'They said hip-hop wouldn't last,' but on its 50th anniversary, we look at how it's changed music, fashion, film, sports and more.
A mural at the birthplace of hip-hop at the Bronx's Sedgwick Houses, featuring an image of the genre's creator DJ Kool Herc. , located at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx. Herc set the atmosphere from behind two turntables, mixing songs, when his friend took the microphone and started to rhyme over the records.Fast-forward to today, hip-hop has grown into a global powerhouse. In 2017, it surpassed rock as the most popular music genre in the U.S.
. Now, as the genre turns 50, hip-hop legends, fans and more are helping to mark the musical milestone. Here's why."To look for hip-hop on the charts these days — to look for it in film, in fashion, in visual art — is to find it virtually everywhere. The most important Black-pioneered art form of our time, hip-hop began as — and to some degree remains — a product of the street, accessible to anyone, even as it's grown into a global industry that now generates billions.
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