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Tunnel Rats is a West Coast underground hip hop collective founded in 1993 in Whittier, California.Named after the tunnel rats in the Vietnam War, the mixed-gender, multi-racial collective consists of some seventeen individual members and incorporates four affiliated groups, LPG, Future Shock, Foundation, and New Breed, which have recorded both within Tunnel Rats and independently.
In 2017, music critic Jon Caramanica of The New York Times opined that SoundCloud rap "in the last year has become the most vital and disruptive new movement in hip-hop". [23] Todd Moscowitz , the founder of Alamo Records, called the scene a " lo-fi movement" noting the heavily distorted bass and intentional lack of polish in the sound.
Emo rap is a subgenre of hip hop with influence from emo. [7] Originating from the SoundCloud rap scene in the mid-2010s, [8] the genre fuses characteristics of hip hop music, such as trap-style beats with vocals that are usually sung.
Rap is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, and so commonly associated with the genre that it is sometimes called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music include the West African griot tradition, [7] certain vocal styles of blues [8] and jazz, [9] an African-American insult game called playing the dozens (see Battle rap and Diss), [10 ...
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Hip-Hop Evolution is a Canadian music documentary television series that originally aired on HBO Canada in 2016. [1] Hosted by Juno Award -winning artist Shad , the series profiles the history of hip-hop music through interviews with many of the genre's leading cultural figures. [ 2 ]
[2] He learned to rap, and also took up dance, graffiti, and formal drawing and painting. [3] Discovered by underground hip hop collective Tunnel Rats, he made his debut in 2002 on Speak Life by Sev Statik. [4] In 2003, Petty joined the Tunnel Rats, and on April 8, 2003, released his solo debut album with UpRok Records, entitled Out of Knowhere.
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.