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The third child of Harold and Beverly Poneman, Jonathan Poneman was born October 9, 1959, in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in the suburb of Ottawa Hills. [2] He got his first job, pumping gas at a local filling station at the age of 14. [3]
Backlash was a zine that was published from 1987 to 1991 by Dawn Anderson, covering the "dirtier, heavier, more underground and rock side of Seattle's music scene", including "punk, metal, underground rock, grunge before it was called grunge and even some local hip-hop." [142] Grunge Gerl #1 was one early 1990s grunge zine; the publication was ...
The Washington Post, Billboard, and NME have called him a "West Coast icon"; [323] [324] [325] and Press-Telegram, "an icon of gangsta rap". [326] In 2006, Vibe magazine called him "The King of the West Coast". [327] ABC News journalist Paul Donoughue, cited him among the 1990s acts that took hip-hop into the pop music charts. [328]
Hip-hop or hip hop (formerly known as disco rap) [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s in New York City. The genre is characterized by stylized rhythmic sounds—often built around disco grooves, electronic drum beats, and rapping, a percussive vocal delivery of rhymed poetic speech as consciousness-raising ...
Grunge speak was a hoax series of slang words purportedly connected to the subculture of grunge in Seattle, reported as fact in The New York Times in 1992. The collection of alleged slang words were coined by a record label worker in response to a journalist asking if grunge musicians and enthusiasts had their own slang terms, seeking to write a piece on the subject.
It is frequently used as a musical response to perceived political and/or social injustices. In South Africa the largest form of hip hop is called Kwaito, which has had a growth similar to U.S. hip hop. Kwaito is a direct reflection of a post-apartheid South Africa and is a voice for the voiceless; a term that U.S. hip hop is often referred to ...
Since the late 1980s, hip hop artists have regularly sampled old funk tunes. James Brown is said to be the most sampled artist in the history of hip hop, while P-Funk is the second most sampled artist; samples of old Parliament and Funkadelic songs formed the basis of West Coast G-funk .
Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) [3] that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of the earlier UK dance style UK garage, [4] and draws influences from jungle, dancehall, and hip hop. [2]