Rap

Youth protest movement that exploded, at the beginning of the 1980s, out of the run-down inner-city areas of the largest American metropolises. It has influenced the spheres of music (rap or hip-hop), painting (graffiti), and social lifestyle in general, with its powerful denunciation of the collapse of the large cities. More than being creative in artistic terms, rap adopts styles that have been developed previously, interpreting them and reinventing them in a system of “recycling” that also affected the aesthetics of clothing: rappers had short hair, trimmed above the ears, wore second-hand clothes, oversized Bermuda shorts, jogging outfits, bomber jackets, baseball hats, and jogging shoes.