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Hip-Hop is a streetwise musical flavor by extracting rhythms and melodies from existing records and mixing them up with poetry chronicling life in the neighborhoods. It started in the early 1970s in the neighborhoods of the South Bronx located in New York. Gifted teenagers with plenty of imagination began to forge this style from poetry and everyday life. Through television shows like BET’s Rap City and Yo! MTV Raps and a succession of Hollywood movies, hip-hop gained millions of new fans across America, in places far removed from the genre’s Bronx roots. It spread to nearly every continent gaining more cultural significance as the years rolled by. Today it is one of the most potent and successful musical forms of the 20th Century. Hip-Hop is the voice of a generation that refused to be silenced by urban poverty, a local phenomenon fueled with so much passion and truth it could not help but reac