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Hip-hop or hip hop (formerly known as disco rap) [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s in New York City. The genre is characterized by stylized rhythmic sounds—often built around disco grooves, electronic drum beats, and rapping, a percussive vocal delivery of rhymed poetic speech as consciousness-raising ...
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 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time" is a music editorial and ranking of the finest rappers in history, published by the American magazines Billboard and Vibe in February 2023. The ranking was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop music's inception and was compiled by the magazines' respective editorial boards. To determine the ...
Throughout hip hop's history, new musical styles and genres have developed that contain rapping. Entire genres, such as rap rock and its derivatives rapcore and rap metal (rock/metal/punk with rapped vocals), or hip house have resulted from the fusion of rap and other styles.
This is a list of notable hip hop musicians. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Paras Griffin/Getty Images; Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs and 50 Cent came up in the rap industry around the same time — and have been feuding for almost as long. While ...
Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre. It typically refers to the music created around 1979 to 1983, [ 1 ] as well as any hip hop that does not adhere to contemporary styles.
The term golden age hip hop frames the late 1980s in mainstream hip hop, [20] said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence, [21] and associated with Public Enemy, KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, [22] [23] De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers [24 ...