weareyouth

Hip-hop isn’t just music. It’s a language. If you think this genre is just a Spotify playlist, you’re missing half the story. In reality, it’s so much more: it’s a system of codes, aesthetics, and attitudes that has shaped the way young people express themselves for over 50 years. And spoiler alert: it still does today. Born in the 1970s in the Bronx as the voice of marginalized communities, hip-hop was initially pure counterculture. Block parties, graffiti, breakdancing. Z