Old-school hip hop

Old School (German old school or transfer old doctrine) defined in both German and English in a variety of areas a fundamental distinction to a more modern implementation; Old school means that something is as it used to be or is being made. The term is usually positive connotations.

Jargon

Promoted especially by its use in hip-hop, the term ( the youth language in particular ) is part of various jargons become and is now also used in other areas. He describes, for example, cultural heritage, but also mundane things that are still attached in the current period or are in the fashion trend. Occasionally, the term is also directed deliberately against the zeitgeist and is then rather nostalgic to understand.

In competitive sports, the term is used in its original meaning, which speaks rather of outdated dogmas. The aim is to gain by the unexpected manner in which the opponent is not prepared an advantage.

Furthermore, the term is removed from all the jargon as a normal word accepted and used, and then says something fundamentally unfashionable. Occasionally, he also finds in his German translation as old school use.

Music

The hip-hop has taken the concept, publicized and popularized. Especially in the U.S., a new generation of rappers wanted to distinguish them from the early days of rap in the 1970s and early 1980s, and the term was originally used even more negative in the sense that " diss " to the "old style "; that is, the original rappers so in the German sense " frumpy " as classified.

Groups such as under other Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Slick Rick, Kurtis Blow, Treacherous Three, Whodini, Cold Crush Brothers, Funky 4 1, Grandmaster Caz, Rock Steady Crew or Grand Wizard Theodore in the U.S. of the late 1970s and early 1980s were counted them. But even artists such as Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Doug. E Fresh, NWA or LL Cool J were assigned because of their activity in this period, the "old school", although they use, among others, by its Flow technology and the fact not only danceable disco music as a template for their pieces, actually the " new school" are attributed and are to be regarded as the very first representative.

In Germany, much less groups covered by the term old school, since the beginnings of hip-hop in the 1980s in Europe were neither mainstream nor was carried by a larger movement. Bands such as Advanced Chemistry, Stieber Twins, LSD or Cora E. are often mentioned in this context.

In terms of the style of music itself neutralized the term; therefore, it is also old school when something current refers to something in the past; that is, when the music anknüpft back to tradition or returns the music to its roots.

After the term has spread from the hip-hop from, it is used in other genres without special definition and speaks generally of the origins of a style or type of music.