Dre, 54 and Sean “Diddy” Combs, 50, are among the richest musicians in the U.S., with estimated net worths at or approaching $1 billion. She got her start, though, throwing down rhymes, including on her gold album Black Reign. Ice-T, 61, played a detective on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for two decades, yet his career began in gangsta rap and thrash metal some police groups once condemned the pointed commentary in his music.
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Queen Latifah, 49, has appeared in about 40 films, plus had a lead role on the sitcom Living Single and a daytime talk show. Hollywood: Will Smith, 51, is one of the top box office draws of all time, but some 30 years ago, he was a skinny Philadelphia kid rapping about how his parents just didn’t understand.And hip-hop has also provided the foundation for hugely successful careers in other fields. The music dominates the pop charts, is studied in universities and often wins the top Grammy Award categories-even a Pulitzer Prize, for Kendrick Lamar, in 2018. Hip-Hop has developed into a rich musical culture, thanks to those pioneers, with performers worldwide now showing off the complexity of their rhymes, their diction and their sense of rhythm. Plus, the early superstars were larger-than-life characters: LL Cool J, Run-DMC, Public Enemy. And like rock ’n’ roll, and blues and R&B and soul before it, hip-hop followed the tradition of much of America’s popular music-invented by black musicians for black audiences, then crossing over to a wider market. As white audiences discovered rap, they found it thrilling, too like a movie, it was a visit to another world. For inner-city black audiences, early rap seemed like a realistic depiction of their world, and they appreciated the no-holds-barred look at their streets. Where R&B, with a few exceptions, had been about love and focused on melody, hip-hop was all about being cool and loving rhythm-the underlying beat and the rapper’s voice, which became another line of rhythm in the mix. And the rappers stepped onstage wearing clothes that looked like what people in the audience were wearing. People latched on to rap because of its sonic force. It emerged in the ’70s and ’80s as a positive, empowering voice for working-class African Americans at a time when many were struggling economically and dealing with the rise of a drug epidemic. Hip-Hop, or rap, grew outside the music establishment and was not embraced as “real music” for years.
Like it or not, you can’t ignore it: Hip-hop is the most popular music in America. Now many of the genre’s pioneers are in their 50s and 60s and, having launched a music revolution, have set their sights on other fields-film, TV, business, even the ministry-and conquered those as well.
The first rap records were released 40 years ago, born out of a do-it-yourself urban culture where DJs replaced bands and kids expressed themselves by crafting raucous rhymes to flow over the records’ beats. Part of the AARP Hip-Hop at Middle Age seriesĮn español | What began as a New York City youth movement in the 1970s has gone on to become a global phenomenon.
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