Hip hop culture has a bad reputation in some quarters, mostly because of its association with rap. The two have been bundled together with a range of negative connotations: bad language, misogyny, glorifying crime, violence and drug use.

But while many people struggle to look past the profanity, materialism, and high-risk messages often celebrated within mainstream rap music, hip hop culture at its core, is built on values of social justice, peace, respect, self-worth, community, and having fun.

The reason so many rap songs tend to be entrenched in vulgarity is probably due to the culture that surrounds the artists that write them. Many of the most prevalent rappers today are from low-income and high crime areas in which vulgarity is commonplace even amongst kids.

Mumble rap is popular because it aligns with the trend towards passive listening. People used to sit down with friends and actually just listen to a vinyl record. No texting, no TV, just listening to the music.

DJ Kool Herc

1. Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most skillful and successful hip hop artists of his generation, with various media outlets branding him the “new king of hip hop”.

Kanye West Further, he makes his case as a commercial giant with eight №1 albums and 16.3 million albums sold, which cement him as the №1 rapper of his era in both categories. More than anything, though, when it comes to full bodies of work, Kanye is unrivaled amongst his peers.

Rappers have to train to be good at rapping. So in terms of actually doing, singing is harder. But in terms of learning and having the skill, rapping is harder, since great singers are born great singers.

It is a talent, just like yodelling or screamo. It is a talent, just like yodelling or screamo. Sadly, the only way to appreciate rap, is to have a relatively good understanding of music theory and most people who undermine rap, do so because they don’t have this basic understanding of music.

Rapping is talking rhythmically, often with very complex rhythms. Singing is talking rhythmically and tonally singing specific notes and rhythms. Most singers will be able to rap with only a little bit of practice needed, many rappers can sing, but fewer rappers can sing than singers can rap.

Actual rapping is normally not in any key, and some rap and hip hop has no singing in it. For some rap and hip-hop, the versus are not sung on any specific pitch but the chorus is. Two things that make hip hop and rap vocals unique are: The prevalence of obvious “auto-tune” or pitch correction on sung parts.

Any way you slice it, Rap and Hip Hop is predominately performed by black males. As of Monday, September 3, 49 of the top 50 songs on Billboard magazine’s R&B/Hip Hop chart are performed and or written by people that would generally be considered as black or African-American.

Sharon Green

It’s not actually a form of music. It’s a form of rhythmic speaking. Thus, beyond the objectivity of me just not enjoying rap all that much, what I’ve said before is that rap is not music.

Bernard Edwards

In the late 1970s, Afrika Bambaataa began hosting parties as a way to get teenagers off the streets and end gang violence. He established the Universal Zulu Nation, a group of dancers, artists, and fellow DJs.

Today, “Rapper’s Delight” is considered a watershed in popular culture, the song that introduced rap into the wider pop-music landscape. It demonstrated – for better or for worse – that there was money to be made in hip-hop records. They also, along the way, introduced the pop-music chorus.

The track was recorded in a single take. There are five mixes of the song. “Rapper’s Delight” is number 251 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 2 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs.

“Rapper’s Delight” didn’t just sample the beat; the string stabs were also lifted, so the entire “Delight” track was made up of pieces from the Chic song. “Good Times” was written by Chic’s guitarist/producer Nile Rodgers and bass player Bernard Edwards.

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