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Hip hop culture is characterized by the key elements of rapping [b], DJing and turntablism, and breakdancing; [9][10] other elements include graffiti, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip hop fashion. [11][12] From hip hop culture emerged a new genre of popular music, hip hop music.
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 ...
Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music pioneered by Atlanta rappers T.I., Jeezy, and Gucci Mane, which originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999. [1][3] The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term "trap house", a house used exclusively to sell ...
New Zealand rapper King Kapisi (Bill Urale) made a basketball-themed music video for his 2005 single "Raise Up". Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [ 1 ]emceeing[ 2 ] or MCing[ 2 ][ 3 ]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular ". [ 4 ]
Freestyle rap. Freestyle is a style of hip hop music where an artist improvises an unwritten verse from the head, with or without instrumental beats, in which lyrics are recited with no particular subject or structure. [1][2][3][4][5] It is similar to other improvisational music, such as jazz, [6] where a lead instrumentalist acts as an ...
41. The Showboys – “Drag Rap” (1986) The ‘80s hip-hop song that influenced the sound of southern rap the most may have actually been made in Queens. A Hollis duo put together a novelty ...
Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, [1] urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of Black genres such as R&B, pop-rap ...
Old-school hip hop. Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre. It typically refers to the music created around 1979 to 1983, [1] as well as any hip hop that does not adhere to contemporary styles. [2]