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Hip Hop Evolution

Name: Hip Hop Evolution
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016
Rating: 7.5

75% Match2016TV-MA4 Seasons7.5

Hip-Hop today is a global culture that has changed music, dance, fashion, language —and even politics. But where did this worldwide cultural movement begin? We trace hip-hop back to its humble beginnings, when the kids of the Bronx crammed into house parties, rec rooms, and public parks to hear music like they’d never heard it before.

Starring Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Shad
By Darby Wheeler

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The FoundationBronx-based DJs set Hip-Hop's sonic foundations. MCs, inspired by African American oral traditions, create the modern template for rap music, culminating with t48m
From The Underground to The MainstreamHip-Hop crews in the Bronx and Harlem begin to form around the DJs, but these pioneering groups never record any music. It would take R&B veterans to see th46m
The New GuardRun-DMC ushers in a new era of Hip-Hop. Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin build Hip-Hop's first empire, Def Jam. An unknown producer finds a new way to make beats 49m
The Birth of Gangsta RapIce-T uses Hip-Hop to reflect the violence of Los Angeles and inspires a new form of Hip-Hop: Gangsta Rap. N.W.A’s first album, Straight Outta Compton, shocks A46m