50 Years of Hip-Hop: How a generation fostered creativity from urban despair and racial barriers
Hip-hop, a subculture and an art movement, was born when urban youth in crime and poverty-ridden neighbourhoods in South Bronx in New York City sought street corners to hang out and found ways to express their despairing selves. In the late 1970s, South Bronx was rocked by a manufacturing decline and an expressway that ended the local businesses. The emerging hip-hop movement gave the youths a recreative space to voice their despair and hardship, which grew to become a global phenomenon. Here's a look at the pioneers
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Salt n Pepa in concert, circa 1988. In 1987, the hip-hop duo Cheryl James and Sandra Denton recruited Deidre Roper to join them as DJ Spinderella and sprung a new name Salt n Pepa and a new single 'Push It' that wrote the group into history as the first female hip-hop act to hit platinum status. Salt n Pepa took on rap machismo, slut-shamers and smooth-talkers with their sensuality-saturated albums that had become the most successful by a female act.
