hip hop
noun
Hip Hop Culture
Hip Hop Culture first came about in the late 1970s in the poorest districts of New York City by African American and Latino teenagers. For Hip Hop culture young people gathered in parks, playgrounds and street corners. The Hip Hop scene brought about break dancing and graffiti art. Many of these young teenagers were jobless, but managed to find work as DJs in discos where they learnt how to use dj mixer's to play records etc. Mostly they would DJ at free block parties in their neighbourhoods where they'd play funk and disco tracks and ask a friend to be their MC. The MC's job was to introduce the DJ, encourage the dancing and provide entertainment that eventually brought about rap culture.
Hip Hop Hairstyle
Hip Hop hair for men and women feature many different funky styles, mainly around afro hairstyle including plaits and braids. Many photoshoots feature women hair being gelled to the side of their face in a curl.
Hip Hop Fashion and Accessories
Hip Hop fashion included wearing baggy clothing, such as oversized trackuit bottoms/ tops. The 'baseball' type sports jacket and cap combination was also brought into fashion during this time and culture with the emergence of girl group 'Salt N Pepa' and their fashion. Hip Hop fashion also included many types of branded sneakers.
Baggy clothing
Hip Hop accessories and style included wearing many gold chains around your neck, usually with a dollar sign hanging off it. Medallions were popular but also gold rings, watches and bracelets.
One aspect i noticed is that girls often wore denim including dungarees with a brand t-shirt combination such as a Tommy Hilfiger logo top. Many stylists in photoshoots would wrap shirts and tie them around the waist, creating layers.
Hip Hop Makeup
Hip Hop makeup was bold and vibrant. It usually focused on the eyes and the lips. Primary colours and gold combinations were common.
Hip Hop Music/ Icons
In the 1970s, Hip Hop, an underground urban movement began to develop in the South Bronx in NY City. It focused on emceeing, breakbeats and house parties. Jamaican born DJ CLIVE 'Kool Herc' Campbell was highly influential in the pioneering stage of hip hop music.
Now, hip hop music was brought success with Kanye West in the 2000s. Hip Hop music is rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping and a rhythmic speech that is chanted.
Salt n Pepa
The trio released several successful albums in the late 1980s and '90s, including A Salt with a Deadly Pepa and Blacks' Magic, which provided such hits as "Let's Talk About Sex," "Shoop" and "Whatta Man." They are iconic for their baseball look jackets, chains and cap mix in bold primary colours such as yellow, red, green and black.
Tupac
Tupac was an American rapper and a hip hop legend with explicit and controversial lyrics. Most of Tupac's songs were about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghetto, racism, other social problems and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry.
Hip Hop Films/ TV Programmes
Wild Style 1983
Wild Style shows the culture of Hip Hop including the combination of graffiti art and personal life. It is full of great subway shots, breakdancing, freestyle, MCing, which are all the main focuses of Hip Hop culture.
8 mile 2002
8 mile focuses on the captivating life of the legendary rapper Eminem and shows the story of his troubles as an aspiring rapper. His only way out of the ghetto and torturous life he's living in is with his talent of rapping, which many youngers growing up in the hip hop environment can relate to.
Hip Hop Styled Photoshoots/ Fashion Collections
RIHANNA I-D MAGAZINE PRE-SPRING 15. BY PAOLO ROVERSI.
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To me, this shoot of Rhianna screams Hip Hop. The use of denim as a two piece and the way it is styled by twisting round the body really reminds me of hip hop culture.It's the clothes, the hair, the makeup, the pose, and the background that gives the hip hop nature away.
Rhianna is posed wearing gold hoop earrings,denim clothing, gold eyeshadow,bold lipstick, with many funky braids falling down her face.
Hip Hop inspired Fashion Collections
Alexander Wang Spring 2013
Alexander Wang's Spring 2013 collection portrayed a sporty aesthetic. Boxy shirts and bermuda shorts were sliced and diced into strips, then fused back together with fishing line, providing peaks of sexy skin under boyish silhouettes.
Moschino Fall/Winter 2015-16
What inspired me about the above picture from Moschino's Fall/ Winter 2015 collection was the use of colour. Bold primary colours were used in quilted material featuring many different cuts, included crop tops and skirts. The use of cap style hats in these bold primary colours also adds to the whole sense of hip hop style.
Within my research i found a lot of girls in hop hop culture wear denim, and denim mixes and two pieces. So i found this collection from Moschino and i fell in love. I love the patchwork denim mixed with rich gold and the use of gold chains. Again the cap mixed with the clothing really draws attention to hip hop colour and pulls to the richness of the colour gold in the patchwork.
Frankie Morello S/S 2013
Frankie Morello (Italian Fashion) celebrated ghetto style with this spring summer 2013 collection. Inspiration came from styling of rapper,s hip hoppers, breakdancers, basketball players, gangsters etc. The collection featured the 'American Ghetto' with elements of multi ethnic and culture.
The collection featured oversized volumes in black and white enlightened by gold elements, flat peaked caps, metal mesh, gold chains and python print leather and nylon are mixed with super-bleached denim, rap quotes and graffiti- effect graphics.
My own mock photoshoot for Hip Hop Style.
These are my best collages from my visual sketchbook on Hip Hop
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