"5-4-3-2-1" #.3

5 comments:

1. By 1998, hip hop had overtaken country music to become America's biggest-selling format.
2. I look up to rappers that rap and don't feel the need to use curse words, it's hard to do now a days!
3. DJ Kool Herc practically was the pioneer of hip hop!
4. It's hard to trace back who actually invented hip hop because it's so many things and everyone knows about it.
5. I never knew that hip hop was an element of reggae, wow!

4 questions:
1. Is hip hop still America's biggest-selling format?
2. Is hip hop really dead, has it lost its true meaning?
3. Would hip hop still exsist if DJ Kool Herc wasn't around?
4. If the Sugarhill Gang didn't exsist, then would hip hop still be what it is today?

3 vocabulary:
1. Coincidence: a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance
2. Sole: being the only one; only
3. Commerce: an interchange of goods or commodities, esp. on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce); trade; business.

2 literary terms:
1. Imagery: "The mythological tricksters and heroes are replaced by electronic-age superheroes recruited from from kung fu, karate, science fiction and blaxploitation movies..."
2. Metaphor:"The city is a prison..."

1 overview sentence
1. I learned about DJ Kool Herc and how hip hop took over!