developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastfulrhyming pattern glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.” In other words, rap music is a kind of Hip-Pop music, it likes free talk but with a strong rhythm.
states that “Rap as a genre that began at block parties in New York City in the early 1970s, when DJs began isolating the percussion breaks of funk,…
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