Hip-Hop: The Marketing of a New Culture By Victoria Hersh English 110 Professor Vericker 1 May 2000 Hersh i Outline Thesis: Hip-Hop’s has lost its original goal of wanting to unite people, today it's a way to market violence. I. Hip-Hop started in the west Bronx in the early 1970s. A. Hip-Hop wasn’t excepted mainstream until 1979. B. The first known Hip-Hop group was The Sugarhill Gang. II. As the 80s began more people became aware of …showed first 75 words of 2303 total…

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