Pre-Hip Hop Roots
The foundational movement concept that became the base for many street styles before hip-hop
What is Rocking (Body Rocking)?
The part of the music that break dancers preferred because it had no lyrics.
What is the break?
The DJ known as the “Father of Hip-Hop.”
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
The organization created to bring peace between gangs in the Bronx.
What is The Universal Zulu Nation?
The famous event known as the birth of hip-hop.
What is Kool Herc’s Back-to-School Jam?
Two cities where rocking spread after becoming popular.
What are New York and Los Angeles?
Kool Herc’s innovation allowed DJs to repeat the break continuously.
What is the Merry-Go-Round technique?
The DJ who created the Universal Zulu Nation.
Who is Afrika Bambaataa?
The Bronx gang Afrika Bambaataa originally helped reform.
What are the Black Spades?
The party that launched hip-hop was celebrating this family event.
What is Cindy Campbell’s 16th birthday?
The famous artist who helped bring funk dance culture and rocking to the West Coast.
Who is James Brown?
Grandmaster Flash improved Herc’s break looping by adding this technique to smooth transitions.
What is Backspin / Quick Mix theory?
The DJ known for technological innovation and advanced mixing techniques.
Who is Grandmaster Flash?
The four values promoted by Zulu Nation.
What are Peace, Love, Unity, and Having Fun?
The decade when hip-hop officially became mainstream music.
What is the 1980s?
In the 1960s New York music culture split into these two Harlem communities.
What are Black Harlem and Spanish Harlem?
This DJ technique manipulates the record itself to create new rhythmic sounds.
What is Scratching?
The name given to the trio that shaped hip-hop culture.
What is The Holy Trinity of Hip Hop?
The fifth element of hip-hop that focuses on awareness and education.
What is Knowledge?
According to one story, the phrase “hip hop” came from mimicking this motion.
What is a soldier marching?
The blended rhythm created when Afro-Cuban music mixed with Latin influences in New York during the late 1960s.
What is Bugalu?
This DJ technique involved dropping short sound effects like horn hits over a beat.
What is Punch phrasing?
The rap group formed by Grandmaster Flash in 1979 that helped bring hip-hop into mainstream media.
Who are Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?
The five elements of hip-hop culture
DJing, MCing, Breaking, Graffiti, and Knowledge
One of the earliest rap songs that helped popularize the term “hip-hop.”
What is Rapper’s Delight?