Hip-Hop Revolution

Question 0

According to Founding Fathers, the first Grandmaster was not Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster what?

Answer 0

Flowers

Question 1

Where was gangsta rap more popular than message rap in the early 90s?

Answer 1

California

Question 2

According to the textbook, what was Kool Herc known for?

Answer 2

Looping instrumental breaks with two turntables

Question 3

According to Founding Fathers, what did police do about Deejays on the streets at night?

Answer 3

Allowed them to play because it gave kids a good place to go without causing trouble

Question 4

How did the 1970s idea of “rapping” as a method of verbal engagement become popular?

Answer 4

Through “Blaxploitation” films

Question 5

Why weren’t black artists included in MTV’s early days?

Answer 5

MTV professed a rock-only format that automatically excluded most black artists

Question 6

According to Founding Fathers, what is the most important part of the hip hop cultural complex?

Answer 6

Spoken word

Question 7

What kind of hip hop subgenre was popular in New Orleans?

Answer 7

Bounce

Question 8

What about Louis Armstrong was the antithesis to hardcore rap?

Answer 8

His music was described as “hot” while other rappers aspired to be “icy”.

Question 9

How did early 90s rappers maintain their peer connections with their audiences?

Answer 9

Through fashion

Question 10

What is the term for “an electronic unit that records phrases digitally, allowing for the recording of a ‘loop,’ or a short recorded phrase programmed to repeat”?

Answer 10

Sampler

Question 11

How did Old School MCs establish their reputations?

Answer 11

Through performance

Question 12

What was Afrika Bambaataa’s musical talent?

Answer 12

Mixing obscure and unusual records.

Question 13

What did Gil Scott Heron call himself?

Answer 13

A “bluesologist”

Question 14

What is the term that describes a rapper or group of rappers that recite poetry over DJ accompaniment?

Answer 14

MC

Question 15

According to Founding Fathers, what did people steal off of stoplights?

Answer 15

Tweeters

Question 16

How did Run-D.M.C. characterize both Old and New schools?

Answer 16

Rhyme scheme (old) and percussive vocals (new)

Question 17

What is the difference between Old School and New School rap?

Answer 17

Old School features DJs, rappers, and the cultural complex of hip hop, while New School highlights diverse MCs

Question 18

Who accused Biggie Smalls of attempted murder?

Answer 18

Tupac Shakur

Question 19

How did Dr. Dre and his fellow gangsta rappers characterize woman?

Answer 19

As manipulators

Question 20

What kind of parody songs did some female artists find fame with in the mid-1980s?

Answer 20

Answer songs

Question 21

What was the “Zulu Nation”?

Answer 21

A group that promoted peaceful hip hop expression.

Question 22

What three identities did woman hip hop and blues artists have to contend with?

Answer 22

Female, black female artist, and artist

Question 23

What does “U.N.I.T.Y” criticize?

Answer 23

Anti-female practices of street culture.

Question 24

What characterized the underground sound?

Answer 24

Low-tech, minimalistic sound

Question 25

What Grandmaster Flash song was one of the earliest recordings to feature scratching?

Answer 25

“The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel”

Question 26

According to Founding Fathers, where did Deejays get their power from on the streets?

Answer 26

Streetlights

Question 27

What kind of music did early Deejays and Emcees play?

Answer 27

Disco and house

Question 28

According to Founding Fathers, rapping began not in the Bronx, but where?

Answer 28

Brooklyn

Question 29

Why was Salt-N-Pepa’s female voice seen as diluted or tempered?

Answer 29

They didn’t write very much of their own material

Question 30

What country besides the U.S. was a major influence in the formation of hip hop?

Answer 30

Jamaica

Question 31

According to Founding Fathers, early scratching was a technique that did what?

Answer 31

Allowed the Deejay to find the correct spot on the recording without cueing

Question 32

Who was “the first overtly and consistently politically oriented group in hip hop”?

Answer 32

Public Enemy

Question 33

Which are deejays detailed in Founding Fathers?

Answer 33

Master D/Deejay Lance and the Disco Twins

Question 34

What comedian and R&B/funk recording artist is often cited as a forerunner of rap?

Answer 34

Pigmeat Markham

Question 35

According to Founding Fathers, what did “Rapper’s Delight” sound like it was giving tribute to?

Answer 35

Louis Armstrong

Question 36

What two sides of the urban black man did hip hop come to symbolize?

Answer 36

Exotic, dangerous, and feared while simultaneously appealing and marketable

Question 37

Even when women wrote their own lyrics, why did suffer in the rap production complex?

Answer 37

They still had male producers