<P> The Bronx hip hop scene emerged in the mid-1970s from neighborhood block parties thrown by the Ghetto Brothers, a Puerto Rican group that has been described as being a gang, a club, and a music group . Hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the United States and subsequently the world . These elements were adapted and developed considerably, particularly as the art forms spread to new continents and merged with local styles in the 1990s and subsequent decades . Even as the movement continues to expand globally and explore myriad styles and art forms, including hip hop theater and hip hop film, the four foundational elements provide coherence and a strong foundation for hip hop culture . Hip hop is simultaneously a new and old phenomenon; the importance of sampling tracks, beats and basslines from old records to the art form means that much of the culture has revolved around the idea of updating classic recordings, attitudes, and experiences for modern audiences . Sampling older culture and reusing it in a new context or a new format is called "flipping" in hip hop culture . Hip hop music follows in the footsteps of earlier African - American - rooted musical genres such as blues, jazz, rag - time, funk, and disco to become one of the most practiced genres worldwide . It is the language of urban environments and the youth around the world . According to KRS - One, "Hip hop is the only place where you see Martin Luther King Jr.'s' I Have A Dream Speech' in real life". He also notes that hip hop is beyond something as race, gender or nationality, it belongs to the world . </P> <P> In the 2000s, with the rise of new media platforms and Web 2.0, fans discovered and downloaded or streamed hip hop music through social networking sites (SNS) beginning with Myspace, as well as from websites like YouTube, Worldstarhiphop, SoundCloud, and Spotify . </P> <P> Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has been credited with coining the term in 1978 while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army by scat singing the made - up words "hip / hop / hip / hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers . Cowboy later worked the "hip hop" cadence into his stage performance . The group frequently performed with disco artists who would refer to this new type of music by calling them "hip hoppers". The name was originally meant as a sign of disrespect, but soon came to identify this new music and culture . </P> <P> The song "Rapper's Delight", by The Sugarhill Gang, released in 1979, begins with the phrase "I said a hip, hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, and you don't stop". Lovebug Starski, a Bronx DJ who put out a single called "The Positive Life" in 1981, and DJ Hollywood then began using the term when referring to this new disco rap music . Bill Alder, an independent consultant, once said, "There was hardly ever a moment when rap music was underground, one of the very first so - called rap records, was a monster hit (" Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang on Sugarhill Records). Hip hop pioneer and South Bronx community leader Afrika Bambaataa also credits Lovebug Starski as the first to use the term "hip hop", as it relates to the culture . Bambaataa, former leader of the Black Spades gang, also did much to further popularize the term . The words "hip hop" first appeared in print on September 21, 1982, in The Village Voice in a profile of Bambaataa written by Steven Hager, who also published the first comprehensive history of the culture with St. Martins' Press . </P>

Who is know to coin the term hiphop