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Hip-Hop has appeared since 1970s in the Bronx and Harlem. Hip-hop culture has three major components: rap music, break-dancing, and graffiti art.

By the mid-1980s, rap music as an expression of hip-hop culture had become the Next Wave of wider popular culture. By the mid-1980s, rap music as an expression of hip-hop culture had become the Next Wave of wider popular culture. It seized the attention and interest of young people. In the late 1980s and the early 1990s rap gained enormous popularity.

They could and did, however, listen to the music, wear high-cost sneakers, sagging pants, and baseball caps, imitate the hair cuts. They could and did, however, listen to the music, wear high-cost sneakers, sagging pants, and baseball caps, imitate the hair cuts. As rap and hip-hop subculture appeared as the one of the black population, white teenagers could not, as much as they might wish to, become black.

Break – dancing stated in the South Bronx as an alternative to gang warfare. It consisted of highly rehearsed, acrobatic, stylized dancing, a form of street theater. Break – dancing stated in the South Bronx as an alternative to gang warfare. It consisted of highly rehearsed, acrobatic, stylized dancing, a form of street theater.

Graffiti is an Italian world which means scratchings or scribblings. Graffiti is an Italian world which means scratchings or scribblings. Graffiti refers to writings or pictures, rude, humorous, political in content, drawn with spray paint on walls in public places, parks, trains, toilets et cetera. It is a form of self-expression, and tough graffiti art has never moved beyond vandalism.