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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 ...
American rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) sporting a hip-hop look at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, June 3, 2010. 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]
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
The hit rapper-turned-Olympics sweetheart gets candid about his wild ride in this week's PEOPLE cover story Snoop Dogg on His Surprising Journey from Rap Rebel to 'America's Most Lovable Person ...
Though Jones left Rap City in 1991 to pursue his own entrepreneurial endeavors, the show went on to introduce the world to rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter in 1990 and air Notorious B.I.G.'s final ...
Psychedelic rap (or psychedelic hip hop) is a microgenre that fuses hip hop music with psychedelia. [2] The genre's otherworldy sound was influenced by psychedelic rock and soul , funk and jazz , utilizing breaks and samples that create a hallucinogenic effect.
Rap's roots lie in the toasting traditions of Jamaica's sound-system live events, where DJs thrilled crowds with deliveries evolved in part from America's jive-talking radio stars.
[55] [56] Many of the people who helped establish hip hop culture, including DJ Kool Herc, DJ Disco Wiz, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa were of Latin American or Caribbean origin. DJ Kool Herc is widely recognized as the creator of hip-hop, credited with pioneering the technique of extending the instrumental "breakbeat" on a record ...