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  • The hip hop mixtape – cool music, cool sounds!
    The idea of creating the mixtape goes way back into the 70’s, when adequate equipment became accessible to the wide public. Basically, it was a specific collection of tunes recorded onto a compact audio cassette. This could happen on a various scale. For example, a friend could make you a mixtape of songs from a particular genre or with a particular meaning; similarly, a certain person could, against copyright laws, commercialize mixtapes of various content within certain communities for quick f
  • Hip hop – the promotion of violence or a social message?
    Since its creation (in the 1970s in New York), hip hop has been accused of many things. One of the accusations was that it instigates at violence, promiscuity, misogyny and alcohol and drug use. Are the accusers right?
  • Hip hop – more than music, a lifestyle
    Hip hop is a cultural movement which originated from New York in the 1970s. Rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti art are considered the main components of hip hop culture. Hip hop music style consists of a rhythmic style of speaking (rap) over backing beats which are played by a DJ.

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