HIST 390 Blog

            For the digital scavenger hunt I looked up the word “Hip Hop”.  Interestingly, there were two tiny bumps of interest, once around 1903, and then again in the 1920s.  This had me thinking that perhaps “Hip Hop” was used to describe something else at that time.  I researched those dates and “Hip Hop” and found no results.  However, “Hip Hop” did appear again with a sharp increase in 1980.  Upon looking up “Hip Hop” during that time period, it was clear that during that time “Hip Hop” in the music scene was taking off as the “Golden age” of Hip Hop.  Artists during this time include LL Cool J, Run-DMC, and the Beastie Boys.