User:Hanekros/Hip hop activism

Creating a first introduction paragraph under the Evolution and Context section.

Just as the mid-seventies was the beginning of the post civil rights movement era, it was also the start of hip-hop music. American society unfortunately was under a new, more insidious kind of state violence. The growth of drugs and violence resulted in an increase in youth arrests. In areas like South Bronx, our nation turned a blind eye to black and Latino youth. This is where the, "somethin' outta nothin," mentality was developed, and the way it was developed was through rapping or MCing. Hip-hop was paired with other forms of expression that emerged from this DJing, break dancing, and graffiti writing were all ways that stories of harsh American reality were told by the youth.