Hip-hop is a music genre that according to the people who created it, has sounds heredited from African roots. It was developed in the early 1980's in the streets of the City Of New York as Rap. The people who created it attempted to incorporate positive messages into the sounds of Hip-hop and Rap. That is the harsh way to put it, but even Hip-hop legends have to admit at one time or another that the recent change on Hip-hop has been for the worse: "WireTap: "It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand."