What is rap?

This is a long story. It is suggested to search for rap on the Internet, and many related articles can be found. Simply put, rap is a kind of casual and rhythmic pop music that originated from American streets.

The origin of rap music can be traced back to the chanting passages in The Roots of Black Music. In the 1970s, rap music formally established its own style, and the most important contribution was attributed to the DJ in the popular disco at that time. They mixed the funk rhythm popular among blacks with the disco rhythm, repeated the contents of the same record on the record player and made their own cycle. With the appearance of DJ's well-known and widely used "disc-playing" method, rap began to be circulated by street black culture and derived quite rich branches. For example, West Coast rap, South rap, pop rap, old-school rap, Midwest rap, Latin rap, hardcore rap and gangster rap. Foreign rap, East Coast rap, cross-border rap, comedy rap, Christian rap, alternative rap, etc. Nowadays, the so-called HIP-HOP is a new word which is born by combining the popular elements. Although as early as the early 1990s, some people thought that this kind of sloppy, abusive and rebellious concert soon disappeared, in fact, in the late 1990s, with the popularity of a group of new rappers and white-dominated rap rock, the music once abandoned by blacks returned to the forefront of pop music, at least in the new century.