Hip Hop and R&B

Hip Hop and R&B are a dance, a type of culture and basically music. 


R&B

R&B is the abbreviation of rhythms and blues. It was originated in the 1940s, a popular African American music. Originally the term R&B was just a word used by record companies used to describe recordings that was predominately marketed to urban African Americans during the times that urbane, jazz and rocking based music, which contained vibrant, insistent beats were becoming very popular. 

Over a period of time the term of R&B subsequently kept shifting in meaning. Around the early 1950s, R&B was frequently applied just to blues records. During the mid-1950s (in which this genre of music contributed to development of Rock and Roll), R&B was used to refer to styles of music that developed and incorporated gospel, soul music and electric blues. Eventually by the 1970-80s the newer style of R&B were developed and it became known as contemporary R&B.


Hip Hop 
Hip Hop is a form of musical expression that not originated from African-American but Hispanic-American communities during the 1970s (New York - Bronx). There is four main pillars to Hip Hop: MCing|DJing|B-Boying and graffiti writing. Graffiti may seem like an odd pillar to hold Hip Hop, however the relationship between Hip Hop and graffiti arises from the appearance of new and elaborate forms of the practice in areas where other elements of Hip Hop were evolving as art forms. In our modern society graffiti remains part of Hip Hop, while crossing into the mainstream art world with renowned exhibits in galleries throughout the world. Since its emergence (South Bronx), the culture of Hip Hop has spread both urban and suburban communities throughout the world. 


The first emergence of Hip Hop was with a disc jockey (above right-side) which created rhythmic beats by looping breaks on two turn tables. This was later accompanied by Rap.