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The person who plays music for a party or event.
What is a disc jockey? (DJ)
This is what you call someone who would play music for house parties, clubs, or weddings.
A part of a song that tells the story. When it comes back, it changes.
What is a verse?
This band helped transition hip hop music into the mainstream when they collaborated with Aerosmith.
What is Run DMC?
(#1 on Spotify Playlist)
Walk this Way - Run DMC feat. Aerosmith
A person from old school hip hop who ran the party and spoke over the music.
What is a master of ceremonies or emcee? (MC)
This is the neighborhood where hip hop originated.
What is the Bronx?
What is a chorus?
Hardcore is the style of this rap group, who are famous for coming "Straight Outta Compton."
What is NWA?
(#2 on Spotify Playlist)
Express Yourself by N.W.A.
The equipment DJs would use to spin records and create live loops at parties.
What is a turntable?
Name three elements of old school hip hop culture. (four answers total)
What is sampling, rapping, break dancing, and graffiti?
This form is the most popular way to write a rap song.
What is 16-bar verse?
Will Smith went by this name as a singer in the style of Hip Pop before becoming a TV and movie star. You may know him as "The _____ _____ of ___ ____"
What is the Fresh Prince?
(#3 on Spotify Playlist)
Big Poppa by Notorious BIG (Biggie Smalls)
The term for taking a part of another song and using it in your own.
What is sampling?
This is the reason police supported old school hip hop music.
What is "songs have a positive message and block parties brought the community together?"
This is the special name for a chorus in hip hop and some modern pop music.
What is a hook?
Name this combined style of rap by Rage Against the Machine:
What is rap metal?
Stan by Eminem
This is how breakdancing originated.
DJs realized people like dancing to instrumentals more than the words of funk songs, so they would loop the instrumental breaks. People would dance in the breaks, or breakdance.
Name one old school hip hop artist and one of their songs.
Answers will vary.
The form of this song is ________ ________, which means that there's one story which never ends or repeats throughout the song. Songs with this form have to have an engaging story, message, or flow to keep a listener's attention.
What is free verse?
The heated rivalry between East Coast and West Coast rap stars led to the tragic assassination of these two hip hop artists in 1999.
Who is Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G?
(#5 on Spotify Playlist)
Children's Story by Slick Rick