Hip Hop, Rap and Grime Conventions

 Hip Hop, Rap and Grime Conventions

Hip hop culture as a whole is made up of:         



1. MCing



2. Graffiti



3.Beatboxing

4.Breakdancing

5. DJing

All these elements make up the hip hop culture and its popular all over the world.

Clothing and apparel

Hip hop stylised clothing is very typical of its form. Baggy trousers, bright t-shirts or colourful hoodies are worn however this can vary depending on the individual. Skinny jeans and high top trainers are a new introduction. Accessories are an important thing in hip hop culture, bright, shiny jewellery such as chains, rope chains, rings and pierces known as 'bling' is very popular. Hats are worn a lot, bright colours mostly with bandanas or du rags worn underneath. A very important thing is footwear. Footwear can vary in colour and design but is a big ingredient in hip hop style. Audiences normally prefer designer labels but not always. You would normally find that female clothing can range from either a pair of baggy trousers with a fitted tops or skinny jeans with baggy tops. This also means that females often wear male hoodies and t-shirts. But on the other hand men always wear an assortment.

UK Rap, hip hop and grime's lyrical content usually consists of the artists' individuality, the political situation, life stuggles, street crime undergowing in their area, love or dreams. An improtant originality the UK brings is their british accent. In the early years artist adapted the american accent typical of the hip hop style but originality grew when all artist began show off the british culture.

Although the target audience this genre of music is aimed at is 16+ all ages pretty much enjoy it. Therefore, as our song 'When we make it' is typical of the UK hip hop genre we are aiming at a similar target audience.



UK HIP HOP RESEARCH

UK HIP HOP RESEARCH
The song we are using in our music video is titled ‘When we Make it’ by Krysis, Crucial and Phantom is categorised under the genre UK Hip hop. UK hip hop originated from the New York hip hop scene, similar to grime. One of the first UK Hip hop record labels that were responsible for recognition in underground UK hip hop artists was created in 1986. It was called Music of life by Simon Harris. From this label Derek B was discovered, he was the first UK rapper to become a huge success in the charts.  From this a whole variety of artists emerged and the introduction to electronic music was greatly influenced by hip hop and UK garage. Undergoing this, an upheaval of UK Grime rappers emerged from this, to name a few:

 

Bashy

 

Kano



Tinie Tempah

Recent commercial artists such as Ndubz:

Dizzie Rascal:

and Tinchy Stryder :

 were all heavily influenced by the UK Hip hop scene too however, they are now categorized under the pop genre. Seeing as hip hop as a whole is greatly loved and favoritised by the public and that the UK hip hop scene was influenced by the American hip hop scene’ together the similar scenes are heavily influential on their audience which results to the hip hop scene being successful as a whole.

Even though the majority of the UK hip hop scene is made up of male artist, this is a sexist stereotype that is publicized. Female artist have a great contribution to the UK hip hop scene. Artists that rap and sing such as:

Estelle:  

and Ms. Dynamite: 

both have great chart success; they’ve defeated the sexist stereotype and have become hugely popular.

Artisit

We were perviously seraching for artists to base our music video upon. We discovered there was an artisit within the group so we dedcided to base it upon a song he produced alongside others. ''When we make it''
Our next step is to complete our treatment.

Intro

During the next few months my group and i will be producing a music video for our A2 Media project. In a group of four we have all taken up one of the following roles : producer, editor, director and cinematographer. My main role i am taking on is cinematographer. The blogs i will be posting will be posting will take you on the journey of the how's,what's and when's of our finished project.