20th-century American Hip Hop (Rap) Music

The development of European and American pop music has been more than 100 years, in the process, African Americans made an indelible contribution. Creative strong African-American people, in the process of dance, has developed a unique form of pop music-hip hop (rap) music (hereinafter referred to as "hip hop"). Hip hop (rap) music (rap) is a simple melody and rhythm as the music background fixed to the spoken rhythm of pop music concert. "Hip Hop", that is Hip-Hop, which is the hip Hip, Hop is one foot off, Hip-Hop means the swing hip, dance. Since 1960, rising from rock, hip hop (rap) music (rap) swept in a different way the United States. The term hip-hop music created by African Americans as a slang. It was originally meant talk, talk. Hip hop (rap) originated in 20th century New York, Harlem 70's, originally a small number of young people enjoying themselves African American folk music, is HIP-HOP culture, a style branch, in the 80s to the U. S. entertainment industry Modern marketing tools to transform, Become one of the important contemporary popular music. Hip-hop music is a radical form of music, drugs, guns, violence, all with the dark side of the bottom and the words can be found in the hip-hop lyrics. Hip hop generation is both accidental and inevitable, it is a true portrayal of American society, but also to poor African Americans in the nation to bring a new spiritual strength; hip-hop singers who will vent all the anger and discontent are the lyrics in the hip-hop music into a highly infectious and spread the art.This paper introduces the U.S. hip-hop music from the creation to the general development process, and then from the perspective of social and cultural considerations, explore the causes of hip hop music, hip-hop music that African Americans created the possibility and inevitability of hip hop spread quickly to the reasons of American society and the relationship between hip-hop music, and then make a summary of the U.S. hip-hop music.