Japanese hip hop (nip hop or j-hip hop) is said to have begun in 1983 when Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style was shown in Tokyo. The movie focused on graffiti artists but also featured some early old school MCs like Busy Bee and Double Trouble, DJs like Grandmaster Flash and breakdancers like the Rock Steady Crew. For other uses, see Wild Style (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Graffiti (strictly, as singular, graffito, from the Italian — graffiti being the plural) are images or letters applied without permission to publicly viewable surfaces such as walls or bridges. ... The Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). ... Old school hip hop is a term used to describe the very earliest hip hop music to come out of the block parties of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. ... 65. ... Busy Bee Starski is an old school hip hop MC most famous for his on stage roasting at the hands of rapper Kool Moe Dee, a hip-hop sneak attack that is easily the most famous early example of a battle rap. ... Double Trouble could reference many things: // Films Double Trouble, a 1967 Elvis Presley film. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. ... A breakdancer performing a one-handed freeze (also known as a pike) in the streets of Paris. ... The Rock Steady Crew circa 1981. ...

Following the showing, street musicians began to fucking in Yoyogi Park. Crazy A soon emerged as a prominent b-boy, and he eventually founded the Rock Steady Crew Japan, while DJ Krush has become a world-renowned DJ after arising from the Yoyogi Park scene. More DJs followed, beginning in 1985. A year later, an all hip hop club opened in Shibuya. Before this most of the nightlife was based in Shinjuku. There was some hesitation at the time that the Japanese language may be unsuitable for rapping, due to the lack of stress accents, which hampered flow, and limited number of verb endings, which made it difficult to form interesting rhymes. ^[1] A few rappers emerged, however, including Ito Seiko, Chikado Haruo, Tinnie Punx and Takagi Kan. Categories: Japan geography stubs | Parks ... DJ Krush was born in 1962 in Tokyo. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Categories: Wards of Tokyo | Japan geography stubs ... Categories: Wards of Tokyo | Japan geography stubs ... Japanese  ) is a language spoken by over 130 million people, mainly in Japan, but also by Japanese emigrant communities around the world. ... West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg performing for the US Navy For information on rap music, see hip hop music. ... In linguistics, stress is the emphasis given to some syllables (often no more than one in each word, but in many languages, long words have a secondary stress a few syllables away from the primary stress, as in the words cóunterfòil or còunterintélligence. ... It has been suggested that Verbal agreement be merged into this article or section. ...

In the 1990s, teen-oriented J rap music appeared, and hip hop entered the Japanese mainstream. The first hit was Scha Dara Parr's "Kon'ya wa Boogie Back". The following year saw "Da.Yo.Ne." and "Maicca" by East End X Yuri go platinum. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... East End X Yuri is a Japanese hip hop group. ...

Hip-hop fan in Yokohama shows some Japanese style "bling".

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References

Condry, Ian. 2006. Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press.

Manabe, Noriko. 2006. "Globalization and Japanese creativity: Adaptations of Japanese language to rap." Ethnomusicology 50(1):1-36.

External links

• http://www.cultureuniversal.com/jhop.htm
• http://web.mit.edu/condry/www/jhh/ Ian Condry's site, with videos and historical background
• http://www.aaari.info/06-02-03%20Manabe.htm Video of lecture on Japanese rap and language
• http://www.macsem.org/pantaleonipaper.htm Paper on Japanese rap and language
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3324409.stm
• http://people.umass.edu/kawahara/hiphop_prose.pdf Linguist's assessment of rhymes in Japanese rap
• Nippop Profile | Scha Dara Parr
• http://www.tigarah.net
• STARWAX Music Japanese Hip-Hop/R&B production team in Tokyo.
• http://www.e22.com Empire22 represents an army of visionary artists that have truly overcome the boundaries and confinements of ethnicity,language, and time.
• http://www.teriyakiboyz.com/index2.html

Notes

1. ^ Manabe 2006:1-36