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We are the one and only MAD hiphop 09/10

Jessica.Matthew.Sarah.Qianrui.Daryll.Junan.
Yiran.Thomson.Wangchi.Jiale.Pinghui.Cherie.
Haojie.Patricia.Bernice.Hilary.Girvan.

hey hoppers check out the new hot calendar on the left
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P.S. i have no idea how come all the words became bolded haha.

where we got lots of our freestyle songs
ask me for the songs inside if you want i dled most of them le :D
for j2s: most of them are inside gmail

FTL 2010 hiphop top 4



EVERYBODY GET A HEADSPRUNGG
can hear us cheering when the song started (esp girvan's voice HAHA)

FTL 2010 hiphop finals - Groove Aggression vs Jinu and Jron
from groove aggression's pov:


from the other side's pov:


the crowd was freaking high when whuteva played HAHA

junan (:

Yay watch this people! They're dam cool =)

Enjoy!



-Thomson

helllo i'm back again!

we havent seen some kpop here in ages yea!!!

PREPIX CHOREO. its dam nice but the chorus part abit diaoed imo.

hellolo an old pic.

omggg gonna be one year soon.

jiayou for blocks everyone! then its gonna be chiong for dancenight all the way :D

can we go universal studios for jts AHAHHAHA just kidding.

and wahlau i miss my long hair. -.-

sorry i'm spamming the blog cos lazy to sms.

HOPPERS WHO ARE TAKING PSC PAE TMR MORNING WHO WANNA EAT LUNCH+MUG IN SCH AFTER THAT :D

and those who havent gone to like the sbdc vids on fb, do so nowwwww.

btw i'm qianrui!

HELLOOO
those who missed sbdc today, you've missed a whole load of entertainment(xD), dopeness, cool shit stuff and JOYCE AND THE BOYS. holy.
vids will be up soon on fb, check them out (:

and:
1. who wants to dao blocks and watch next wknd
2. who wants to join sbdc next year HOHO.

qianrui!

ohmagawd this is too dope :D

and listen to this (:

this is a freaking good introduction to the history of hiphop. a must read :D
source - http://singaporegotdance.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

Hey guys, it’s Jasmine and Ben aka pSyk again. This week, it’s about Style Talk.
Every dancer should know their history regardless of what style you are dancing to. Be it Hip Hop, Ballet, Jazz, Breaking, Locking, Popping, Social Dancing, anything. We need to make the effort in reading up on our history, or by watching videos.

Today, we will be covering on the history of Hip Hop.

In the early aspects of the Bronx before and during the creation of Hip Hop (the late 60s and 70s), there was a drastic change going on in the streets of NYC. A gang is like family members, and by that, it means that your family is your complete neighbourhood.

In Hip Hop culture, there is always an association of gang influence. There were many instances where Hip Hop heads were gang members themselves. DJ Kool Herc earned his respect from gangs by giving shoutouts to them while spinning on the wheels of steel, and he kept peace in the jams.

From South Bronx, the biggest gang leader who changed his gang into the biggest Hip Hop motion in the streets of New York and ultimately, the world, is Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation.

The first forms of Hip Hop music was born in the African Americans New Yokers block parties in the Bronx during the 1970s. In the first Hip Hop hits, performers began rapping when the music (especially funk and soul music) played. They were originally called MCs.

In the early 1970s, breaking began as part of the block parties as b-boys, and b-girls had cyphers (jams) and they danced to the drumbeats with footwork, toprocks, freezes and powermoves.

Freestyle Hip Hop came around ’84 as the overexposure of Funk and Bboying reached it's peak, with the release of movies like “Breakin”, “Breakin2/Electric Boogaloo”, and “Beatstreet” as well as other various commercials and videos. In ’85, the dance forms died down and it stayed dead til about ’86.

A club called UNION Square, gave birth to was what is known today as Freestyle Hip Hop. Buddha Stretch’s friend, Tron, prepared a show together with some bboys and poppers, to perform one night. On the night of the performance, the dancers decided not to perform due to the rowdy crowds but instead, they jammed. It was after that night that the club wanted them to perform every week.

Buddha Stretch was the choreographer along with Michele Ann Travis’s help who did the promotion for the club. It was the beginning of Freestyle Hip Hop dance as he incorporated all the dances he knew or just learned into their routines. From there onwards, he went on to dance for the famous group WHODINI, in the summer of 87'.

MOPTOP was officially formed in formed in ’91 and Elite Force did not officially come together as a crew until ’93.

Hip Hop dance is basically, as Buddha Stretched said, an "Urban Social Organised Dance".

Why? Hip Hop dance was inspired by the music. The music gave birth to the movement. And each song gave birth to a certain move. Everyone knew the song, everyone knew the move and they would do it together. It didn't matter who you were or where you were from. It didn't matter what dance background you had, or even if you had any. You could have been a popper, a locker, a breaker. No one cared. Everyone just wanted to have fun. If you went to The Monastery in St. Louis, you would be doing the move named after the club. We use this move so often in our choreographies these days but I think, only 10% of those who know the move actually know the history behind it.

Why is knowing your history so important?

Easy: If you don't know where you came from, you won't be able to move forward. Know your foundations, and understand them. Knowing your history helps you understand the foundations even more. And only by truly understanding your foundations, are you able to create something brand new out of it.

hehe that's quoted by paopao during our fri prac with the juniors :D

HARRO PEOPLE :D

IF YOU HAVEN'T REALISED, DANCE NIGHT IS IN A LITTLE MORE THAN 2 MONTHS TIME.

WHICH IS DAMN LITTLE! D:

K SO IF IT'S POSSIBLE CAN THE CHOREOGRAPHERS FOR J2 ITEM COMPLETE CHOREOGRAPHY BY MARCH HOLIDAYS SO WE CAN START LEARNING AFTER BLOCKS? :D OR AT LEAST COME UP WITH SOMETHING YOU CAN TEACH DURING PRAC AND CONTINUE CHOREOGRAPHING AFTER THAT.

k i shall stop typing in caps.

anyway, j2s please also keep your schedule free on every week's wednesday, thursday and saturday cos we'll probably be using these dates for j2 prac. meaning nobody is to sms jessica or me saying they can't make it for prac because of ANY reason (e.g. fac comm, consult with teacher, tuition, other item choreography session). other than lessons in school.

and for j1s i think it wouldn't be a problem la since you all so free. but make sure those of you in huangcheng don't ever pon practice for huangcheng yeah. otherwise you will dai :D oh and ms chen should be smsing you all about your first prac with her soon :D

-matthew

What's rapping?
Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting (bars), or just rhyming) refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment (beats as we know it). Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music.

Flow and beats in rapping
'Flow' in rapping is defined as "the rhythms and rhymes" of a hip hop song's lyrics and how they interact. Staying on the beat is central to rap's flow.
MCs stay on-beat by stressing syllables in time to the four beats of the musical backdrop. (we dance in counts of 8 which is twice that of music but essentially the regular beats music and dance follow are the same)
Rap lyrics are made up of, “lines with four stressed beats, separated by other syllables that may vary in number and may include other stressed syllables. The strong beat of the accompaniment coincides with the stressed beats of the verse, and the rapper organizes the rhythms of the intervening syllables to provide variety and surprise.

History
The old use of the word 'rap' was to describe quick speech or repartee (conversation involving prompt and witty replies) long predates hiphop music.

The word had been used in British English since the 16th century, and specifically meaning "to say" since the 18th. It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning "to converse", and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the style of hip hop music. Today, the terms "rap" and "rapping" are so closely associated with hip hop music that many use the terms interchangeably.

Rapping can be traced back to its African roots. Centuries before hip hop music existed, the griots (A storyteller in western Africa who perpetuates the oral tradition and history of a village or family) of West Africa were delivering stories rhythmically, over drums and sparse instrumentation.

During the mid-20th century, the musical culture of the Caribbean was constantly influenced by the concurrent changes in American music. As early as 1956, deejays were toasting (an African tradition of "rapped out" tales of heroism) over dubbed Jamaican beats.

One of the first rappers in the beginning of the hip hop period, in the end of '70s, was also hip hop's first DJ, Kool Herc. Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started delivering simple raps at his parties, inspired by the Jamaican tradition of toasting.

If you've been reading consciously, you'll realise that there's supposed to be a distinction b/w the deejay and DJ mentioned above. so read below:

Deejays and disc jockeys
A deejay (alternatively spelled DJ - which makes it difficult to distinguish between the 2) is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and toasts to an instrumental riddim (rhythm).

Deejays are not to be confused with disc jockeys from other music genres like hip-hop, where they select and play music.




In other words, DJs in hip hop culture refer to disc jockeys, the masters of the turntables with the big discs often associated with parties and dance battles.

Subject matter
Rappers often make reference to a certain subject matter in their raps as well. Types of raps include party raps (the standard raps often associated with hip-hop), raps centred around themes such as love, crime, sociopolitical issues, street or gangster lifestyles and religion.

rapping. 1/4 of the elements of hiphop (:

sounds familiar?

HELLO ALL JUNIORS WHO HAVE BEEN SECRETLY STALKING THIS BLOG AND MATTHEW'S BLOG :D

-qian4 rui3-