It's not the same. hiphop is a rap, while popping is a street dance. They are not the same kind.

hip hop was born in the streets of American slums. Generally speaking, it was born in the Bronx, new york, USA.

Hip-hop first rose among African-American and Latino youths in the Bronx, north of new york, and then developed and spread all over the world.

POPPING, also known as vibration, belongs to hip-hop. Generally, it includes shoulders, chest, arms, legs and so on. Sometimes Waving (current) is also integrated into the scope of POPPIN by current dancers. LOCKING, also known as locking dance, is mainly about changing hands and locking, which produces dazzling beauty and strength. Today's POPPIN has no distinction between Old School and New School, and both belong to Street Dance.

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Cultural origin

1. HipHop

In 1959, the New York city government decided to build a highway across the Bronx, where immigrants lived. This huge project will bring inconvenience and even chaos to the residents here for a long time, so some families with better economic conditions in the already poor Bronx decided to move.

in p>1968, the new York city government decided to build a large area of condominium on the northern edge of the Bronx again, and other capable families also moved into the condominium. In less than ten years, the Bronx has become a poor and shabby slum, and its former prosperity has gradually been replaced by crime, drugs and unemployment.

In p>1973, Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant living in the west street of Bronx, often held "music parties" at home. He often played some jazz, R&; B. funk. Ska and soul music, compared with disco popular in the United States at the same time, Herc's music is closer to the real life of people in slums, and his party is getting bigger and bigger.

finally, Herc decided to move the party outdoors, and created a unique method of using two record players to repeatedly play the wonderful break from the same record, so as to keep the party atmosphere at a climax. Since then, DJ Kool Herc's party has become famous in the Bronx.

Later, after the improvement and innovation of Grandmaster Flash, this technology innovated the techniques of disc rubbing and fast mixing, and added devices such as operating lever and even sliding converter, which made DJ formally become a science. As the DJ technology became more and more complicated, many DJs had no time to communicate with the live audience, so MC, which was responsible for active atmosphere, was derived.

at a party, Kool Herc found several young people dancing in a special way. They always waited until the music break appeared. After a series of dazzling acrobatic footwork, they suddenly stopped at the end of the break. Kool Herc was amazed and called these young people break boys, later referred to as B-boy.

On November 12th, 1973, Bambaataa founded Zulu Nation, a street dance group, on the basis of his juvenile gang. The group consists of six members, including a DJ and two small street dance groups.

Love Bug Starski, a member of p>Zulu Nation, invented the word "hiphop" and used it to name his own party. Zulu Nation created a new way of street fighting dance, which attracted a large number of followers for itself and also absorbed some subway graffiti lovers.

in the mid-196s, Combread from Philadelphia wrote his name all over the streets of Philadelphia in order to attract people's attention, and this kind of "tag" soon began to enter new york. Every day, bits and pieces of signatures pop up on the streets and subways in new york. The subway shuttles through the city with all kinds of signatures, which makes them get the maximum exposure and gradually all the signatures are moved to the subway.

In order to make themselves unique, some people choose to expand the signature area, while others start to add some decorative paintings such as lace and halo to their signatures, and develop a variety of fonts. At this time, the signature has been renamed "writing", but more people still call it "graffiti".

After p>1974, the subway paintings blossomed, matured, and the competition became increasingly fierce, and even more, works covering the whole subway side appeared. The subways running on more than 2 subway lines in new york are painted beyond recognition.

In p>198, the new york Municipal Transportation Administration took various measures to thoroughly rectify the phenomenon of "graffiti". On May 12, 1989, the new york Municipal Transportation Administration announced that it had won the war against graffiti. Many graffiti artists find other ways to create in Europe and even hold art exhibitions.

2. popping

Popping originated in the early 197s and took shape in the middle and late 197s. It rose in different forms in San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland and other places in California on the west coast of the United States, and its origin and inventor were controversial.

The inspiration for the invention comes from different opinions, such as imitating Robot Style, the quick pause of Locking dance, and the popular dance action Jerk Dance in the 196s. The recognized system induction and popularization is the founding group Electric Boogaloos led by Boogaloo Sam.

It is characterized by expressing music rhythm by controlling the "vibration/explosion point" effect caused by the sudden relaxation and tightening of muscles in various parts of the body, as well as the movement and walking of limbs, and it is often performed in combination with a large number of different styles and technologies such as Robot, Wave, Slide, etc. Now there are also views that the concept of Popping today should include these styles and technologies closely related to Popping.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hip Hop

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