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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.
The music of German rapper Casper, which was influenced by both hip hop and bands like Give up the Ghost, Modern Life is War, and Grave Digger, was often referred to as "emo rap" early on in his career. [36] Huffington Post writer Kia Makarechi described American group Hollywood Undead as "crass emo-rap" in 2012 article. [37]
Ratking (often stylized in all caps as RATKING) was an American hip hop group from New York City, which consisted of rappers Wiki and Hak, and producer Sporting Life.A leading force in the underground in the early 2010s, their music has been described as "stridently youthful", [1] and the group themselves have stated they wished to reinvent rap music.
The music developed as part of the broader hip-hop culture; while often used to refer solely to rapping and rap music, "hip-hop" more properly denotes the practice(s) of the entire subculture. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The term hip-hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music , [ 9 ] [ 12 ] though rapping may not be the focus of hip-hop ...
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 ...
[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.
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 ]
Phonk (/ f ɒ ŋ k / ⓘ) is a subgenre of hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap.The genre is characterized by its use of vintage Memphis rap vocals, chopped and screwed production techniques, and samples from early 1990s hip hop, often combined with samples from jazz and funk.