{"id":990,"date":"2026-09-28T20:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/?p=990"},"modified":"2026-10-10T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:38:08","slug":"research-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/2026\/09\/28\/research-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Research &#8211; The Pillars of Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To begin my reaserch, I travelled to the local library and saw what I could find on the topic of hip-hop. I quickly came across the book <em>Hip Hop Raised Me<\/em> by DJ Semtex, which acted as an excellent starting point for my research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1066\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7800121876904327;width:255px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/09\/image.png 780w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/09\/image-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/09\/image-768x984.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this book I learned about the 4 pillars &#8211; DJing (aural), MCing (verbal), Graffiti (visual) and Breaking (physcial), all with the exception of knowledge, which I would further research later &#8211; some notable figures such as Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore and Arika Bambaataa. It also gave me insight about the film <em>Wild Style <\/em>by Charlie Ahearn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kool Herc is known as being the originator of the hip-hop movement, responsible for what Sentex put as the &#8220;cultural big bang&#8221;: on the 11th of August 1973, he played a set at his sister Cindy&#8217;s party in which <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To begin my reaserch, I travelled to the local library and saw what I could find on the topic of hip-hop. I quickly came across the book Hip Hop Raised Me by DJ Semtex, which acted as an excellent starting point for my research. Through this book I learned about the 4 pillars &#8211; DJing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rese","category-y3s1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/om3g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}