Origins
This New York City Borough is the true birthplace of Hip hop.
What is the Bronx, New York?
This element of hip hop requires making drum sounds using only your mouth.
What is beatboxing?
These three instruments can be represented with Pb, Ts, and Ka.
What is the Bass “kick” drum, hi hat, and snare drum?
This DJ had a back to school block party on August 17, 1973 and became known as the Father of Hip Hop.
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
DJs used this device during the 70s to create samples.
What is the digital audio workstation (DAW)?
This decade is known for the birth of hip hop.
What are the 1970s?
The DJ technique that requires moving vinyl records back and forth in a rhythm while it plays.
What is “scratching”?
These three words can be used to practice the beatbox pattern Pb, Ts, Ka, Ts
What is Boots and Cats?
This DJ mastered the technique of scratching and invented two more: the back spin and punch phrasing.
Who is Grandmaster Flash?
The Queen/David Bowie’s song “Under Pressure” was sampled to create this hit.
What is “Ice, Ice Baby”?
This highway was one of the first to be built directly through an urban environment, divided neighborhoods, lowered property values during its construction.
What is the Cross Bronx Expressway?
These are the Four Elements of Hip-Hop
What is Beatboxing, Breakdancing, DJing and MCing?
This man is known as the Original Human Beatbox. He listened to hip hop music outside of a record shop near the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC.
Who is Doug E. Fresh?
The man who rapped the theme to this ‘90s sitcom, “I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 & I yelled to the cabbie, ‘Yo homes, smell ya later!”
Who is Will Smith in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air?
Without getting clearance from the original artist, someone would violate this law if they are using the music to sample.
What is the copyright law?
Hip Hop allowed young people, mainly of African and Latino descent, to express themselves about these topics.
What are social and economic issues, racism, and their lives?
This element of hip hop is going to be an Olympic Sport.
What is Break-dancing?
This music technology was invented to recreate drum patterns without live musicians or looping from another song.
What is the drum machine?
The first hip-hop and rock-n-roll groups to collaborate on a song together.
Who is Run DMC and Aerosmith with “Walk this Way”?
When sampling, musicians used these musical elements from pre-existing music.
What are melody, rhythm, speech, sounds, or entire bars (measures) of music?
This song by the Sugarhill Gang was released in 1979 and is known as the first Hip Hop song in the mainstream.
What is Rapper’s Delight?
These people originally hosted parties and introduced tracks to the dancing audience. They started speaking in rhymes and became the first rappers.
Who are the Master of Ceremonies or “emcees”?
This beatboxing pattern was considered one of our spicy patterns.
What is "Pb Ts Ka Ts Pb Pb Ts Ts Ka Ts Ts Ka"?
or What is "Pb Ts Ka Ts Pb Ts Pb Ts Ka Ts"?
This rapper produced a few movies and starred in them like “Are We There Yet.”
Who is Ice Cube?
Once a musician chose their sample, they could use it/change it by….
What is layering, speeding up, slowing down, repitch, and looping?