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Music and culture movement

Tate, Greg. "Music and Culture Movement." Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 05 June 2016.

                Hip hop originated in mostly African American economically depressed South Bronx neighborhoods. In the late 1970’s deejaying, turntabling, rhyming and MCing was popular. As the hip-hop movement began to expand the origin of dancing and rapping came about. Rap first came to national attention in the United States with the release of the Sugarhill Gang’s song “Rapper’s Delight” (1979) on the independent African American-owned label Sugar Hill. Within just weeks of them realising the song it became a chart topping song and also helped define rap music.  In the mid-1980s the next wave of rappers, the new school, came to light. At the forefront was Run-D.M.C., a trio of middle-class African Americans who fused rap with hard rock, defined a new style of hip dress, and became staples on MTV as they brought rap to a mainstream audience. Run-D.M.C. recorded for Profile, one of several new labels that took advantage of the growing market for rap music.