Local hip hop scenes developed in many countries and produced successful artists like the UK's Dizzee Rascal and Canada's Drake. Hip hop has had a strong influence on 21st-century pop music, with many pop songs including elements of hip hop. Pop singers and rappers often collaborate to produce tracks with catchy pop choruses and rapped verses like the single See You Again , a collaboration between pop singer Charlie Puth and rapper Wiz Khalifa that topped the charts in 96 countries in In the s, most major artists were from New York or Los Angeles, but artists from the South became popular after They included the duo Outkast who combined Southern-soul grooves and riffs with clever, entertaining raps.
Other popular artists from the South include Usher, T. More recently, Southern artists like Future and Young Thug have been creating exciting new styles of alternative hip hop. Midwestern artists also became popular at this time. Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, was surrounded by hip hop culture in the poor Detroit neighbourhood in which he grew up.
As a teenager he won local rapping competitions, one of the first white rappers to do so. His natural flow and the honesty and humour of his raps won over the crowds, but because he wasn't a gangsta rapper he couldn't get a record contract. After struggling for many years, he finally got a record deal.
Nearly all of his albums have topped the charts worldwide and he's now one of the best-selling artists of all-time. Another major artist from the Midwest is Chicago's Kanye West. In he released The College Dropout , the first of a series of chart-topping alternative hip hop albums that helped change the direction of hip hop music. Kanye and Eminem proved that rappers didn't have to make gangsta rap records to succeed, and alternative hip hop soon replaced gangsta rap as the genre's most popular style.
While most hip hop artists are either producers or rappers, Kanye is regarded as a master of both. He's often called the most influential hip hop artist of the 21st century because of his role in changing hip hop's direction and because of the number of styles he's helped to create like the electronic rap of Black Skinhead and the gospel-influenced hip hop of Jesus Walks.
Since , exciting new styles of alternative hip hop and underground rap have been created by young artists who've begun their careers by releasing free mixtapes and using social media to build a following and attract music industry offers. With the overwhelming popularity of rap, it was inevitable it would spread geographically. The late s saw the emergence of what are known as some of the most famous West Coast rappers, Too Short, N.
These rappers came from economically depressed areas in Los Angeles and Oakland and their lyrics often were a reflection of their personal experiences. More controversial content and rhymes, including pimping, liquor, and other aspects of urban life that was not typically showcased on hit singles were features of their music.
One of N. This is also the time you see the foundation for the division between West Coast and East Coast rap begin to form. Oftentimes, people still discuss personal rap preferences from this era and beyond in terms of East Coast versus West Coast as a result in the evolution in stylistic and content decisions that came from the geographic divide in the two hotbeds for hip-hop.
Aside from stylistic differences, there were also personal differences that caused the national rift, most iconically between Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B. While the s witnessed the battle of the coasts, it also saw the explosion of women MCs into the game. While there was plenty of content antagonizing women, a few stepped forward to shift the tone of rap music for good, paving way for female rap stars as we know it today.
From the s on, well, the rest is history, as they say. Streaming and new technological advances allow for more nuances within the genre, helping out with sampling, beat development, and distribution methods.
Four Over Four. Home Culture Who started rap? A brief summary on the history of rap and Share on Facebook. Listen to these genres to improve productivity. I believe a community is made up of each and every single household. Broken households tend to manufacturer broken people. People who are broken are looking for something to fill that void. Also these rappers who are signed to record companies are employees for the company they work for. The mainstream is ran by major corporations who have heavy influence on what is played on the radio and television.
Youtube has become the 1 source where people go and listen to music. And some YouTube channels ran by individuals are starting to out perform major syndicated programming.
There is tons of positive rap music being released all the time, you are just not going to see much of it on mainstream platforms. Take Hopsin — Fly for example. Tho he does cuss in his lyrics the message he is bringing is profound. Oh and yes feel free to reference to my article in your presentation and thanks for reading and taking the time to comment.
I hope this finds you well and am wishing you the best in all that you do! Much love and respect! Thanks a ton brother!
Hey Eli, thanks for reaching out bro. I checked out your track as well and enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing it with me. I have a lot of thoughts and feedback on it that will take a good bit of time on my part to break down and explain.
I hope this finds you well and hope you enjoy my music recommendations. Take care and talk to you soon! Cole, thank you for the great information. I am an older white guy, 63, and not generally a rap fan though I love many different genres of music and am a guitarist.
They were active in the late 60s to the early 70s, I believe in New York city. God bless you in your endeavors, Jonathan. I actually had never heard of The Lost Poets before and just finished checking them out. Thanks for sharing them with me. Do you have anything uploaded to the internet I could check out? God Bless you as well! Cole, thank you I appreciate the information it is really going to help towards a project and assignment in class.
My pleasure Jose! Thanks for reading and commenting. Hey cole. Thank you so much for this website. I am in 5th grade but have been listening to rap music since I was a toddler.
I was inspired my brother and really recommend his music. Go to SoundCloud and search kingmoofasa and click on the first one. Please do listen, and again thanks an bunch! Hey Gretchen, my pleasure bro! Wow 5th grade? I started rapping when I was in 5th grade! Thanks for sharing your brothers music with me.
I really enjoyed what I heard on soundcloud. Really good tunes! Tell him I said great job and to keep up the good work! Hey Cole i was wondering if u could give me some tips on how to become a better rapper. So if u get this just shoot me a reply and lets have a little chat alright? Hey Ethan, thanks for reaching out. I rap as well and I love old school rap. Wishing you the best on your next studio session!
Thanks a lot! My pleasure Elizabeth! First of all, let me congratulate you because of such good article. It is so useful to know more about rap true origins! I have some questions and I think you could answer them as they need to be ansewered because of this article, I think you can help me a lot with my research :.
I mean, spontaneous answers? I mean, we can say that improvised rap was the very first origin of rap? I think improvising is where all things start. Much love and blessings to you as well! This really doesnt got nothing to do with the page that much i just wanna ask you something.
What would you do if you where 16 in very talented in your ryhmes but dont have enough money for a personal studio in your in a stuck spot. Well when I was 16 I was in the same exact situation. I made the most out of what I had, worked my butt off and saved to build my studio 1 piece at a time. I wrote an article about how I first got started. You can check it out here. Hip hop now serves as a multi purpose safe zone to promote awareness, great music, and love.
I found it really hard to find a reliable site to refer to and this site is exactly what i was looking for! I got so much information from this site and i used it all in my speech!!!
My pleasure Sofia! I get a lot of students in schools using this article on their class projects which is awesome! Hi Cole! I was wondering if you had some sources which supplied this information. Not to criticize you or anything because I want to use this for my senior year paper. Great article btw! I got you covered, I just provided links in response to your previous comment. Hey Ayymar, I completely understand trust me! This article as also been featured on other websites as a reference and you are certainly not the first to ask for references.
Thanks T Slick! Feel free to come back and visit anytime! Thanks for taking the time to show love and support! Thanks for the information and history. I teach struggling readers in the 9th grade, and we have a unit on music. Your article offered great insight, and I was able to pass that along to my students. Thanks again! Great resource!!
I salute you for giving back to your community in the manner that you are! Thanks for reading and commenting and I appreciate all the love and support! Best wishes in all that you do! This really helped me because im doing a project on rap and I stumbled across this as I was looking up the origins of rap.
Thank- You so much. Also do you have any thoughts on English Grime music?? Would you be willing to send me some of your sources for this article? Any info is appreciated. Thanks for reaching out. Wishing you the best on your paper! Too funny!! I was researching some information and I ran across your website. My brother and I grew up in the S.
We clearly remember walking to White Castle and hearing music coming from somewhere when we decided to follow the sound. Echo Park was a frequent place for these gatherings and I often wondered how we were able to seal off a city block or an entire park without the authorities interfering. These outdoor parties stopped when almost 2 yrs.
We all knew it would happen. It was just a matter of time. I later became a foster child in the NY system and joined the Zulu Nation. He in the juvenile prison system and me in foster care.
As I progressed in the Zulu Nation, I learned many things and hung out with many of the early rappers. I reconciled with my brother and entering college, I maintained contact with my friends that were diligent in giving me, a young black scholar all the advice and tools needed to survive on the streets especially when I declared I had a large inheritance and was tired of the responsibilities of trying to raise my brother.
I said I wanted to kill myself like mom did but 1st raise my brother. Then when he was settled and near college graduation, I would have gone thru the money using cocaine so nobody else could spend it after I was gone. I just wanted to be with my mom. I met many heavy hitters and while in college only to be an example to my brother , I majored in TV Production and Film.
I worked across the street from the ABC studios. I was a hostess in a pub where media moguls and stars frequented. Because of my street sense, money and intelligence, I was asked to procure and partake.
I was there. I knew everyone. Anyway, we all watched stories of how Richard Pryor burned himself up doing freebase and ether became a controlled substance banned from common street use. Hello crack! Bronx neighborhood, but the explosion of unimaginable degradation that ensued shocked even the suppliers!
Women rented out their small children or outright sold them for the stuff, families lived in empty apartments as even picture frames were sold off for this new cheap, more available and addictive high. Bronx property taxes were raised up to 5 times what they were and the chaos and destruction prompted property owners to simply burn their buildings and collect the insurance rather than make costly repairs or raising rent from delinquent tenants who were stripping the copper pipes to support their habit.
The cops would line everyone up outside the building after shooting some and the perps would have their hands on the wall, legs spread, dogs, ambulances, paddy wagons and SWAT, all around and SO MANY police patting them down. The last perp on the end of the line was allowed to be uncuffed and still sell crack to whoever wanted it without repercussions for either him or the buyer.
I was honest, trusted and low drama with cash for those stars I knew downtown. If not for one word I got wrong, I would have been the only one in U. I learned my combat Spanish from the streets of NY while dealing with what I had to during the emergence of rap.
I missed how we girls would admire our black male physiques and giggle. Finally, my dad told me that since so many black men were trying hard to make a living but arrested and humiliated, taken to jail and having their shoelaces and belts taken and when released, had to walk home with no shoelaces or belts and hold up their pants during the most humiliating time of their lives, they simply began to sag and hold up their pants as a norm.
As a public display of their status. It is a form of rebellion and a visual by product of what is produced in our community. I got to see how this message has been perverted and misinterpreted even within our own communities as the elders once again fail to educate the youth. I spent 10 yrs. The rap community adopted this thing as a natural progression of the social climate and street fashion while the evolution of rap began to include the bragging rights to pimping and drug dealing that brings money into our decimated ghettos.
Most societies have profited from the misfortune of the weaker and since blacks are the weaker in the U. Not our oppressors. We should be proud and vocalize our message, as rap is an amazing impression on the world born of the least of us who only needed 2 turn tables and a microphone. Thanks so much Jennifer. It could literally be a full length article!
I appreciate you sharing your story with me and I thoroughly enjoyed being immersed into your world during the duration of your writing. Since your writing is already published on my website would it be okay if I published it as an article and gave you credit as the Author? It really is that good!! Thanks for your feedback on my article AmbyDread.
Do you have any sources I could check out that are stating that rapping was taking place at Jamaican house parties before Kool Herc? Do you have any articles that you could reference to that are stating that? Thanks for the positive feedback Alonso! I think many of them are elite in their own unique ways. Hey man, absolutely loved your article, some great, great info here!
Thanks for your recommendations for artists to check out. Thanks for your positive feedback and encouragement! Great article bro! Andy is a suberb rapper, check him out man. Thanks for your article, God Bless You! You prolly already know NF and Andy Mineo but whatever. Thanks for the heads up though. Much respect and God Bless you too! My pleasure Aari! Thanks for reading and commenting with your positive feedback! Thanks for your positive feedback Shazz! Much love to Canada from The States!
I was wondering if some of the rappers in queens got their startup from any of the gangsters back in the day?
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