Old school hip hop

Old school hip hop is a term used to describe the very earliest hip hop music to come out of the block parties of New Yo

Old school hip hop is a term used to describe the very earliest hip hop music to come out of the block parties of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. It began in the early 1970s in New York with the advent of breakbeat DJing, in which DJs including Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash extended the breaks (short percussion interludes) of funk records, creating a more "danceable" sound. In modern usage, the term is often used to refer to hip hop from the early 1990s by numerous radio stations and television channels, including BET.^{[citation needed]} However, this "danceable" sound has fallen out of use with current-day hip hop.

Hip hop music began in the early 1970s in New York City with the advent of breakbeat DJing. Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Flash and other DJs extended the breaks (short percussion interludes) of funk records, creating a more "danceable" sound. This use of extended percussion breaks led to the development of mixing and scratching techniques, and later to the popularization of remixes.