The practice of turntablism was born in hip hop, and its performance format of the MC (vocalist) and the DJ (musician). As hip hop evolved through the nineties, however, the importance of the DJ decreased as the use of new studio techniques were preferred. As the DJs were distanced from the genre, they went underground and created a sub-culture of their own.
Hip hop DJs were now isolated from the MC culture, and left to concentrate purely on using DJ decks and a mixer to manipulate sounds
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