What is rap?

Rap, a word in black slang, is equivalent to "talking", which originated from the poor black community in new york. It is characterized by telling a series of rhyming poems quickly under the background of mechanical rhythm. One of the sources of this form is a fast rhyming jargon used by radio presenters to introduce records in the past. Lepp's lyrics are humorous and often satirical, especially popular among blacks in the 1980s. The most representative band is Public Enemy. Lepp is sometimes called "hip hop". In fact, Heep-Hope has a broader meaning, which refers to various elements of street culture in new york at that time. In addition to Lepp, there are: (Lepp is commonly used) moving the record on the turntable of the phonograph back and forth by hand, making a rhythmic scratching sound; The DJ can't hear the interruption when switching records and splicing music clips. Break dancing and so on.

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The R & ampb style of cursing or R& music and blues music includes rhythmic vocals, which argue with music skillfully. Accompaniment usually includes electronic drums of samples (digitally isolated loud segments) combined from other music recordings. 1979 The first reprimand record was set, and this style became famous in the United States in the mid-1980s. Although this word accuses interchangeability, it is often used with rhythmic and rhythmic music. The latter word includes sub-cultural groups, and rap music is just a simple copy. The music sung with a fixed beat and rhythm is obtained from one of the earliest phrases and used for reprimanding, which may be found in Sugarhill Gang's semen recording "The Joy of the Talker" (1979). In addition to rap music, a music sub-culture group that sings rhythmically with percussion music also includes other forms of expression, including broken dance and street painting art, as well as unique idioms and popular concepts.

This condemnation began in the South Bronx, new york in the mid-1970s. The rise of parallel rock music was born in the 1950s, in many ways (see Rock Music: Rock Music): it originated in the African-American community, was recorded by two small independent record companies, and was almost completely sold to black audiences at first. Through two cases, this new style gradually attracted white musicians, and some of them began to play it. For rock music, this is a white singer from Mississippi, Elvis Presley, who broke the billboard magazine pop music map. In order to reprimand this white group from new york, Beastie boy, and the popular song "Go This Way" (1986), the black reprimand group cooperated with DMC and the white hard rock belt Aerosmith. After 1986, the use of samples and the sound style of clever debate became popular among black and white performers, greatly modifying the previous concept of what constitutes a legitimate song, work or musical instrument.

Musical elements

The reprimand group usually includes at least one speaker and a DJ; Two or more speakers are the same. In the case of two people, the speaker usually plays the role of setting off each other, alternating or completing lines and poems in a seamless style. "Scold" usually uses a format called "response" and features African-American music. The root of word games being reprimanded is the oral contest between African and African-Americans, which is generally considered as the symbol of twelve sums. Pioneers who made the same traditional condemnation of word games included Jamaican toasters (also known as voice artists, talking about recorded music) in the late 1960s and 1970s, African-American radio DJ in the 40s and 1970s, and African-American poets in the 1960s, including the last poet and Watt Prophet. Accusing singing typically emphasizes that lyric poetry and word games end in melody and harmony, so as to achieve interest in lyric poetry through the complexity and change of rhythm. The themes of lyric songs can be roughly divided into three categories: the so-called gangster lifestyle related to interpersonal relationships, which records and often accepts urban slums, and the contemporary political issues or aspects of dealing with black history.

Strengthen the voice of the speaker, and it is equipped with separately recorded music, which is famous for its dependent track. In short, supporting audio tracks emphasizes rhythm accompaniment and timbre (sound quality), rather than denouncing the harmony of recording. In addition, many R& music lacks * * * changes, which is partly due to the fact that R & ampb music is called funk, a highly rhythmic style. Djs originally created two records by playing on the track, and exchanged their fame and mixing skills repeatedly. Occasionally, the DJ will mix a recording so that two people can hear it at the same time. Other techniques are used for early recording (rotating recording backward and moving recording forward to manually create rhythmic sound effects) and fast mixing (combining short and loud bites to create loud collages).

history

Rap music originated from a cross-cultural product. Most important early interns include Koolherc, D.J. Hollywood and Afrika Bambaataa, who are first-generation American immigrants or Caribbean ancestors. Herc and Hollywood believe in introducing Jamaican-style incisions and integrating them into the music culture of the South Bronx. According to most people, Herc was the first DJ to buy two records identical to 15, and the second break (a clip with helpful rhythm) was in the middle. By repeatedly mixing between two copies, he can infinitely double, make or triple the crack. In doing so, Herc deconstructed and effectively reconstructed the so-called sound of discovery, using the turntable as a musical instrument.

When he cuts with two turntables, Herc will also perform jokes, brag, and use Jamaican microphone toasting style to quote countless times in the group. Heck's music parties eventually became infamous and were often provided with cassette tapes or explosive drugs, which were recorded with relatively new speakers. Replicas of these party recordings quickly spread in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan, resulting in a certain number of similar DJ behaviors. Among the DJs, the new variety is Afrika Bambaataa, and the first important black Muslim is reprimanding. The existence of Islam will become very prominent in the late 1980s. Bambaataa often takes part in the battle with Herc's sound system as early as possible, which is similar to the so-called incision competition of the jazz generation. Audio system competitions are held in city parks, hot-line street lamps providing electricity or local clubs. Bambaataa sometimes mixes sounds from rock music and TV programs into standard funk and disco music, which Herc and most of his followers rely on. By using rock records, Bambaataa extends condemnation beyond the direct reference point of contemporary black youth culture. Before 1990s, any sound source thought that competition was fair, and rap artists borrowed sounds from different sources such as Israeli folk music, bebop jazz records and TV news broadcasts.

1976, high-level players instantly introduce skills to mix quickly, and the biting as short as one or two seconds is combined into a collage. At that time, fast hybrid parallel TV was used to quickly edit style advertisements. After the Flash, he was introduced to quick mix, and his partner Melle Mai, a senior chess player, formed the first expanded story in rhyming rebuke. From this point of view, most of the words heard in the works of music program hosts such as Herc, Bambaataa and Flash are impromptu phrases and expressions. 1978 DJ, Grand Wizard Theodore introduced the rhythm style caused by technical grasping.

Rap music

1979 The first and second reprimand records appeared: King Tim III (Personality Jock) recorded by Fatback and Joy of the Talker recorded by Sugarhill Gang. Three Sugarhill gang members recited a series of poems, and "The Joy of the Talker" became a popular song in China, ranking 36th in the pop music map of billboard magazine. The content of the speech, mainly boasting and adding spices to fantasy, was mainly obtained from the material pool and used by most early interlocutors. The track based on "The Joy of the Talker" is provided by hired studio musicians, and the basic concave line (1979) for copying the popular song "Good Times" is provided by American disco group Chic.

As a novel recognized by many white Americans, The Speaker's Happiness quickly inspired Charm (1980), which is a new Dancing Blondie and other world records. 1982 Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock became the first reprimanded record using a synthesizer and an electronic drum player. With this record, rappers began to create their own dependent tracks instead of simply providing works to others in a new context. A year later, Bambaataa introduced that the sampling ability of the simulator synthesizer is "finding the perfect tap" (1983).

Sampling attributes that cause sound entry problems. Some artists claim that by sampling the recordings of famous black artists, such as funk musician James? Brown, they are challenging American white companies and the recording industry to express their own black culture. The more difficult fact is that rap artists and other musicians challenge Brown to use themselves, control and get compensation for their intellectual creation. Before the early 1990s, this system appeared, and most artists demanded permission and negotiated some form of compensation, such as the use of samples. Some * * * sample performers in the same place, such as funk musician George? Clinton released a compact disc (CD), which contains many sound clips to facilitate sampling. One of the functions of sampling is that the newly discovered feelings in the history of music are among black youth. Early artists such as Brown and Clinton celebrated the re-release and re-popularity of cultural heroes and their old records. However, before the end of 1990s, allowing sampling became very expensive, and many conversationalists began to create tracks and sounds from scratch.

Several rap styles in America

West coast rap (west coast rap)

In the world of hip-hop music, this is not just a geographical division. The difference between east and west coast rap lies in the style and content. Although influenced by hip-hop predecessors such as Flash Master and Afrika Bambatta, West Coast rap is farther away from the old-fashioned rap journey than East Coast rap. They use more fashionable and unique rhythms and support smooth and melodious tunes. West Coast rappers also took the lead in bringing "gangster" culture to the forefront of hip-hop culture. Although the boundaries between east and west coast rap are gradually weakening in the process of the evolution of rap music, there are still obvious west coast systems, including the most typical rap bands N.W.A, Snoop Dogg and Vallejo, as well as California's E-40.

Southern rap (southern rap)

Among all kinds of Hip-Hop, southern rap /Hip-Hop includes the most extensive artists and styles. In terms of lyrics, the common feature of southern rappers is a strong local accent. However, in music, the differences between bands in different regions are different. The innovative instrumental music of Noize Productions organized in Atlanta is very different from the rough synthetic jumping style of Cash Money and Limit in New Orleans. And underground Kingz (from Houston, Texas) and eight balls &; MJG (from Memphis, Tennessee) These bands decorate their generous and affectionate dynamics with guitars, further expanding the scope of this style.

hip hop

Pop rap /Hip-Hop is a kind of rap suitable for radio broadcasting. Its main features are attractive melody and rhythm, neat production and popular gimmicks. This style is also called "clean rap". Artists, including will smith, MC Hammer and Young M.C, are often ridiculed by die-hard rappers, but because they pay attention to the young people's market, they are constantly setting off a strong upsurge.

Old school rap (old school)

Old-school rap refers to the initial stage of rap. 1979-84 period, when the beat was more direct, focusing on entertainment, rather than explaining society or telling stories of depravity. The heyday of old-school rap began with Sugarhill Gang's hit single "The Joy of the Raptor", and later it was other singles that became popular, not an artist. Roxanne Roxanne by U.T.F.O, Nightout of Freaks by Whodini and Basketball by Kurtis Blow were great successes in this period, but what was remembered by the popular mainstream was mainly the hit single, not their extensive other works. Several modern bands, such as Arsonist and Jurassic 5, have obvious old-school rap tones, introducing the essence of B-boy to a new generation of listeners, such as the importance of high-energy synthetic sound system and DJ.

Midwest rap

Although their production technology also represents their music, rappers in the Midwest of the United States mainly make themselves unique through sound innovation. Hosts Twista and Bone Thugs found a suitable position for Midwest rap through the experiment of vocal melody, in which host Twista accelerated the melody. The healthy competition between Chicago's Do or Die and Cleveland's bone gumps N-Harmony has further consolidated the status of rap music in the Midwest. The two sides competed for publicity and attracted many listeners.

Latin rap (Latin rap)

From the beginning of rap, there has been rap from Latin circle. But it didn't break into the mainstream of fashion until very late. The double success of Meloman Ace's "Mentirosa" and Kid Frost's "La Raza" indicates the success of Latin rap-the image of multi-language (especially Spanish) rap, Latin rhythm and Latin city life-in the pop music world. Mellow Man Ace's brother Sengou is one of the founding members of the most famous Latin rap action Cypress Hill.

Hardcore Rap

While rap has described the theme of urban struggle in a more direct way, a more inflammatory expression called "hard core" appeared in the late 1980s. Hip-Hop, a strong musical form in rap, is more destructive and inflammatory. The background is always accompanied by weakened drums, and most of the lyrics reflect the way of thinking that runs counter to society or is different from ordinary people. Artists such as ICE-T, Public Enmy, Eminem, Getoboys and Mobb Deep create music with spicy lyrics and rough production techniques.

Gunst rap music

Gangster rap tells the story of street life, and the theme is often violent assassination or women's troubles. It has become a musical style and a violent image at the same time. N.W.A created the most controversial rap in this kind of hip-hop for the first time in 1989' s famous album "Straight Outta Compton", in which the fucking police and crooked police officers accused the law enforcers of atrocities. Protests and threats from politicians and religious rights holders suddenly flooded into the city, and overwhelming negative reports forced media giants to give up many promising musicians and record companies to avoid censorship. Nevertheless, the notorious music videos recorded by B.I.G and his colleagues, which are familiar to the media, brought gangster culture close to the mainstream in the late 1990s.

Foreign rap

The contribution of all non-English speaking countries to hip-hop is always called foreign rap /Hip-hop, which is based on the basic creed of rap and has joined many cultures. French rap band MC Solaar and Japanese artist DJ Kensei blended other genres, including dance music and psychedelic jazz, and injected the flavor of other cultures into the daily hip-hop blood.

east coast rap

Generally speaking, East Coast rap/hip hop retains more old-fashioned styles than its West Coast rap. Public Enmy, Boogie Down Productions, Run-D.M.C and other East Coast elite artists directly draw lessons from the simplicity and directness of their predecessors, which is in sharp contrast with the gorgeous style of the West Coast. This produces a more angular rhythm and a rigorous and powerful rhythm. With the integration of the east and west coasts, rap has become an alloy of cross-strait cultures, and the clear and lively voice on the east coast continues to flourish, and a number of young and promising innovative artists such as Nas, Mobb Deep and Juru the Damaj a have emerged.

Cross rap

Transitional rap refers to hip-hop music that moves from the audience in core cities to the mainstream pop charts. It is often characterized by repeated popular gimmicks, mainstream MTV lyrics and sophisticated production techniques. Most (but not all) transitional rap is popular rap, focusing on the structure and theme of popular songs. There are several artists who can stick to their street style while gaining popularity, such as Biggie, Tupac, method man and Jay-Z. They all became music superstars without giving up their consistent and intense lyrics, and they are popular without losing their street characteristics.

Comedy rap

Comedy rap is the light side of Hip-Hop, which was founded by Biz Markie in the 1980s. Away from the violent images of hardcore and gangster rap, comedy rappers add a unique sense of humor and humor to the bass and percussion of modern city music. Although gang rap quickly became a popular form of hip hop, DJ J azzy Jeff and Fresh Prince's Parents Just Don't Understand and Bobby Jimmy &; The songs of small animals such as "Someone Farts" are still on the list from time to time.

Christian rap (Christian rap)

Christian rap is to sing praise lyrics with hip-hop rhythm. At first, the theme of urban life and violence in hip-hop music seems to have nothing to do with the peace and relaxation of modern Christian music. But DC Talk, T-Bone, and the Transformation Crusaders found that the mixture of the two still had an audience. MC Hammer was the first rapper to succeed with a clear theme of Christ; In the early 1990s, his hit single "Prayer" introduced Christian rap, which was still in its infancy, to a wide audience.

Alternative rap (alternative rap)

Most rappers often stick to some existing styles, while alternative rap/hip hop artists boldly develop in new directions. Hindered by development, the Jungle Brothers and a tribe named Quest seek inspiration from funk, jazz, reggae, soul music, folk songs, pop music and anything that can inspire them. Produced by Prince Paul, De La Sol's debut novel Three Feet High and Rising (1989) changed the rules of art and greatly expanded the vision of the music industry. On the basis of ordinary descriptions of city life, injustice and lies, most alternative rap songs are unconventional in lyrics and explore the mainstream of society from a philosophical perspective. ...

China rap.

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The definition of "rap" in English-Chinese dictionaries (source: Baidu Dictionary);

rap 1

Noun (short for noun) [C]

1. Knock (sound); Knock (sound); Flap (sound)

2. strange, strange; complain

3. blame guilt; Fines; prison term

transitive verb

1. Knock on the door; Knock on the door; meet by chance

Step 2 say pointedly

3. Causes of knocking

4. Severe criticism, sharp criticism

5. Investigate the criminal responsibility of ...; condemn

intransitive verb

Knock on the door; pat

rap2

Take +0.

Step 2 be fascinated, fascinated

rap3

1useless thing

2.Mouth (used in negative sentences) is a little, rarely [S]

rap4

slang

1. Talk and chat; Discussion [(+to)]

Understand [(+to)]

slang

Talk, chat