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  2. Rapping - Wikipedia

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    Rap is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, and so commonly associated with the genre that it is sometimes called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music include the West African griot tradition, [7] certain vocal styles of blues [8] and jazz, [9] an African-American insult game called playing the dozens (see Battle rap and Diss), [10 ...

  3. Hip-hop - Wikipedia

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    These artists combined spoken word and music to create a kind of "proto-rap" vibe. [51] Hip-hop as music and culture formed during the 1970s in New York City. As expressed by Mark D. Naison of Fordham University, "Hip hop was born multicultural", gaining influences from African American, Latin American, and Caribbean musical and dancing traditions.

  4. Pop rap - Wikipedia

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    Pop rap (also known as pop hip-hop, pop hop, hip pop, melodic hip-hop or melodic rap) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip hop with pop's preference for melodic vocals, catchy hooks, and positive lyrics on pop-like productions and structure.

  5. Hip hop music - Wikipedia

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    Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...

  6. List of hip-hop genres - Wikipedia

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    Frat rap; G-funk; Hardcore hip hop. Dirty rap; Gangsta rap. Mafioso rap; Horrorcore; Memphis rap; Hyphy. Jerkin' Instrumental hip hop; Latin hip hop. Chicano rap; Lofi hip hop; Miami bass; Mumble rap; Nerdcore. Chap hop; Political hip hop. Conscious hip hop; Progressive rap; Religious hip hop Christian hip hop; Jewish hip hop; Slab music; Snap ...

  7. Freestyle rap - Wikipedia

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    In the book How to Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Myka 9 note that originally a freestyle was a spit on no particular subject – Big Daddy Kane said, "in the '80s, when we said we wrote a freestyle rap, that meant that it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style... it's basically a rhyme just bragging about yourself."

  8. Punk rap - Wikipedia

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    Punk rap is a subgenre of hip hop music influenced by the rebellious ethos, and sometimes musical characteristics, of punk rock. [2] The genre has been described as being influenced by styles such as trap music, [3] punk rock, [2] heavy metal [4] and lo-fi music.

  9. G-funk - Wikipedia

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    G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap [5]) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily influenced by the synthesizer -heavy 1970s funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic (aka P-Funk), often incorporated through samples or re-recordings. [ 4 ]