Derange da Messiah, hailing from Lansing, Michigan, has been making waves over the past few years, traveling across the country and gaining recognition. He recently appeared in Atlanta on the “On the Porch” episode with Dirty Glove Bastard and collaborated with artists like Spice-1, Raiden Rush, and Bootleg. Now, he’s back with his latest project titled “Bandemic,” featuring a new visual called “Let These Ni**as Tell It,” which is available on all streaming platforms.
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip-hop includes rapping often enough that the terms can be used synonymously. However, “hip-hop” more properly denotes an entire subculture. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks. Cultural interchange has always been central to the hip-hop genre. It simultaneously borrows from its social environment while commenting on it.
The hip-hop genre and culture emerged from block parties in ethnic minority neighborhoods of New York City, particularly Bronx. DJs began expanding the instrumental breaks of popular records when they noticed how excited it would make the crowds. The extended instrumental breaks provided a platform for break dancers and rappers. These breakbeats enabled the subsequent evolution of the hip-hop style. Many of the records used were disco due to its popularity at the time.
This disco-inflected music is known as old-school hip-hop. The genre became more stylistically diverse in the 1980s as electro music started to inform new-school hip-hop. The transition between the mid-1980s and 1990s became known as hip-hop’s Golden age as the genre started to earn wide critical acclaim and generate massive sales.
