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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 late 1960s and early 1970s primarily from African American, Afro-Latin, and Afro-Caribbean musical aesthetics practiced by youth in the South Bronx.
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'", [67] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
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.
Before it was a global movement, it was simply an expression of life and struggle: a culture that was synonymous with hardship and suffering, but also grit, resilience and creativity. Hip-hop rose ...
The rise of rap inspired a whole new breed of answer songs, though, most famously with dozens of songs created in the wake of Brooklyn group UTFO’s playful hit about a girl named Roxanne.
East Coast hip-hop is a regional subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s. [3] [4] Hip-hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in The Bronx, New York City.
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 ]