Rap final
- 3. What is Rap? Rapping is spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics. The components of rapping include "content", "flow" (rhythm and rhyme), and "delivery“. Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat.
- 4. Rapping is often associated with and a primary ingredient of hip hop music, BUT the origins of the phenomenon can be said to predate hip hop culture by centuries. Since the early 21st century, it has been possible to hear rap in every major language of the world.
- 5. Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without accompaniment. Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area between speech, prose, poetry, and singing. The word (meaning originally "to hit“) as used to describe quick speech or repartee predates the musical form.
- 6. Roots One of the main influences on Hip Hop artists was James Brown. James Brown is credited for inventing funk music in the middle '60s. The characteristic funk drum beat is the most common rhythm used for rap music.
- 8. Related to the African American community were items like schoolyard chants and taunts, clapping games, jump-rope rhymes, some with unwritten folk histories going back hundreds of years across many nationalities.
- 9. Rapping "Flow" is defined as "the rhythms and rhymes” of a hip-hop song's lyrics and how they interact. Staying on the beat is central to rap's flow.
- 10. Styles "The Chant", which he says is used by Lil Jon and Project Pat "The Syncopated Bounce", used by Twista "Straight Forward", used by Jay-Z, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg Etc
- 12. Rhyme MCs use many different rhyming techniques, including complex rhyme schemes. It has been noted that rap's use of rhyme is some of the most advanced in all forms of poetry. Rhyme is often thought to be the most important factor in rap writing... rhyme is what gives rap lyrics their musicality.
- 13. Rhythm Many of the rhythmic techniques used in rapping come from percussive techniques and many rappers compare themselves to percussionists.
- 14. Delivery / Performance To successfully deliver a rap, a rapper must also develop vocal presence, enunciation, and breath control. The ability to rap quickly and clearly is sometimes regarded as an important sign of skill.
- 15. Subject matter Anything and everything. Materialism has also been a popular topic in hip-hop since at least the early 1990s, with rappers boasting about their own wealth and possessions, and name-dropping specific brands.
- 16. Literary technique Rappers use the literary techniques of double entendres, alliteration, and other forms of wordplay that are also found in classical poetry. Similes and metaphors are used extensively in rap lyrics. Rappers, like Jay-Z, are known for the metaphorical content of their raps.
- 17. Diction and dialect Many hip hop listeners believe that a rapper's lyrics are enhanced by a complex vocabulary.
- 18. Though the majority of rappers are male, there have been a number of female rap stars, including: Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M.I.A., Foxy Brown, and Lisa Lopes from TLC, Iggy Azalea. There are also some also hip hop artists like Signmark.
- 21. Deaf Rap artists