Open classification: Music, culture, art, hip-hop and DJ hip-hop are cultural terms, including rap, graffiti, street dance, streetball, B-BOX and DJ. It is said that singing originated in the 1960s, while Hip-Hop as a musical understanding originated in the early 1970s. Its predecessor is RAP (sometimes with a little R(B)). Literally, Hip-Hop is Hip, Hop is hop, and together it is Hip-waking. It originally refers to the budding hip-hop (that is, we used to talk about break dancing), and then it gradually developed into a huge concept-the hip-hop culture we are talking about now also includes those loose clothes, heavy pure gold ornaments, and "What's wrong with YoYo?" "Oral habits-in short, it is the lifestyle and their" style "of black people in poor neighborhoods in the United States. The origin of hip-hop can be summarized by one word "poor". Why do you have to wear a bigger size? In addition to facilitating sports, most black families have a large population and low income, so the clothes worn by older brothers will be worn by younger brothers, forming a style of giant clothes; Why is there graffiti? This thing was originally a symbol of dividing the sphere of influence between gangs in the block, and later it became more and more exquisite and developed into folk art; Why is there street dance? Because they can't afford to go to the ballroom, and the problem of racial discrimination still exists at that time, they may not be able to have fun in the white ballroom if they have money; Why are pure hip-hop works dominated by black and dirty words? Because these black street youths have no future and hope, they hate much more than love. history

The so-called street dance is the most popular type of street dance. From the perspective of dance, it can be divided into two categories: new school and old school. How to distinguish these two types? We can distinguish them by age, action or music type. In fact, hip hop is the floorboard of all kinds of hip hop.

In fact, what we call break dancing or old school is also a kind of hip-hop. This old-school dance includes lock (lock dance), popinG (mechanical dance), break (break dance) and WAvE (current) (the famous group of this break dance style is Rock Steady Crew). He originated from the impromptu dance movements of American street dancers. Most of these street dancers are black or Mexican. Perhaps it is the so-called "entertainment for the poor". Most of these popular street dances originated in Brooklyn, new york, USA (this area is full of poor blacks or Mexicans). These black and Mexican children mix and dance in the streets all day, naturally forming various factions and naturally developing different styles in the dance.

The evolution of street dance

The key to the evolution from the old school to the new school can be traced back to the music of the early old school, which has a very fast beat to match these breakthrough movements. Then, with the evolution of hip-hop music, people began to understand that breakinG is not suitable for these new hip-hop music (because the so-called new hip-hop music is slow, if you do some movements like cars or footwork in this slow hip-hop music, you will feel that there is no explosive force at all. Even lost the feeling of dancing. ) At this time, the dances of the old school and the new school began to separate. Around 1986, the dance steps of the new school are very simple, such as the well-known "Running Man", which can be seen in the previous video of MC Hammer and bobby brown ... Maybe we can call this "explosive" hip-hop dance at that time funk dance.

The emergence of new hip-hop schools

But from now on, these hip-hop dances, which were all the rage during the period of MC HAMMER and bobby brown, have gradually become old-fashioned, because at the beginning of 1992, a black dance group called MOP TOP (composed of Henry Link) appeared. Loose joints. BuddhStretch)。 They developed a new hip-hop style. I call it original hip-hop. Unlike MC Hammer and bobby brown's big moves, explosive and large-scale movements. Break dancing has no gymnastics on the ground. His unique style is that he pays attention to the coordination of the body (we call it rhythm). He attaches importance to the rhythm of the upper body and adds a lot of hand movements. He's not like those old hip-hop anymore. Look at various movements and footwork movements. Maybe Henry was just an unknown street dancer at first. But when Michael Jackson's Remabe the time MTv appeared, everyone saw what I called in-situ dancing for the first time. This new dance style appeared on MTv, the king of pop music in the world. Immediately set off a wave. We dare not say what made Mr. Henry a hit. But the dance in The Times of Remaby is his masterpiece. Later, in Mary Kelly's R&lover song MTv, we saw a group of black people dancing strangely on a prairie. These dances are a mixture of hip hop, lock and pop. Wave (. B-style hip-hop music. It's hard for us to believe what we see. It was difficult for us to determine what kind of dance it was at that time. However, it is a very important section in the history of the development of the new school of hip hop, and it is the origin and "culprit" of the new school sweeping the world.

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Elite force's Henry Link (right), Matsue (middle) and Fo Shen (left) also served as referees MOP TOP second and fourth episodes of Japanese Dance Music.

The mature stage of new hip-hop

The so-called new hip hop. I gave him a definition that different types of dances are connected in series, a hip-hop or R &；; B. (This is also a form in the early stage of new learning. ) We can see that in this R&lover, this group of black dance companies led by Henry made incomprehensible dance moves. They put the fast-paced locking dance in R&; B's slow dance rhythm is expressed with a new feeling. They don't do this kind of action that must express locking like nunchakus. They simplify many locking actions. And they use the standard hip-hop left and right rhythm to express POPING (machine dance) and lock (lock dance). Waves (currents) are added to the dance from time to time. Simply put, it is to interpret these old dance steps with new feelings. Immediately, the new single Jingle Jingle released by the famous Japanese hip-hop group and singer ZOO also used this new school hip-hop to express the dance in MTv. Inadvertently ... this new hip-hop style has swept the world.

Later, slowly, this Henry worked as a dance director in Mariah Carey's songs Fantasy and Recent Honey, followed by TLC's song Creep, a popular but disbanded women's hip-hop group, and MTV of the movie MIB. We gradually found that this kind of hip-hop has begun to mature. (Of course, Henry can also be seen in these MTVs. Some time ago, the most famous MTV was TlC's Waterfall, and the action of "magically shaking shoulders" in MTV made the new Hip-Hop enter another new stage.

Now the new school street dance

I have to admire the Japanese mind. When this new school street dance became popular in Japan, the Japanese developed another dance style of their own. Similarly, this is also incomprehensible to everyone. These Japanese hip-hop dancers began to dance new hip-hop with old-school music. The origin of the new school is to express the old dance with a new musical style. It is a strange thing to perform new dances with the old music style now.

In action, the hip-hop of the new school has changed greatly recently, especially after adding WAvE (current), it has become more irregular. From the audience's point of view, it seems that the dancers of these new dances are all polio patients, because their bodies are more distorted and there is no so-called rule in the dance.

Street dance is also regional.

We can be divided into two types: new york style and LA style. Things in these two fields are polarized. New york style, for example, is the body distortion and various hip-hop styles. Maybe new york is Henry's base camp. Therefore, the hip-hop style in this area is naturally more inclined to Henry's style. It is not difficult to imagine that it is a black leisure style, with primitive dance and strange body distortion, as well as the assembly strings of lock, POPING and WAvE.

The L.A.-style Hip-Hop inherits and continues the popular hip-hop of MC HAMMER and bobby brown. The variability of big movements and steps also maintains its explosive characteristics. It's just that many new tricks have been added to the movement changes. Because hip-hop is divided into these two factions, many dancers or magazine media no longer collectively refer to them as hip-hop dances. They call new york-style hip-hop a new school, and LA-style hip-hop a street dance.

What exactly is new hip hop?

In a word, the new hip-hop includes all kinds of hip-hops, including lOCKING, popinG, WAvE and MC HAMMER, the rhythm of bobby brown. It's just that there is no shadow of break dancing in the new hip-hop. As mentioned earlier, it combines various hip-hop styles. Perhaps we can say that it is a comprehensive dance. But now the new dance has a wider range, not only including popin' and boogie, but also a wider range of materials! Some people abroad think that "the movements of the new school are much simpler than the windmills and head-shaking in the 1990s", but the movements of the new school also need skills, similar to the concept of footwork in break dancing. Although it is very casual, it also contains many skills. The reason is the same. But which is better, the old school or the new school? We really can't make a distinction or comparison. But I don't know when the hip-hop with updated style will appear again. At that time ... our popular new school will become history and another old school.

Hip-Hop is a subculture with anti-cultural tendency, and its destructiveness and folk nature run counter to our traditional popular culture. But from the current situation, it has not only become an important part of mainstream culture, but also is rapidly rising, spreading and developing. A reasonable explanation is that in our increasingly metaphysical era, life and entertainment need not only emotion, innocence, nobility and seriousness, but also the shameless style of being funny, heartless, inferior and daring to despise everything-I'm telling the truth, our cultural life really lacks these. If China's Hip-Hop has so-called hope or development direction, I believe we should start from these places and enter the market in a way eager to flatter mainstream music. I'm afraid it's hard to make a difference. At present, the main hip-hop participants and audiences are relatively young, and most of them were born around 1980. These Hip-Hopers, who have been exposed to hip-hop culture since middle school in 1990s, will grow into the first generation of hip-hop in China. As they grow up, I believe that China's hip-hop culture will be more and more recognized, just as rock music will no longer be regarded as alien after more than ten years, just as Japanese comics and video games are gradually emerging. Hip-hop is a culture, not just something. It's not that wearing a big POLO shirt, an ape hat, dunk shoes and a big chain around your neck is hip-hop, but more importantly, spirit. Hip-Hop: Hip means butt, and Hop means jumping. Hip-hop music originated in the 1970s. B (rhythm and blues), but with R &；; B is completely different, emphasizing the pure dance music of D.J.Remix technique in the ballroom. In the 1980s, this kind of music formed rap music by adding Scratch (turning the record upside down intermittently, giving out the special effect of rubbing with a stylus) and the street rhyme unique to black people. So it can be said that Hip-Hop is the predecessor of Rap, but today these two words can often be mixed, but Rap emphasizes rap and Hip-Hop tends to refer to Beat. Graffiti: Graffiti, dictionary analysis, is to draw or write on public walls. Nowadays, the tradition of graffiti painting and street form has had a certain influence on artists all over the world. As a sales tool, the early promotion of hip-hop dance always invited graffiti artists to design leaflets and posters. However, in the 1980s, hip-hop music was widely introduced and accepted by the public. For a time, Hip-Hop did not talk about selling culture, nor did it introduce early graffiti forms. Graffiti, whether it is a special skill or a painting technique, also has an influence on art forms, such as the angry graffiti of the Mexican revolution. Nowadays, in American cities where gangs are rampant, violent warnings and threats between gangs are also conveyed through graffiti.