Hip hop and my love for music

I like to walk through life as a centipede, a renaissance homo universalis: sticking my greedy finger in as many honey pots as a lifetime will allow. As a major component of my love for life, I enjoy trying out, discovering new techniques, arts, sports,...whatever...I want do it all ! Needless to say, this has driven many of my partners to crazyness, because I often transmit this restless image of instability, focussing obsessively on one interest, before moving to the other. My interests in music are no different: I had my new wave period transitioning to grunge, relaxing into reggae, speeding up to techno and returning to rock. Now: hip hop. Where else a better time to dig this than here, in the US, the craddle. I know nothing about it. Absolutely nothing. But I enjoy the beats, and dancing to it: the sweat and the energy, the rythm and the lyrics. Last week I had my first hip hop dance class. Little did I know that hip hop has it's roots in break dance, so with an ex-Michael Jackson co-dancer being our teacher, we got a crash course in some basic "robot" moves. I totally sucked: out of 20 I was by far the worst, but I had SO MUCH FUN ! I found the tune we danced to on the web, a fan made nice music video around it, click on the vido above. Writing this article, I looked on the web for some background info.
Some recurring topics:
the 4 elements of hip hop:
1. Breakdancing
2. Graffiti art
3. DJing
4. MCing

origin: USA, African Americans
reach: global
opinions: Israeli vs Palestinian hip hop
outside US: France, Germany, UK, Caribbean
definition US dep of state: the center of a mega music and fashion industry around the world, crossing social barriers and cuts across racial lines.
definition by National Geographic: the world's favorite youth culture in which just about every country on the planet seems to have developed its own local rap scene. Known to cause violence with the main topic of drugs, sex, violence. (hmmm...it doesn't really do that to me.....but...)

Ok, here we go, let's shake that booty !!!