It seems that hip-hop music is ubiqrutous these days, from popular radio to TV commercials. Whatever your opinion of hip-hop music may be, there is no denying it has impacted pop culture around the world, and shows no signs of slowing down.
現在，從大衆廣播到電視廣告，嘻哈音樂似乎無所不在。不管你對嘻哈音樂的看法怎麼樣，無可否認它已經對世界各地的通俗文化造成了衝擊，並且沒有減弱的跡象。
Hip-hop brings with it its own unique terminology. Rap is the literal action of speaking over a beat. Hip-hop is both a kind of music and a culture, which includes four main elements: emceeing , deejaying , breaking , and graffih art . Along with these are other distinctive. aspects ofhip-hop culture such as language and fashion.
嘻哈風帶來了一些專有術語： 說唱樂 是指配合節奏念文字的.動作。 嘻哈 既是一種音樂，同時也是一種文化，嘻哈文化包含4大要素 MC (隨節奏說唱)、 DJ (轉動唱片及混音)、 霹靂舞 (一種特技般的舞蹈)，和 塗鴉藝術_o除此之外嘻哈文化還有其他一些特殊
Hip-hop has its roots in the African traditions of percussion and oral storytelling. Its modernorigins, however, can be found in New York Citys crime-ridden South Bronx in the early 1970s. Fed up with the insipid disco of the times, youth who were short on money but rich in ingenuity created a new, dynamic art form: verbally competing and chronfcling life in the ghetto by rapping poetry over a beat.
