Numerous major American cultural movements began in the city, such as the Harlem Renaissance, which established the African-American literary canon in the United States. The city was a center of jazz in the 1940s, abstract expressionism in the 1950s, and the birthplace of hip hop in the <answer>1970s</answer>. The city's punk and hardcore scenes were influential in the <answer>1970s</answer> and 1980s. New York has long had a flourishing scene for Jewish American literature.
Which decade did hip hop start to surface in NYC?
1970s