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5 days ago · Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (’rapped’) to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling, is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying, graffiti painting, and break dancing.
Dec 10, 2021 · NPR Music's Best Hip-Hop of 2021: Isaiah Rashad, Lukah, Don Toliver and more This year's best hip-hop — including Westside Gunn, Mach-Hommy and Moor Mother — comes from death and defiance ...
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Aug 6, 2023 · The spoken-word-with-music album signals the rap-fueled hip-hop revolution to follow. 1973: At an Aug. 12 Brooklyn house party, DJ Kool Herc creates the break-beat, a foundational element in hip-hop.
Hip hop became a worldwide phenomenon at this point, too, with new audiences and artists emerging in places like Tokyo, Cape Town, London, and Paris. By the turn of the century, hip hop was the best-selling music genre in the United States. Hip Hop in the 21st Century. The 21st century was a tough time for the music industry.
Aug 11, 2023 · Hip Hop’s Golden Age. From around 1986-95, hip hop went through a period of unprecedented creativity. As part of mainstream culture but, crucially, not bound by the restrictions of major labels, rappers and producers explored every avenue of beat production, flow and lyrical topics, together with sampling from a huge range of old records.
Aug 5, 2023 · Nearly 50 years ago, on August 11, 1973, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the rec room of their apartment building in the Bronx. And presiding over it all was deejay Kool Herc. Since ...
Dec 5, 2012 · Hot, Cool and Vicious, 1986. Salt-N-Pepa’s libidinous jam was one of the first rap records to top the dance charts, and it remains as dependable a party-starter as any song of the hip-hop era.
