CONTOH INFORMATIONAL REPORT TEXT

HIP-HOP MUSIC

Hip-hop is one of many genres in music. This kind of music is very popular, especially in USA and Europe. It also becomes the culture of black people in those countries. But in the other ones, hip-hop is music for minority and is known by only little community.
Hip-hop came from Jamaican music, which used drums and basses in their performance. But, the word ‘hip-hop’ itself, was first introduced in South Bronx, New York, by a man called as ‘The Grandfather of Hip-Hop’, Afrika Bambaata. He also divided the culture of hip-hop into four elements: rap, break dancing, graffiti, and DJ-ing. Rap is also known as MC-ing, and is the way we sing by using rhymes on the lyric, while break dancing is an extreme dance which includes acrobatic style in the performance. Graffiti is the art of painting on the wall. But it is often assumed as vandalism by many people. DJ-ing is manipulating sounds or recordings into new ones. It requires a tool named ‘turntable’ and it also is divided into two styles: cutting and scratching.
At the beginning, hip-hop had a purpose to give amusement. But, in 1980’s especially in USA, it grew to be a music which was related to black people, drugs, and crime. Although this music still has bad reputation, many artists around the world keep trying to bring good messages such as peace, friendship, or love in their songs. Some of them are Black Eyed Peas, Too Phat, Eminem, etc. In Indonesia, hip-hop music is spread by Iwa K, Saykoji, Fade 2 Black, etc.
In conclusion, although this music is not well known as other ones, hip-hop still has little community which supports its existence. Even, in major countries in North America and Europe, it is very popular, and becomes the culture of the people. Not always the black ones.