Today's Google Doodle is an interactive turntable in celebration of Hip Hop
POLOKWANE – Hip hop music is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping.
Today, 11 August, is the celebration of the birth of this unique music genre, starting 44 years ago.
As Google users open the Google homepage, the interactive Google Doodle informs you of this celebration.
When you click on the doodle, a video starts with an information piece on Hip Hop.
Clicking on this interactive Doodle, there are two turn tables that let you mix your own sample of music.
Skipping this you get a tutorial with two LP’s where you can create your own mix.
This tutorial helps you by showing you each step to take after which you can start mixing your own tracks using your computer mouse.
The doodle allows you to pick different hip hop tracks that you can mix with and you then take control of the decks.
Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard
