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Eventually, Chinese immigrants introduced keno to the West when they sailed across the Pacific Ocean to help build the First Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century, where the name was Westernized into boc hop bu and puck-apu.
Savoy dancer " Shorty " George Snowden stated that " We used to call the basic step the Hop long before Lindbergh did his hop across the Atlantic.
" Malt and hop " stores popped up across the country and some former breweries turned to selling malt extract syrup, ostensibly for baking and " beverage " purposes.
The group's work has had a lasting influence across genres ranging from hip hop and techno to acid house and general melodic music.
African American musical styles became an integral part of American popular music through blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and then rock and roll, soul and hip hop ; all of these styles were consumed by Americans of all races, but were created in African American styles and idioms before eventually becoming common in performance and consumption across racial lines.
While most spam originates in the U. S., spammers hop through open relays across political boundaries to mask their origin.
Hip hop spread across the country and diversified.
Soon after, Daddy Yankee caught the attention of many big names in hip hop with his song " Gasolina ", propelling the style across the country.
Waila ( or chicken scratch music of the Tohono O ' odham ) has gained performers like the Joaquin Brothers fame across Native American communities, while hip hop crews like WithOut Rezervation and Robby Bee & the Boyz From the Rez ( Reservation of Education ) have a distinctively Native American flourish to hip hop.
B2K, a hip hop, pop and R & B group, was made up of teenage boys, so it was considered a boy band and was popular across the world, though their they were only active from 2001-2004.
Hip hop fashion has changed significantly during its history, and today, it is a prominent part of popular fashion as a whole across the world and for all ethnicities.
They play across genres, including hard bop, big band, and can be considered innovators of smooth jazz and even hip hop.
Decades later, aviation journalist Harry Harper wrote that until de Laroche made her celebrated flight on the Voisin she had never flown except once, for a short hop, as a passenger ; when she first took the controls Charles Voisin expressly forbade her to attempt a flight ; and after taxiing twice across the airfield she took off, flying " ten or fifteen feet high " and handling the controls with " cool, quick precision ".
As Australia drifted north toward Asia, the collision pushed up the Indonesian archipelago and the mountains of New Guinea, which allowed podocarp species to hop across the narrow straits into humid Asia, with P. macrophyllus reaching north to southern China and Japan.
Andreana Clay in her article “ Keepin ’ it Real: Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity ” states that hip hop provides the world with “ vivid illustrations of Black lived experience ” creating bonds of black identity across the globe.
Unaccompanied or A cappella styles of singing are performed across the modern Celtic world due to the folk music revival, popularity of Celtic choirs, world music, scat singing and hip hop rapping in Celtic languages.
David Dacoine, a member of Tribal Wizdom, has hosted workshops across Canada encouraging aboriginal youth to take up hip hop as a method of creative expression and self-empowerment.
By the end of the decade, hip hop had spread across the country, especially in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Meanwhile, hip hop was continuing its spread from the East Coast to most major urban areas across the country, and abroad.
Uncle Ben wrote about planned " Seadromes ," floating airports that airplanes could use to hop across the Atlantic.
However, the younger generation, especially those in the urban areas, were more curious and receptive ; they were more positively in-tuned to receive this new culture that was creating waves across the globe, which was further expedited and cemented by the introduction of records from American hip hop artists like the N. W. A, Brand Nubian, Gang Starr, Cypress Hill and many others.
The launch of MTV Arabia in 2007 brought FredWreck to his roots in the middle east, where he co-hosted ( Hip HopNa ) a hip hop talent search across Arabia with friend and partner Qusai ( aka Don Legend the Kamelion ).
Originally staged at the areál koupaliště Cihelna in Pardubice, Hip Hop Kemp has become a meeting place for fans of hip hop culture from across the globe.

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Marrow and other Crips wrote and performed " Crip Rhymes ", long before the advent of hip hop and recorded rapping.
From the mid-1960s on, as " rock and roll " yielded gradually to " rock ", later dance genres followed, starting with the twist, and leading up to funk, disco, house, techno, and hip hop.
" Roll the Bones ", for instance, exhibits funk and hip hop elements, and the instrumental track " Where's My Thing?
Characterized by sparse, hard-hitting beats — as typified on hits like " It's Like That ", and " Peter Piper "— this would form the foundation of hardcore hip hop ( particularly hardcore East Coast hip hop ).
Ryuichi Sakamoto, particularly his song " Riot in Lagos ", had an influence on early electro and hip hop artists such as Afrika Bambaata, and was cited by Kurtis Mantronik as a major influence on his electro hip hop group Mantronix.
It has been described as " Europe's alternative choice in the second half of the ' 90s ", and " a fusion of hip hop and electronica until neither genre is recognisable.
In the June 1994 issue of UK magazine Mixmag, music journalist Andy Pemberton used it to describe the hip hop instrumental " In / Flux ", a 1993 single by San Francisco's DJ Shadow, and other similar tracks released on the Mo ' Wax label and being played in London clubs at the time.
Their best-known single, " Genius of Love ", has been sampled numerous times, notably on old school hip hop classic " It's Nasty ( Genius of Love )" by Grandmaster Flash and on Mariah Carey's 1995 hit " Fantasy ".
The portmanteau word wigger ( white + nigger ) denotes a white person emulating " street black behavior ", hoping acceptance to the hip hop, thug, and gangsta sub-cultures.
In 2002, Furtado appeared on the song " Thin Line ", on underground hip hop group Jurassic 5's album Power in Numbers.
In one common variation, once a player is reduced to three pieces, his pieces may " fly ", " hop " or " jump " to any empty spots, not only adjacent ones.
Much of their work has been inspired by hip hop music, as suggested in the cover song " Wicked ", and " All in the Family ".
Although frequently referred to as the hop " vine ", it is technically a bine ; unlike vines, which use tendrils, suckers, and other appendages for attaching themselves, bines have stout stems with stiff hairs to aid in climbing.
One notable exception is the song " The Message ", which was written by Melle Mel for his hip hop group, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five.
The phrase " leader of the new school ", coined in hip hop by Chuck D in 1988, and presumably given further currency by the group with the exact name Leaders of the New School ( who were named by Chuck D prior to signing with Elektra in 1989 ), remains popular.
Other important crews and rappers include Bologna's Camelz in Effect with their unforgettable early hit " Slega la Lega ", Sangue Misto with their 1994 album SMX, the political crew 99 Posse whose music have influences from world music to trip hop.
The importance of language in Swiss hip hop can also create tension, however: Although the members of the Italian speaking group Stoffunita live in Switzerland and consider it their home, their choice of language combined with their lack of Swiss citizenship earmark them as " Secondo ", a term used to indicate people of foreign descent born in Switzerland.
Given Switzerland's particularly strong opinions on who is " Swiss " and who is " other ", it is easy to see that groups such as Stoffunita make use of the fact that hip hop " is still considered a voice for the oppressed " as hip hop scholar and author Jeff Chang notes.
The European Music Office's report on Music in Europe claimed that Switzerland's hip hop scene is " particularly innovative and advanced ", featuring Unik Records ( the first European indie rap label ).
But nationalism is not absent from the German rap scene ; on the contrary, there is an implicit ( and sometimes explicit ) conflict over national identity that finds expression, on the one hand, in charges that the attempt to form a ' German ' rap culture is inherently exclusionary, and on the other, in the growth of a counter-nationalism in the form of ethnic-Turkish or so-called ' Oriental hip hop '" ( 142 ) In " From Krauts with attitudes to Turks with attitudes: some aspects oh hip hop history in Germany ", written by Dietmar Eleflein, " Yet at the same time, the title Krauts with Attitude also played with a kind of non-dissident identification of a part of the West German hip-hop scene with its role models.

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