Hip Hop

originated in the South Bronx section of New York City around the mid 1970’s. It been strong

for years in black and Puerto Rican communities in New York and has recently started gaining

success from widespread exposure. A large part of Hip Hop is rapping the origination of this gets

its roots from a Jamaican art form known as toasting. Artists like James Brown, The Last Poets,

and Gil Scott Heron along with many others and a popular black activist H. Rap Brown have

helped influence rap to its present form. The art of

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