What is Hip-Hop? The Hip-Hop culture is mainly known by its elements; breakdancing (B-boying), graffiti, Mcing (Rapping), and beatboxing. These elements are forms of art to express deeper meaning. It is more then just art and entertainment. Hip-Hop is the constantly evovling spirit, of urban youth that keeps beign recreated in a never-ending cycle. The hisotry of Hip-Hop originated in the 60th of the 20th century and it still contiunes to this present day. It orignated in New York in the Bonx and among the ghetto of blacks and latinos. The beginning of Hip-Hop, the roots, were found in African Amercian and West African.