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The music of reggae and its cultural influence on hip hop

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Marquita Robinson

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Reggae pioneers

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Conclusion

Hip Hop Pioneers

  • Reggae's influence can be seen in a lot of different ways.
  • However, the influence does not end with hip hop, it continues with groups merging all genres of music with reggae like the musical group Sublime

  • Some of the early pioneers of reggae music was The Wailers; a group co-founded by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
  • Other influential artists was Yellowman, Shabba Ranks and King Tubby, who was a sound engineer and not an artist.
  • The Sugarhill Gang was one of the first American hip hop groups, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100

Bob Marley

History of Reggae

Violence in Hip hop music

Yellowman

  • Reggae music had political violence yet hip hop music invoked real violence
  • Constant talk of violence in lyrics
  • Degraded women
  • Against authority
  • War on drugs and gun violence escalated to censorship

  • Developed in Jamaica in the 1960's from ska and rocksteady, early forms of Jamaican music.

The music of reggae and its cultural influence on hip hop

Influence on Hip Hop

Reggae and Politics

  • The tempo is much slower than ska and rocksteady and consists of offbeat rhythms.
  • Dub was introduced to hip hop through reggae
  • Kool Herc, Hip Hop's founder, was Jamaican and based his New York style on Jamaican sound systems.
  • Reggae and politics were closely connected.
  • At the One Love concert on April 22, 1978, Bob Marley joined hands with political rivals Michael Manley and Edward Seaga, in an effort for peace.

Drug Use

  • Reggae artists used cannabis (i.e. marijuana) as a way to free their mind and soul
  • Rastafarians saw the drug as a holy sacrament
  • Artists such as Snoop Dogg or Snoop Lion have always promoted the use of marijuana
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