Rapping first gained popularity in the U.S in the 1975 as a kind of street art, especially among African American teenagers. but it was not until 1979,when the Sugerhill Gang released their breakaway hit,Rappers Delight, that record producers took notice of this emerging musical genre.
Rap has a genre began at block parties in New York City in early 1970s,when DJs began isolating the percussion breaks of funk, soul and disco songs and extending them over time, it became common for the MCS(or rappers, as they soon became known)to talk to rhyme over and in sync with the music.
One of the first rappers at the beginning of the hip hop period, at the end of the 1970s,was also hip hops first DJ,DJ Kool here. hereto Jamaican immigrant, started delivering simple raps at his parties, which some claim were inspired by the Jamaican tradition of toasting. Hip hop music also called hip hop or rap music is a genre of popular music developed in the United States by inner city African Americans and latino Americans in the Bronx borough of New York city in the 1970s. rap music uses simple lyrics and chords.hip hop was doing a lost of interesting thing production wise that I think was pushing music forward says the 27 year old dj whose unique sound elements of emd genres with styles from his native Heiti.hip hop is a culture derived from disco and the development of funk.during the early 70s many funk groups began playing disco because at the time it was the latest trend.drawing from disco production techniques funk music started to become technology driven as it absorbed more electronic sounds from synthesisers and drum machines.due to an economic collapse,disco ‘s and night clubs closed their doors because there was no more funding in place.as a result ,urban youth Brough the party to the streets with portable audio equipment called”sound systems”which was introduced by Jamaican culture.djs would mix together percussive breaks in songs blending and mixing breaks was a common technique used in jamaican dub music and was leter introduced to new york mostly by immigrants from the caribbean.dj kool herc,who has been called the founding father of hip-hop ,removed the instrumental parts of the mix, emphasizing the drumbeat, or break ,and switched from one break to another using a pair of turntables. technology that shaped rap the previously mentioned roland TR -808,was one of the first programmable drum machines.as rap music developed, live drummers were replaced by drum machines and an increased use of djs who would scratch records to add a percussive element to the music.legendary samplers like akai s MPC let producers to take a section of a song and edit it to play as an instrument in a sequence or add extra sound and texture. around this time sampling technology emerged and drum machines became widely accessible to the general publi-c at a cost that was affordable to the average consumer.DJs also started to become producers and began using sampling technology to piece together breaks in songs rather than using turntables.rap -a wider part of the hip hop culture rappers are skilled at improvising lyrics and they must keep up with the beat. rap s a delivery style that includes rhyme, rhyme,and spoken language, usually explicit and delivered over a beat. a pre- recorded track, composed of electronic instrumentation or drum beats, is played in the background, while the rapper recites the song lyrics.It s a part of the wider hip – hop culture, which includes the spoken word the Mc ,the beat the DJ, break- dancing,and graffiti art. it is thought that rap.Instrumentation (which instruments are playing)
| Blues fans would seem to have a natural affinity with rap. After all, while fans of the Beatles or Beethoven can complain that it’s just some guy talking over a repetitive, monotonous rhythm, we consider John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie And yet, a lot of blues fans and artists have gone on record attacking rap. Some have undoubtedly thought their arguments through in detail, but all too many just come off as knee-jerk conservatives, dismissing hip-hop without ever having stopped to listen and give the style a fair chance. Obviously, everyone is free to support or dis whatever music they want — but they risk sounding as absurd as those who once dismissed urban electric bands as “the blues in decadence . . . a picture of a violent and decadent society.” (Alan Lomax, in 1959.) It is true that hip-hop has not produced anything to equal the haunting soulfulness of, say, Skip James — but if we are going to make that our standard, what music has in the last thirty years? Certainly not blues. There are still some excellent musicians working in the blues idiom, and I’ve seen some fine live shows in the last year, but pretty much all my desert island blues discs were recorded back when the style was still fresh and the audience was young, hip, and coming from the same communities as the performers. And I’m not just talking about black people — Hank Williams used the blues idiom to speak for his time and place as much as Robert Johnson did. But how much blues in the year 2004 is about the neighborhoods where the singers live, as they are today? How many blues lyrics reflect the way the singers talk when they are not onstage? How many have space for cell phones and computers, except as joke lines in novelty numbers? The new recordings that get filed as “blues” are mostly nostalgic recreations of past sounds, some fine, some lousy, but almost none reflecting either the musical or societal changes of the last few decades. There are exceptions, of course. Both Corey Harris and Chris Thomas King have experimented with blues-hip-hop fusions — not to mention the Fat Possum remixes of R.L. Burnside — but while these experiments were interesting to some broadminded blues fans, they did not excite any attention in the rap world, for a very good reason: Hip-hop is not easy music to do, and the top people are working at a level that is very hard to reach. For me, that was the revelation of The Hip Hop Box. To readers under thirty, the brilliance of hip-hop production is probably old news, but for most of us older blues fans, the beats were always a stumbling block. We could hear that rappers were descended from bluesmen (and, far more rarely, blueswomen), but the sampled disco tracks and mechanical rhythm machines had a sterility that seemed like the antithesis of everything we loved about blues. Even though I was never one of the “sampling isn’t music” crew, I could not work up much enthusiasm for Grandmaster Flash’s background for “The Message,” much as I loved Melle Mel’s streetwise lyrics. So, if the music is so great and has such a close relationship to blues, why do so many blues fans still find it annoying or inaccessible? Part of the reason, of course, is cultural. Embracing older black music is always easier for white outsiders than embracing the music of the present-day urban ghettos. But that is too simple an answer — after all, white buyers account for the majority of rap sales, and there are plenty of black people who find rap obnoxious. (In any case, this is too big a discussion for a brief music article.) For any longtime blues fan, hip-hop should not be a major stretch. After all, it is coming from the same kind of communities and artists who produced our favorite records. As John Jackson, the acoustic guitarist from northern Virginia told me years ago, “I don’t play soul or disco or rap music or nothing like that, but I don’t have anything against it; it just didn’t come along when I did.” If Robert Johnson had been born in 1975, can anyone honestly argue that he would not have been caught up in the humor and passion of Straight Out of Compton? His descendants in the Mississippi Delta of the late 1980s responded to LA’s gangsta rappers just as he did to the promise of “Sweet Home Chicago.” If the words were less optimistic and the backing more relentlessly, aggressively urban, that is the truth of the times. |
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