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- DictionaryRap/rap/
verb
- 1. strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention: "he stood up and rapped the table"
- 2. perform rap music: "he raps under the name of Mr. T"
noun
- 1. a quick, sharp knock or blow: "there was a confident rap at the door"
- 2. a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over a prerecorded, typically electronic instrumental backing: "the label specializes in rap and modern soul"
Feb 6, 2024 · The history of rap is one of transformation and reinvention, rooted in the centuries-old African American oral tradition and encompassing the blues, jazz, and the civil rights movement’s charged spoken word performances.
Apr 1, 2024 · Rap, which originated in African American communities in New York City, came to national prominence with the Sugar Hill Gang’s “ Rapper’s Delight” (1979). Rap’s early stars included Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, Public Enemy (who espoused a radical political message), and the Beastie Boys. The late ...
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Rap music (also referred to as rap or hip-hop music) evolved in conjunction with the cultural movement called hip-hop. Rap emerged as a minimalist street sound against the backdrop of the heavily orchestrated and formulaic music coming from the local house parties to dance clubs in the early 1970s.
Hip-hop or hip hop music, also known as rap, and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
- Early 1970s, the Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Rap is sometimes said to be an acronym for 'Rhythm And Poetry', though this is not the origin of the word and so may be a backronym. Roots and origin The Memphis Jug Band , an early blues group, whose lyrical content and rhythmic singing predated rapping
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Rap is the musical practice of hip hop culture that features vocalists, or MCs, reciting lyrics over an instrumental beat that emerged out of the political and economic transformations of New York City after the 1960s.
Feb 22, 2007 · Rap as a genre began at block parties in New York City in the early 1970s, when DJs began isolating the percussion breaks of funk, soul, and disco songs and extending them. MCs tasked with...
