Back to the Culture
The Storyfrom the Bronx to today
Every chapter in one line, from the roots to today. Each chapter: the essence in three sentences, the full story to open up.
Foundation
1What Is Culture?coming soon
Getting Started
2What Is Hip-Hop?coming soon
3Myths and Stereotypescoming soon
4Scene, Crews and Codescoming soon
The Roots
5Roots in Africa and the Caribbeancoming soon
6African American Roots of Rapcoming soon
7The Scene Before 1973coming soon
The Bronx
8The Bronx in Ruinscoming soon
9The Hoe Avenue Peacecoming soon
10Who Invented Hip-Hop?coming soon
11The Founding Yearscoming soon
12The Pioneerscoming soon
13Women in Hip-Hopcoming soon
14The Art and the Artistcoming soon
The Values
15The Valuescoming soon
16Keep It Realcoming soon
17Hip-Hop as Consciousnesscoming soon
18Declaration of Peacecoming soon
19The Seven Principlescoming soon
20The Unwritten Lawscoming soon
21From Toy to Kingcoming soon
The Elements
22The Elementscoming soon
23DJing and Turntablismcoming soon
24Producing and Beatmakingcoming soon
25MCing and Rapcoming soon
26Breaking and Funk Stylescoming soon
27Graffiti and Writingcoming soon
28Beatboxingcoming soon
29Knowledgecoming soon
30Street Fashioncoming soon
31Slang and Languagecoming soon
32Street Entrepreneurialismcoming soon
33Double Dutch, Streetball, Skateboardingcoming soon
How the Culture Lives
34The Tools of the Culturecoming soon
35The Media of the Culturecoming soon
36Hip-Hop in Film and Photocoming soon
37Celebrations, Events and Remembrancecoming soon
The USA Through the Decades
38The 1970scoming soon
39Rapper's Delight and the Leap Into the Worldcoming soon
40The 1980scoming soon
41The 1990scoming soon
42The 2000scoming soon
43The 2010scoming soon
44The 2020scoming soon
45Rap Styles Through the Yearscoming soon
46Rap by Stancecoming soon
47Origins and Politicscoming soon
48Queer in Hip-Hopcoming soon
49The Eras Matrixcoming soon
The Legends
50Famous DJscoming soon
51MCscoming soon
52The Writerscoming soon
53B-Boys and B-Girlscoming soon
54Beatboxerscoming soon
55KRS-One and the Knowledge Keeperscoming soon
Europe and the World
56Global Hip-Hopcoming soon
57France, Grime, Kwaito and Morecoming soon
Germany
58Hip-Hop in Germanycoming soon
59Pioneers in Germanycoming soon
60Heidelberg and Stuttgartcoming soon
61German Rap from the 90s to Todaycoming soon
62Gangsta Rap in Germanycoming soon
63Rap, the Index and Censorshipcoming soon
64Deutschrap Todaycoming soon
Stuttgart
65Stuttgart: Scene, Spots, Peoplecoming soon
66Spaces and Jamscoming soon
Today and the Future
67Hip-Hop Todaycoming soon
68The Hip-Hop Communitycoming soon
69Old School, New Schoolcoming soon
70Each one teach onecoming soon
71Is Hip-Hop Dead?coming soon
72The Scene and AIcoming soon
For You, Anytime
73Getting Into Hip-Hopcoming soon
74Hip-Hop Skillscoming soon
75Skills Through the Yearscoming soon
76Law and Ethicscoming soon
77Rap and Moneycoming soon
78Body and Healthcoming soon