Krip-Hopping The 5 Elements of Hip-Hop, Visual/Graffiti ART by DJ Short-e Coming Soon

Original Author

Leroy

Original Post Date

2012-01-14 07:10 PM

Original Body

"In the early days, the elements brought people together, the DJ would be spinning, the b-boys/ b-girls would be dancing, emcees would be lining up to take the mic and hype up the crowd and the graffiti artists would be there supporting, drawing in their black books or putting together a mural; or at least this is the picture that has been painted of the early days by the pioneers and journalists. The culture was very much a table that was held up by the legs of these four elements (an analogy I learned from Grandmaster Caz)."

Grant Brydon

Grant Brydon is a freelance writer and blogger and all-around hip hop advocate hailing from the UK. He runs his own hip hop blog at HipHopFiend.org.

Hip-Hop artists with disabilities have been displaying these four elements since day one but lately it’s coming to the surface in greater numbers:

We have our own music, Krip-Hop

We have our own dances check out dancers on crutches, wheelchair users and more

We have our own art, check out Rynita Short-e McGuire

"Hey all I, Rynita Short-e McGuire, mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> was just commissioned by Leroy Moore to do a Painting for Krip-Hop Nation. This piece will show disabled women hip-hop artists (DJ, B-Girl, and MC) in the style of street art. I'll post pics when it's done around March."

We got books like MF Grimm's Sentences, Leroy's upcoming book, Krip-Hop Nation and so much more.

We are Hip-Hop!!!

We are Music!

We are in your face!

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