The Origins of Rap music - Wikipedia

Hip hop as music and culture formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular inNew York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx.^[17] Block parties incorporated DJs who played popular genres of music, especially funk and soul music. Due to the positive reception, DJs began isolating the percussive breaks of popular songs. This technique was then common in Jamaican dub music,^[18] and was largely introduced into New York by immigrants from Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, including DJ Kool Herc, who is generally considered the father of hip hop. Because the percussive breaks in funk, soul and disco records were generally short, Herc and other DJs began using two turntables to extend the breaks.

Turntablist techniques - such as scratching (attributed to Grand Wizzard Theodore^[19][20]), beat mixing and/or matching, and beat juggling - eventually developed along with the breaks, creating a base that could be rapped over, in a manner similar to signifying, as well as the art of toasting, another influence found in Jamaican dub music.^[18][21]

Hip hop music in its infancy has be described as an outlet and a "voice" for the disenfranchised youth of low-economic areas,^[22] as the culture reflected the social, economic and political realities of their lives.^[23]