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Singapore hip hop. Singapore hip hop is a collective of hip hop music, graffiti arts, deejaying/turntablism, break dancing and beatboxing, which are performed by hip hop enthusiasts who are of Singapore descent mainly from the four races of the metropolis; the Chinese, Malays, Indians and the Eurasian. This movement began in the mid-1980s ...
Hip-Hop. Street dance was born out of the ghettos in the late 1970s in Bronx, New York City. The late 1970s marked a period of social and cultural change and Hip-Hop was seen as an opportunity for creative expression as it served as a 'voice' for the unrepresented and invisible communities through music and dance. [8]
The group dropped their third album No Mercy in 1994. The album made it to Number 45. It had two singles, "Hip Hop Ride" and "Mad Props". "Hip Hop Ride" peaked at Number 21, and “Mad Props” made it to Number 19. In 1995 they dropped their last album I'll Make U Famous. This was the group's first album after being dropped by the record label ...
This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]
The Philippines is known to have had the first hip-hop music scene in Asia since the early 1980s, largely due to the country's historical connections with the United States The intimate relationship between hip-hop culture and the large Filipino American community along the United States West Coast naturally resulted in the exportation of rap music back to the Philippines.
The Lockers (originally named The Campbell Lockers) was a dance group formed by Toni Basil and Don "Campbellock" Campbell in 1971. Active throughout the 1970s, they were pioneers of street dance. Campbell is the founder of the locking dance style, and originally, locking was called The Campbellock—a style that was based on the dance and song ...
Philippine All Stars. The Philippine All-Stars is a Filipino Hip-hop dance group from the Philippines and the pioneer of Pinoy Hip-hop. [ 1][ 2] They won the 2006 and 2008 World Hip Hop Dance Championships. [ 3] Hip-hop community regarded All-Star as one of the most jaw-dropping crews to have ever existed. [ 4][ 5]
The history of hip-hop dances encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles, such as uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. African Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. African Americans in California created locking, roboting ...