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It seems that hip-hop music is ubiqrutous these days, from popular radio to TV commercials. Whatever your opinion of hip-hop music may be, there is no denying it has impacted pop culture around the world, and shows no signs of slowing down. 现在，从大众广播到电视广告，嘻哈音乐似乎无所不在。不管你对嘻哈音乐的看法怎么样，无可否认它已经对世界各地的通俗文化造成了冲击，并且没有减弱的迹象。 Hip-hop brings with it its own unique terminology. Rap is the literal action of speaking over a beat. Hip-hop is both a kind of music and a culture, which includes four main elements: emceeing , deejaying , breaking , and graffih art . Along with these are other distinctive. aspects ofhip-hop culture such as language and fashion. 嘻哈风带来了一些专有术语： 说唱乐 是指配合节奏念文字的动作。 嘻哈 既是一种音乐，同时也是一种文化，嘻哈文化包含4大要素 MC (随节奏说唱)、 DJ (转动唱片及混音)、 霹雳舞 (一种特技般的舞蹈)，和 涂鸦艺术_o除此之外嘻哈文化还有其他一些特殊 的方面，如语言和服装时尚等。 Hip-hop has its roots in the African traditions of percussion and oral storytelling. Its modernorigins, however, can be found in New York Citys crime-ridden South Bronx in the early 1970s. Fed up with the insipid disco of the times, youth who were short on money but rich in ingenuity created a new, dynamic art form: verbally competing and chronfcling life in the ghetto by rapping poetry over a beat. | 
