If African-Americans contribute the world's greatest contribution, it's certainly not drug poverty and crime, it's hip-hop culture.

Hip-hop originated on the streets of New York in the 1970s, where unemployment and crime were so high that in 1979 alone, there were more than a million crimes, big and small, and last year that number was about 400,000。。。。。。

That's why hip-hop culture is rife with violence, crime, and the desire and protest for freedom. After decades of development, hip-hop culture has quickly become popular around the world. Now there are many young people in China who like hip-hop culture.

Of course, there is never real hip-hop in China.

As we all know, the high crime rate in the African-American neighborhood has led to the fact that hip-hop singers and dancers often come out of an extremely harsh growth environment, and there are not a few who are raised by their mothers in the absence of their fathers. They have witnessed bloody killings in the streets, and even had the experience of selling drugs on the streets themselves at a young age.

Just like the famous rapper 50 CENT, that guy is directly a gang leader, why is his voice so unique? because he has been shot in the face a few times, and the air leaks。。。。。。

For these people, hip-hop is a haven of suffering on the one hand, and a way to describe their own lives, and the lyrics are naturally as dangerous as the streets. And the people living at the bottom choose the most direct way to show off after making a fortune through music, just like the oppressed spring finally bursts out freely, how deep the resentment of the once poor is, how exaggerated the show-off after the rich.

As a professor at the University of Southern California put it: If you want to better understand the experience of black people today, then listening to DMX's album "It's Dark And Hell Is Hot" is definitely more effective than listening to Martin Luther King, Jr. speak.

You still engage in hip-hop music without gang identity, criminal record, etc.? Just like rap big Eminem's autobiographical movie "Eight Miles", which is regarded as the 'film and television bible' by many people who like hip-hop rap, but they all ignore the battle where Eminem became a god in the end, and the content of Eminem's attack on his opponent is very simple: his opponent has a wealthy family, attends a private school, and his parents are happily married。。。。。。 After saying these three sentences, the opponent turned around and left.

You have a happy family, rich and embarrassed to say that you are a hip-hop singer?

As a cultural form born on the streets of the slums of the Stars and Stripes, hip-hop has been free and crude from the very beginning, and has been linked to violence, drugs, sex, gang fighting, racial conflicts, crime, and alcohol。。。。。。

In fact, there is a very good hip-hop culture in China, and there are many singers and dancers, who can wear exaggerated music, write good rhymes, and make up good rhythms, but they are always so interesting as real hip-hop. The reason? Nothing's life.

Do you think sleeping with a few girls and sucking two sips of ice is hip-hop? Okay, that's okay, you can try it in Huaxia and put it into a song? Isn't it an example?

And the real hip-hop culture is full of life.

It's like the famous hip-hop group Black Eyed Pea has a song called "The Apl Song", and the lyrics in it read: 'How do you feel when you have to run all day to get enough to eat? Farmland is watered. The road that can stride for yourself is actually around you. It's like a river that is cultivated as a land for fishing and hunting. People help each other whenever they have the ability, and we make it happen------ from nothing, and that's the salvation I get when I get home. ’

Anyway, the whole song is about a black man who has been away from home for four years and the hardships of life, but when you listen to the beat of this song, you don't feel it at all, but full of optimism and hope.

It is for this reason that hip-hop was loved by young people around the world in the twentieth century, and everyone tried to integrate hip-hop culture into their own cultural environment for localization, but few succeeded.

Even Eminem, a white rapper who is now in full swing, was able to fit into the circle because he grew up in the slums with black people.

The Chinese culture is a subtle way of expressing beauty. Do you think the Chinese people like 'when they meet with golden wind and jade dew, they will win but there are countless people in the world'? Or do you like 'wife, I haven't seen you for a long time, but I miss me, come, let's have a bang'?

And these are two completely different paths from the-for-tat emotional catharsis of hip-hop music, many people now like hip-hop and are keen on hip-hop, but this does not mean that they identify with the cultural form of hip-hop.

More often than not, they just encounter an outlet for catharsis during their youthful rebellious period, and once the wind of youth blows, they will still integrate into the entire social system, and once again like a screw and gear, to live and work step by step.

Especially in this Chinese entertainment industry, it is a bit sick: singers can be popular without producing works, as long as they are beautiful and have scandals, they are enough to be popular for half the sky。。。。。。

I don't dare to talk about those things in the Chinese entertainment industry, and if I say it, I have to play a mosaic, and Tete is dirty!

And this kind of environment is originally spurned by hip-hop culture, do you want to produce hip-hop culture on such soil? I didn't see the Chinese rap big hot dog, when I first debuted, the lyrics named one by one, 'I bought a watch last year', and now?

Like Gai Ye, one of the double champions of a hip-hop show, after winning the championship, the reputation is really good, donating the championship bonus, not abandoning his girlfriend before becoming famous, RAP lyrics have the charm of rivers and lakes, and even shouting 'I love Huaxia' in the CCTV program;

Alas, but there is no dirty talk and no DISS hip-hop, is that still real hip-hop?

Hip-hop culture is also made up of many different factors, such as hip-hop music, graffiti, hip-hop style clothing, hip-hop dance, and so on.

Speaking of which, African-Americans are a race with notes and beats in their blood, and no matter what time it is, they cannot erase their pursuit and yearning for happiness. Every night on the streets, you can see the exaggerated but energetic dancing and simple but rhythmic music of African-American youth, which is something in their bones.

And hip-hop has been around for a long time than hip-hop music. There are also a variety of styles, from the earliest 'locking' (lock dance), to 'breaking' (break dancing), 'poppin' (mechanical dance), 'punking' (throwing dance), 'jazz' (jazz dance), 'raggae (reggae dance) and so on.

And the broken car with music that Xiao Peng saw, there was more than one, to be precise, it was a convoy, several cars were driving music in the community to swagger through the city, and after the whole community ran over and over, all the cars gathered in one place, stopped at an intersection, and the rest of the cars turned off the stereo, only one was still playing music, and the people who got out of the car were all wearing clown masks.

This is a genre of hip-hop dance, called 'Krumping' (clown dance), which is a kind of dance that combines clown culture with hip-hop culture, and it is also a fairly young dance genre in the hip-hop genre, which was just born in the 90s of the last century, and its origin is Los Angeles.

The original founder of this dance was a clown named Thomas Johnson, nicknamed 'Tommy the Clown', who was once a drug dealer and was unsurprisingly arrested in prison. When he was released, he made a living by playing the clown on the various bodies he gave people. In '92, he danced this dance at a friend's daughter's birthday party to enhance the clown's performance. And then it was a big hit. It has caught the attention of many hip-hop stars. They also used this dance in their music videos or live concerts, and the clown dance began to become popular, and there are now 60 or 70 clown dance groups in California alone.

Later, an African-American dancer, Russell Ferguson, appeared in the sixth season of the popular variety show "Dance in the Woods" in the Stars and Stripes, and finally won the championship with his Krumping dance on it, bringing this clown dance into the public eye. In "Good Dance in China", Jin Xing directly invited Russell to China, so that many Chinese people also know this dance.

However, this dance is also the most popular dance among all hip-hop dances. Not only in China, but also in the world, clown dance is also a subdivision of a small circle.

In addition to the fact that the clown dance is extremely young, it is also related to the clown dance itself, he has a high threshold, and the requirements for physical fitness are extremely high, not to mention the technical and aesthetic problems.

Clown dances have a lot of movements, and it is difficult to achieve the desired visual effect without careful control of the muscles. These trainings are usually after a long period of training, and unlike other dances, some small basic rhythms will produce results, and everyone can play for all ages.

And because the clown dance is very young, most people do not have a good dance cultivation, and even its founders themselves do not have a deep and clear understanding of this dance, how to develop this dance?

The most important thing is that the aesthetic of the clown dance is also very niche, those who like this dance think it's cool and frivolous, and those who don't like it think it's a dancer going crazy plus a bunch of shit。。。。。。

But these problems are in Los Angeles? These are non-existent! This is the birthplace of clown dancing, where clown dancing has a strong mass base.

Being able to observe the original clown dance up close here is also a great experience.