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Hip Hop Evolution

7.6TV-MA

SeriesDocumentary20164 Seasons

Hip-Hop today is a global culture that has changed music, dance, fashion, language —and even politics. But where did this worldwide cultural movement begin? We trace hip-hop back to its humble beginnings, when the kids of the Bronx crammed into house parties, rec rooms, and public parks to hear music like they’d never heard it before.

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Episodes

  1. 1The FoundationSep 5, 2016 · 48m · ★ 3.0Bronx-based DJs set Hip-Hop's sonic foundations. MCs, inspired by African American oral traditions, create the modern template for rap music, culminating with the emergence of Hip-Hop's first crew, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
  2. 2From The Underground to The MainstreamSep 12, 2016 · 46m · ★ 3.5Hip-Hop crews in the Bronx and Harlem begin to form around the DJs, but these pioneering groups never record any music. It would take R&B veterans to see the genre’s commercial potential and create Hip-Hop's first hit, "Rapper's Delight."
  3. 3The New GuardSep 19, 2016 · 49m · ★ 3.5Run-DMC ushers in a new era of Hip-Hop. Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin build Hip-Hop's first empire, Def Jam. An unknown producer finds a new way to make beats and launches Hip-Hop's Golden Age, culminating in the epic fury of Public Enemy.
  4. 4The Birth of Gangsta RapSep 26, 2016 · 46m · ★ 4.5Ice-T uses Hip-Hop to reflect the violence of Los Angeles and inspires a new form of Hip-Hop: Gangsta Rap. N.W.A’s first album, Straight Outta Compton, shocks America. After the LA Rebellion, Dr. Dre makes The Chronic, and creates Hip-Hop’s first hardcore pop record
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Hip-Hop today is a global culture that has changed music, dance, fashion, language —and even politics. But where did this worldwide cultural movement begin? We trace hip-hop back to its humble beginnings, when the kids of the Bronx crammed into house parties, rec rooms, and public parks to hear music like they’d never heard it before.

Created by
Darby Wheeler
Genres
Documentary
Status
Ended
First aired
September 5, 2016
Last aired
January 17, 2020
Seasons
4
Episodes
16
Episode length
50m
Language
English
Countries
United States of America, Canada
Networks
HBO, Netflix
Production
Banger Films
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  • Afrika BambaataaSelf
  • Ice-TSelf
  • Ice CubeSelf
  • SShadSelf
  • Pharrell WilliamsSelf
  • JJ DillaSelf (archive footage)
  • Chad HugoSelf
  • YeSelf
  • Missy ElliottSelf
  • TimbalandSelf
  • André 3000Himself

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  • GenerationofSwine★ 1January 13, 2023
    OK, in the title it has the word EVOLUTION. Unfortunately it's broken into regions. East and west and Chicago and Atlanta and... That doesn't work for someone like me that really doesn't follow hip-hop, but loves most music and wants to learn about it's evolution. Here and there you get little beeds on knoweldge, like how it originated from Funk, how a lot of the stars I have heard about came from this or th…Read more

    OK, in the title it has the word EVOLUTION. Unfortunately it's broken into regions. East and west and Chicago and Atlanta and... That doesn't work for someone like me that really doesn't follow hip-hop, but loves most music and wants to learn about it's evolution. Here and there you get little beeds on knoweldge, like how it originated from Funk, how a lot of the stars I have heard about came from this or that club, how it has roots with the Black Panthers... ...but none of that is presented in a way that you can look at the series and understand how it moved to become what it is. I mean, I am from the 90s, I understand the East Coast/West Coast thing. I get that, but I also get that hip-hop had to originate and evolve to even get to that, and that evolution is why I watched the series. It's cool that I learned things about an art form I really don't pay attention to, I just wish they would have covered how hip-hop actually evolved as a whole before they did the regional thing.

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