From East to West to southern trap, 50 years of hip-hop #hiphop

en.rfi.fr August 11, 2023 hip hop
From East to West to southern trap, 50 years of hip-hop #hiphop

New York (AFP) – Five decades after a Bronx block party ushered in hip-hop's 'Big Bang' moment, the culture-shifting genre is celebrating its 50th birthday Friday. What's now broadly referred to as old school hip-hop is the genre's earliest commercially recorded music, and typically refers to songs put out from approximately 1979 to 1983.

Five decades after a Bronx block party ushered in hip-hop's 'Big Bang' moment, the culture-shifting genre is celebrating its 50th birthday Friday. Read more

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