Hip-hop’s “golden age” (or “golden era”) is a name given to a period in mainstream hip-hop-usually cited as between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s-said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence. Hip-hop music became commercially successful. By 1986 their releases began to establish the hip-hop album as a fixture of the mainstream. New school artists made shorter songs that could more easily gain radio play, and more cohesive LPs than their old school counterparts. These elements contrasted sharply with the funk and disco influenced outfits, novelty hits, live bands, synthesizers and party rhymes of artists prevalent prior to 1984. In image as in song its artists projected a tough, cool, street b-boy attitude. It was notable for taunts and boasts about rapping, socio-political commentary, both delivered in an aggressive, self-assertive style. The new school was initially characterized in form by drum machines, with influences from rock music. As with the hip-hop preceding it, the new school came predominately from New York City. The new school of hip-hop was the second wave of hip-hop music, originating in 1983-1984 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. As a result, hip-hop stands as one of the most commercially viable mainstream music genres in Japan, and the line between it and pop music is frequently blurred. Japanese hip-hop generally tends to be most directly influenced by old school hip-hop, taking from the era’s catchy beats, dance, culture, and overall fun and carefree nature and incorporating it into their music. Japanese hip-hop is said to have begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip-hop records in the early 1980s. DJ Disco Wiz and Rock Steady Crew were among early innovators from Puerto Rico, combining English and Spanish in the lyrics. Hip-hop always kept a close relationship with the Latino community in New York. Radio Nova helped launched other French stars including Dee Nasty contributed to a general awareness of hip-hop in France. H.O.P., which screened on TF1 during 1984, a first for the genre worldwide.
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Musician and presenter Sidney became France’s first black TV presenter with his show H.I.P. In the early part of the decade, b-boying became the first aspect of hip-hop culture to reach Japan, Australia and South Africa, where the crew Black Noise established the practice before beginning to rap later in the decade. Greg Wilson was the first DJ to introduce electro hip-hop to UK club audiences in the early 1980s. However, during the 1980s, it began its spread and became a part of the music scene in dozens of countries. Prior to the 1980s, hip-hop music was largely confined within the context of the United States. Artists such as Melle Mel, Rakim, Chuck D, KRS-One and Warp 9 revolutionized hip-hop by transforming it into a more mature art form, with sophisticated arrangements, often featuring “gorgeous textures and multiple layers”. The early styles presented in the 1970s soon were replaced with metaphorical lyrics over more complex, multi-layered instrumentals.
The lyrical content of hip-hop evolved as well. This allowed the filtration and layering different hits, and with a possibility of re-sequencing them into a single piece. Later, samplers such as the E-mu SP-1200 allowed not only more memory, but more flexibility for creative production. Over time sampling technology became more advanced however, earlier producers such as Marley Marl used drum machines to construct their beats from small excerpts of other beats in synchronization. To this day, the 808 kick drum is traditionally used by hip-hop producers. Heavy usage of the new generation of drum machines such as the Oberheim DMX and Roland 808 models was a characteristic of many 1980s songs. Early examples of the diversification process can be identified through such tracks as Grandmaster Flash’s “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” (1981), a single consisting entirely of sampled tracks as well as Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock” (1982), which signified the fusion of hip-hop music with electro. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip-hop as the genre developed more complex styles.
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