Here are the answers to the questions based on the reading passage:
1. How are hip hop and disco related?
Hip hop started as a response to disco. While disco was popular in the 1970s and focused on wealth and status, hip hop emphasized reality and community instead.
2. Why do you think hip hop is an important music genre for African Americans?
It served as an artistic outlet and gave them a new way to tell stories about their own lives. It also helped them deal with difficult things about city life.
3. What are two things DJs did to make new sounds?
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DJs put different pieces of music together and arranged the beats so that rappers could find a rhythm.
4. What is one notable...?
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Hip hop was born at a birthday party in the Bronx, NY.
5. In your own words, write a definition for rapping.
Rapping is talking over music using words that rhyme, usually spoken in time with the beat.
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