Rap/Hip hop music is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic, and rhyming speech that is chanted.
Rap/Hip-Hop music as we know it today, actually began thousands of years ago in
Africa with the “griots”. Griots were village story tellers who played a simple handmade instrument while they told stories of family, village, and hunting events. The griot still is a major form of communication in parts of Africa. This talking while music is playing is rap music in its most very beginning forms. Although rap music has been around for centuries, it made a real comeback in 1970’s in New York. Several sources believes Bronx, New York, was the first …show more content…
This music genre continued to be adapted into other genres of popular music. Hip-hop soon became a best-selling music genre in the mid-1990s and the top selling music genre by 1999. The popularity of hip hop/Rap music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop. The United States also saw the success of styles such as crunk, a music that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Perhaps the most striking difference between 1990s hip-hop and more modern tracks is the lyrics. Hip-hop/Rap in the previous decade had a relatively narrow focus. Songs were less about an artist’s success and more about his or her rise to it; even the most financially successful rappers wrote about violence, crime, and living in poverty. 90s rappers create a persona, portraying themselves as thugs and gangsters because that was the character they had to be to succeed. ‘90s hip-hop artists forced listeners to consider the underlying reasons behind these things, that it was.. survival for …show more content…
Social media and the Internet had a huge impact on Rap/Hip-hop, prior to the rise of social media, an artist’s means of establishing a fan base was to capture the attention of a record label. Now they find fans through numerous websites such as facebook, twitter, soundcloud, etc. Although the rise of the Internet age affected one other part of the hip-hop/Rap genre because their was not a single theme of the “hood” or being a “gangster”. With social media providing increased awareness for artists, but also sharing what c a mainstream rapper is, and the relationship between artists and radio stations, has changed completely. This caused the effects of the more universal a song, the larger an audience it will reach and now that hip-hop has become more accepted by the people, the potential for rap artists to make it big is even greater. Even artists who avoid the mainstream by remaining independent of any major record label can still find financial
Rap/Hip-Hop music as we know it today, actually began thousands of years ago in
Africa with the “griots”. Griots were village story tellers who played a simple handmade instrument while they told stories of family, village, and hunting events. The griot still is a major form of communication in parts of Africa. This talking while music is playing is rap music in its most very beginning forms. Although rap music has been around for centuries, it made a real comeback in 1970’s in New York. Several sources believes Bronx, New York, was the first …show more content…
This music genre continued to be adapted into other genres of popular music. Hip-hop soon became a best-selling music genre in the mid-1990s and the top selling music genre by 1999. The popularity of hip hop/Rap music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop. The United States also saw the success of styles such as crunk, a music that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Perhaps the most striking difference between 1990s hip-hop and more modern tracks is the lyrics. Hip-hop/Rap in the previous decade had a relatively narrow focus. Songs were less about an artist’s success and more about his or her rise to it; even the most financially successful rappers wrote about violence, crime, and living in poverty. 90s rappers create a persona, portraying themselves as thugs and gangsters because that was the character they had to be to succeed. ‘90s hip-hop artists forced listeners to consider the underlying reasons behind these things, that it was.. survival for …show more content…
Social media and the Internet had a huge impact on Rap/Hip-hop, prior to the rise of social media, an artist’s means of establishing a fan base was to capture the attention of a record label. Now they find fans through numerous websites such as facebook, twitter, soundcloud, etc. Although the rise of the Internet age affected one other part of the hip-hop/Rap genre because their was not a single theme of the “hood” or being a “gangster”. With social media providing increased awareness for artists, but also sharing what c a mainstream rapper is, and the relationship between artists and radio stations, has changed completely. This caused the effects of the more universal a song, the larger an audience it will reach and now that hip-hop has become more accepted by the people, the potential for rap artists to make it big is even greater. Even artists who avoid the mainstream by remaining independent of any major record label can still find financial