Robert Moses and the Cross Bronx Expressway

Moses is responsible for the cross Bronx Expressway which is in a big part responsible for Hip-hop

Now how is this all linked to one another?? 

"Robert Moses was the "master builder" of 20th century New York City, an advocate of a controversial style of urban planning that favored the construction of new highways over the preservation of existing neighborhoods."

He had a vision about progress and modernity. His vision was to make NY even bigger than what it was and one of his ways to do that was to destroy the Bronx neighborhood and built the cross Bronx expressway. In other words he was 'destructing for improvement'

Now why did this bridge have such an impact on the creation of hip hop??? 

When the construction started all the houses near the high way lost their value because people didn't want to live near a highway, so if they could they left. which meant that the only people that would live there were the ones that couldn't afford to live anywhere else. It was like a warzone, teenagers were fighting against each other, and they were forming gangs in the neighborhood.

But this is when the beauty started. The gangs started to have dance battles instead of fighting and started to rap against each other instead of insulting each other. 

A new culture was starting, this new culture was created out of destruction, the way all these people were coping with their terrible situation was by expressing it in Art.

This destruction that was transformed in to art is HIP-HOP.