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DJ Grandmaster Flash in 1999 Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans. Hip-hop culture has historically been ...
Genge - from Kenya. Hip hop galsen - from Senegal. Hipco - from Liberia. Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana. Igbo rap - from Southeast Nigeria. Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion. Motswako - from Botswana and South Africa. Zenji flava - from Tanzania. European.
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 ...
D12 (an initialism for the Dirty Dozen) was an American hip hop collective from Detroit, Michigan.Formed in 1996, the group achieved mainstream success with its lineup of de facto leader Eminem, [3] Proof, Bizarre, Mr. Porter, Kuniva and Swifty McVay.
Freestyle rap. Freestyle is a style of hip hop music where an artist normally improvises an unwritten verse from the head, with or without instrumental beats, in which lyrics are recited with no particular subject or structure. It can also be a written verse with no particular subject. [1][2][3][4][5] It is similar to other improvisational ...
How to Rap. How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC is a book on hip hop music and rapping by Paul Edwards. It is compiled from interviews with 104 notable rappers who provide insights into how they write and perform their lyrics. [1][2][3] How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow & Delivery Techniques is a sequel to the book, also on hip hop music ...
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present is a nonfiction book by Mark Costello and David Foster Wallace. The book explores the music genre's history as it intersected with historical events, either locally and unique to Boston, or in larger cultural or historical contexts.
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