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
Eminem and Dr Dre at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, New York City. Dr Dre's legacy is a summation of the extent to which hip-hop has become a producers' medium, as a creative and a commercial force. Dr Dre's protégé Eminem became perhaps the world's biggest pop star when his 'Lose Yourself' won the Academy Award for best song. Eminem's '8 Mile' (2002), the loosely autobiographical film in which he starred, enjoyed enormous popular and critical success. Hip-hop had become the best-selling genre of popular music in the United States by the early 2000s. The genre had truly become pop music.
