where did hip hop originated and who were its founders
Hip hop
In the 1970s , an underground urban movement known as `` hip hop '' began to develop in the Bronx , New York City . It focused on emceeing ( or MCing ) over `` breakbeats '' , house parties and neighbourhood block party events , held outdoors . Hip hop music has been a powerful medium for protesting the impact of legal institutions on minorities , particularly police and prisons . Historically , hip hop arose out of the ruins of a post-industrial and ravaged South Bronx , as a form of expression of urban Black and Latino youth , whom the public and political discourse had written off as marginalized communities . Jamaican - born DJ Clive `` Kool Herc '' Campbell pioneered the use of DJing percussion `` breaks '' in hip hop music . Beginning at Herc 's home in a high - rise apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue , the movement later spread across the entire borough . Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting , a spoken type of boastful poetry and speech over music . On August 11 , 1973 DJ Kool Herc was the DJ at his sister 's back - to - school party . He extended the beat of a record by using two record players , isolating the percussion `` breaks '' by using a mixer to switch between the two records . Herc 's experiments with making music with record players became what we now know as breaking or `` scratching '' . 
In the 1970s , an underground urban movement known as `` hip hop '' began to develop in the Bronx , New York City . It focused on emceeing ( or MCing ) over `` breakbeats '' , house parties and neighbourhood block party events , held outdoors . Hip hop music has been a powerful medium for protesting the impact of legal institutions on minorities , particularly police and prisons . Historically , hip hop arose out of the ruins of a post-industrial and ravaged South Bronx , as a form of expression of urban Black and Latino youth , whom the public and political discourse had written off as marginalized communities . Jamaican - born DJ Clive `` Kool Herc '' Campbell pioneered the use of DJing percussion `` breaks '' in hip hop music . Beginning at Herc 's home in a high - rise apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue , the movement later spread across the entire borough . Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting , a spoken type of boastful poetry and speech over music . On August 11 , 1973 DJ Kool Herc was the DJ at his sister 's back - to - school party . He extended the beat of a record by using two record players , isolating the percussion `` breaks '' by using a mixer to switch between the two records . Herc 's experiments with making music with record players became what we now know as breaking or `` scratching '' .
In the 1970s , an underground urban movement known as `` hip hop '' began to develop in the Bronx , New York City . Historically , hip hop arose out of the ruins of a post-industrial and ravaged South Bronx , as a form of expression of urban Black and Latino youth , whom the public and political discourse had written off as marginalized communities .
In the 1970s , an underground urban movement known as `` hip hop '' began to develop in the Bronx , New York City . Historically , hip hop arose out of the ruins of a post-industrial and ravaged South Bronx , as a form of expression of urban Black and Latino youth , whom the public and political discourse had written off as marginalized communities .