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
Police, neighbours, and fans follow the funeral caravan for rap artist Notorious BIG as it passes the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Clinton Hill, where he grew up, dropped out of school, sold drugs, and first started rapping. Among the most influential artists of 1990s gangsta rap, Biggie's rapid success was credited with single-handedly reviving the N Y-based "East Coast" hip-hop recording labels, which had until then been overtaken in prominence by the "West Coast" hip-hop labels based in Los Angeles. He was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997.
