Rap Music - Genre
Rap's germination is sometimes attributed to the righteous street poetry of the Last Poets and the Watts Prophets, but it didn't begin to take full shape -- and earn its tag -- until after the Sugarhill Gang released "Rapper's Delight" in 1979. Since...More »
Popular Rap artists: 2Pac · Nas · Wu-Tang Clan · Dr. Dre · Kanye West · The Notorious B.I.G.
Styles of Rap: Hip-Hop/Urban
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The ESPN documentary "Ali Rap" (airing Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN) is built loosely on the premise that Muhammad Ali unknowingly invented rap music, ...
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Droll. A lot of folks would credit those like Gil Scott-Heron or The Last Poets (who pre-date the Sugarhill Gang et al) with doing the first "spoken-word with a hip-hop background" kind of music. Everybody knows the phrase "T...
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He's been called "the boy who invented rap." He's been called Detroit's fastest rising star. He's also been called lazy and unenthusiastic and is said to lack initiative. But that was by some square boss at a dullsville day job, so that hardly counts.
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Rap Records ... The technique called ‘scratching’ was invented by a DJ called Theodor. ‘Scratching’ involves the DJ spinning a record backwards and forward very fast while the needle is in the groove. A record when it is handled in this way can become a percussive instrument.
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Rapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rapping (also known as emceeing , MCing , spitting (bars) , or just rhyming ) is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry. Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music...
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muhammed ali is a boxer he doesnt do hiphop and blondie >>> hell no sugar hill gang >>> wrong Origins of Rap and Hip Hop Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music which came into exis...
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James Wesley Horne is black and doesnt know anything bout rap cause he is white
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Hi guys ; Has any one of you guys heard of rap music. I heard it the other day and I think it has nice beats. There is this guy they call 50cts. The beats are fat and stupid(meaning great). ... Wow, you heard of rap! Good work! 50 does rap/hip-hop, not full-on rap.
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