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Chopper is a hip hop music subgenre that originated in the Midwestern United States and features fast-paced rhyming or rapping. [1] [2] Those that rap in the style are known as choppers, and rapping in the style is sometimes referred to as chopping.
A global, multilingual list of rhythm and blues and contemporary R&B musicians recognized via popular R&B genres as songwriters, instrumentalists, vocalists, mixing engineers, and for musical composition and record production.
It was the first hip-hop record to gain widespread popularity in the mainstream and was where hip-hop music got its name from (from the opening bar). [111] However, much controversy surrounds this assertion as some regard the March 1979 single "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" by the Fatback Band, as a rap record. [112]
The top rankings were unveiled on February 8, 2023, which crowned Jay-Z the greatest rapper of all time and Nicki Minaj the greatest female rapper of all time. It sparked multiple debates within the hip hop industry, many of whom criticized the publications and artists featured in the premier positions.
Rap (currency), the Romansh name for the sub-unit of the Swiss franc; a counterfeit coin or something of negligible value, especially in Ireland; AVV RAP, a former football club from Amsterdam; RAP sheet (Record of Arrest and Prosecution sheet), a criminal record; Rapper sword, a style of traditional sword-dancing from Northern England
A rapper refers to a performer who "raps". By the late 1960s, when Hubert G. Brown changed his name to H. Rap Brown, rap was a slang term referring to an oration or speech, such as was common among the "hip" crowd in the protest movements, but it did not come to be associated with a musical style for another decade. [25]
Southern hip-hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip-hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip-hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida—often titled "The Big 5," five states which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music.