The History of Urban HipHop for kids

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The History of Urban Hip-Hop for kids
Dr. Keldon Myel Watts presents....

• 1973-present day

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Booker T. Washington Elementary

• School System- Macon County
• For groups of 23-30 2nd and 3rd grade students
  with little if any knowledge pertaining to the
  history of Hip Hop.

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Standards

• AE(3) Music 33. Hip Hop today
• AE(2) Music 34. Music Appreciation in correlation
  to the early 90s
• AE(3) Music 40. Identify relationships between
  music and the other arts as well as disciplines
  outside of the arts

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Primary Learning ObjectivesVia videos student
will

• Learn names of hip-hop pioneers
• Identify various cultural regions of music
• Gain an understand of how lyrics are made to
  rhyme
• Explore the timeline of rap.

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The Beginning of Hip Hop

• 1970, a group called the last poets recorded
  their first Lp entitled The Poets.

An Lp is a type a album
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Hip Hop goes mainstream

• In 1979, a group called The Sugar Hill Gang
  recorded the first rap single to go mainstream
  entitled Rappers Delight

The Sugar Hill Gang are credited with the title
Fathers of Hip-Hop
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Hip Hops First record label

• In 1981, Russell Simmons and Rick Ruben start Def
  Jam, the first all Hip-Hop label.

Russell Simmons is credited with the success of
LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys and Redman
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The Hip Hop community divides.Beef between coast
stir.

• East Coast

• West Coast

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Hip Hop Today

• East Coast artists
• West Coast artists
• The Dirty South Movement.
• The Midwest swing..

Artists such as Bow Wow are the new faces of
todays hip-hop
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The End