Rap music is a style of poetic rhyming set to a heavy percussive beat often including a chorus sung by another performer in the style of traditional pop or rhythm and blues. Rap music is primarily an American medium but in recent years has exploded onto the world stage and rappers can now be found on almost every nation.
Most music fans associate rap music with African American youth from the ghettos, projects, and lower strata of American society, and since most performers come from one of those backgrounds the idea has gained acceptance.The 1970s in New York was when Rap found it’s way into Hip hop music, initially as a small part of an overall track, and later as the major part of a track with a small Hip Hop component. The first track to enter the billboard charts with a rap sound was the group Last Poets with their debut track ‘Wake Up, Niggers’, a political commentary that accompanied the film “Right On”.
Most music fans associate rap music with African American youth from the ghettos, projects, and lower strata of American society, and since most performers come from one of those backgrounds the idea has gained acceptance.The 1970s in New York was when Rap found it’s way into Hip hop music, initially as a small part of an overall track, and later as the major part of a track with a small Hip Hop component. The first track to enter the billboard charts with a rap sound was the group Last Poets with their debut track ‘Wake Up, Niggers’, a political commentary that accompanied the film “Right On”.
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