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| To the untrained ear, all rap and hip-hop may
sound the same, but there's a number of different levels in even the simplest rap song. At
its core, hip-hop is a post-modern musical genre that deconstructs familiar sounds and
songs, rebuilding them as entirely new, unpredictable songs. Early rap records, commonly
called "old school," were made by DJs scratching records and playing drum loops,
with MCs rapping over the resulting rhythms. As the genre progressed, hard-rock guitars
and hard-hitting beats were introduced by Run-D.M.C., the first hardcore rap group, and
the scratching techniques were replaced by sampling. With their dense collages of samples,
beats and white noise, Public Enemy took sampling to the extreme, and they helped
introduce a social and political conscience to hip-hop. That faded in the '90s, as gangsta
rap -- originally introduced by NWA, who used Public Enemy's sound as a template -- became
the dominant form. By the '90s, gangsta rap, which originally was in direct opposition to
such pop-oriented rappers as MC Hammer, had become smoothed over and stylish, and
consequently was more popular than ever, as evidenced by the success of pop-gangsta Puff
Daddy.Main Types of RAP:
Hip-Hop/Urban |
music is LIFE!
music soothes even the savage beast
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