1. A practice that began in Jamaica and included one participant roasting their rival using verbal skills over music
2. A musical genre that was deeply influential to hip-hop and flourished right alongside it in the mid-late 1970s
3. An artist responsible for both choosing records played and also how they will be played
4. Born in Jamaica, but moved to the Bronx, where he would eventually host parties where he would extend the instrumental break in music in order to lengthen the most danceable sections, forming the foundation for rap/hip hop
5. The song, by Debbie Harry of Blondie, that was the first #1 hit to include rap in a mainstream song
6. The method of dragging a needle across a record, interrupting the “normal” flow of the record and producing a harsh sound
7. The birthplace of hip hop and rap
8. A component of another record that is taken in part or on the whole and sewn into the fabric of a new piece of music
9. An artist with a major influence on the DJs of the New York scene that created several new techniques, including scratching
10. The hip hop technique which allowed the musical sections available for dancing to last as long as the DJ wished
11. A key component of hip hop’s development, with the music borrowing elements from many of the ethnic and cultural groups that intermingled in the South Bronx
12. The type of gymnastic, competitive dancing that took place during the breaks
13. The first hip-hop record was “Rapper’s Delight”
14. Verbal performance that relies on both the context of the words and the aesthetic expression of the language
15. A form of vocal percussion where the voice and mouth are used to create a variety of sounds that create a rhythmic backbone for a rapper or MC to work over
16. A visual expression of hip-hop culture, using aerosol paint to display a name (a tag) on a pre-existing surface