1. Hip Hop Day 1

2. 1 st and 2 nd Thought: What’s your favorite hip-hop song, Or your favorite line? Write it down in your binder And please tell us why! Write your answer as a rhyme And make sure that it flows! We will rap it for the class So tell us what you know! A starter, if you need it: “It all started back when I was __” DJ Kool Herc Says:

3. What’s the plan, Drake? Yo, our goal for today is: “considering different ideas of the origins of hip-hop as a counterculture” 1.) What is hip-hop? 2.) BORN IN DA BRONX 3.) “HIP-HOP DID NOT BEGIN HOW YOU THINK IT DID” 4.) “THE EMERGENCE OF HIP-HOP” 5.) WRITING: REFLECTION VERSES

4. What is hip-hop? Think: music, clothing, food, language, history, etc. Give examples! What is NOT hip-hop? Write your answer down.

5. Turn and Talk Share your answer with your neighbor. What do you agree on? What do you disagree on? Be prepared to share out!

6. Music

7. Graffiti

8. Fashion

9. Where did Hip-Hop come from? It depends who you ask…. …West Africa? …The Great Migration? …Bob Dylan? …Gil Scot-Heron? …DJ Kool Herc? One thing everyone agrees on is that….

10. “IF IT WASN’T FOR THE BRONX THIS RAP SH*T PROLLY NEVER WOULD BE GOING ON! SO TELL ME WHERE YOU FROM? UPTOWN BABY UPTOWN BABY WE GETS DOWN, BABY FOR THE CROWN, BABY” HIP-HOP: BORN IN DA BRONX

11. “Hip-Hop Did Not Begin How You Think it Did”

12. “Hip-hop was born in the neighborhood, where young people gathered in parks, on playgrounds, and on street corners, to speak poetry over mechanical sounds and borrowed melodies. Rapping and DJ-ing were at the center of this emerging culture, but hip-hop was always bigger than just the music. Hip-hop was also break dancing, the gymnastic dance style that valued improvised, angular athleticism over choreographed fluidity. And hip-hop was fashion: hats, jackets, gold chains, brand sneakers. Hip-hop was graffiti, too-a new form of expression that employed spray paint as the medium and subway walls as the canvas. The police called it vandalism; the people called it art…”

13. “From the beginning, hip-hop was aggressive and oppositional, a break from the musical traditions it followed. Jazz had refused to be on time, rock and roll had refused to be quiet, and hip-hop refused to be melodic. Rappers didn’t have a band, they had a turntable; the music was not about the skillful arrangement of instruments but about the skillful production of sounds. When rap music included traditional melodies, they were more often compositions that others had made, “samples” from funk or R&B, borrowed from black music predecessors like James Brown. Most hip-hop music today is made up of more than the rapper and a DJ that made straight “rap” music back in the day— the most popular songs have a hook, a catchy chorus that breaks up the rapped verses. But then as now, hip-hop music is about the manipulation of sounds, the layering of beats, bass lines, sound effects, the voice of the MC, the melody of the hook.” EXCERPT FROM: “THE EMERGENCE OF HIP-HOP” By Claudia Calhoun http://www.paleycenter.org/the-emergence-of-hip-hop/ http://www.paleycenter.org/the-emergence-of-hip-hop/

14. Reflection: Verses Write your own hip-hop verses that tells these stories: 1.How did hip-hop enter your life? 2.How did hip-hop get started? 3.How do you think hip-hop effects you and society? Use a consistent rhythm: Something you can hum: ex. “ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum” Rhymes go at the end of the line, and can also happen in the middle of lines.

15. Examples from John 1. HOW HIP-HOP ENTERED MY LIFE It all started back in ‘95 When Dr. Dre came in my life I heard his song, it made me scream Him and Snoop were the A-team 1. HOW HIP-HOP ENTERED MY LIFE It all started back in ‘95 When Dr. Dre came in my life I heard his song, it made me scream Him and Snoop were the A-team I never heard that beat before And hooks so fresh and so hardcore Me and my best friend named Mark We’d play “The Chronic” in the park I never heard that beat before And hooks so fresh and so hardcore Me and my best friend named Mark We’d play “The Chronic” in the park Then came Pac, then Biggie and Jay Then Slim, LL, and House of Pain Outkast and Kendrick and Biz Markie And Nas, the poet of NYC. Then came Pac, then Biggie and Jay Then Slim, LL, and House of Pain Outkast and Kendrick and Biz Markie And Nas, the poet of NYC. 2. HOW HIP-HOP GOT STARTED Some say it all started in the Bronx with Herc And Herc did the work with the verses first Rap parties uptown on the BX blocks DJs, MCs, and the party don’t stop I say it wasn’t one, or two, or three That helped hip-hop rule NYC It was ordinary people like you and me Their voices shaped society 2. HOW HIP-HOP GOT STARTED Some say it all started in the Bronx with Herc And Herc did the work with the verses first Rap parties uptown on the BX blocks DJs, MCs, and the party don’t stop I say it wasn’t one, or two, or three That helped hip-hop rule NYC It was ordinary people like you and me Their voices shaped society Now throw your hands up in the air And wave ‘em all around like you just don’t care If you love hip-hop, now’s the time To write your own mad funky lines Now throw your hands up in the air And wave ‘em all around like you just don’t care If you love hip-hop, now’s the time To write your own mad funky lines

16. Reflection: Verses Write your own hip-hop verses that tells these stories: PICK 2 of the following: 1.How did hip-hop enter your life? 2.How did hip-hop get started? 3.How do you think hip-hop effect you and society? Use a consistent rhythm: Something you can hum: “ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum” Rhymes go at the end of the line, and can also happen in the middle of lines.

17. Homework! Finish your verses for homework! Record yourself saying the verses out loud – use your smartphone or the library computers upstairs! Submit the typed verses and audio recordings to John and Andy: John: jms2397@tc.columbia.edujms2397@tc.columbia.edu Andy: andy@harvestcollegiate.organdy@harvestcollegiate.org Due next class!