Hip hop music is a genre of music known as rap music, developed by inner city African American in the United States.
In the 1970s in Bronx New York, Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans played a central role in the development of hip hop culture.
It was in 1979 that hip hop music got to be recorded for play on both radio and Television. The very first mainstream wave of the genre was old school pop, it was marked for its disco influence and party oriented lyrics.
In the 1980s, the hip hop music became diversified as it developed more complex styles and spread around the world.
The second music wave was called new school hip hop, it led into the golden age hip-pop marked by its electro sound. The impoverished and violent lifestyle of African American gained popularity by the mid 1980s to mid 1990s with hip hop songs own album era and the gangster rap subgenre.
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In late 1990s to mid 2000s, the popularity of hip hop music kept gaining grounds with hip hop influencers dabbling into other popular genre of music like neo soul, RnB e.t.c. that era was simply called bling era.
Following the commercial decline of gangster rap in the early 2010s, mainstream hip hop music took up a more sensitive, melodic direction. In the mid late 2010s and early 2020s, the mumble rap and trap subgenre become the most popular form of hip hop songs.
In 2017, pop music became the most popular genre of music in the united states after usurping it from Rock.
Why hip hop music is considered as one of the best genre in Music
In terms of cultural impact from the history of hip hop music, you will notice that, it is one of the most relevant form of music genre currently not only in the United states but across the world as well.
Hip hops can be deeply contemplative, catchy or better still a mixture of both. Hip hops speak to young people as well as catching the attention of the older folks. It is the coming together of social justice, great production amongst many other things that made it unprecedented in the history of music genre.
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Some of the best hip hop artist include Drake, Eminem, Jay Z, Kanye West, Missy Elliot, Wu-Tang Clan e.t.c.
We have about four pillers of hip pops according to hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaata and they are:
Streetart:
Streetart is a kind of visual painting made from using spray paints and a lively, hectic styl. Not all visual paintings (gratiffi) is associated with hip hop, but hip hop songs have a distinct graffiti that is instantly recognizable.
Rapping:
Rapping uses rythms and lyrics but it does not have a melody. It is more like reciting poetry over a backbeat or more like singing without melody. Rapping is a distinctive feature of most hip hop music but not all.
Turntablism:
It makes use of records from other artist to create music mixes, combine and manipulate sounds to create something new.
It is simply a way of making music with turntables, but these days Djs makes use of digital tools t do that.
Breakdancing;
This is a physically demanding an aerobatic style of dance that only a few people have mastered. Breakdancing have been an integral part of hip hop culture from inception, but due to its difficulty in learning it has been unable to gain much popularity just like the other aspects of hip hops.
The central feature of hip hop music is the interplay between the Rapper and the beats. The beats can also be a sample of older recordings or made from an instrument. Different beats and melodies are weaved together to get the right sounds. They just don’t get to play traditional form of instrument.
The beat ranges from harsh and dark to sparse and relax but the only uniformity is that they have minimal amount of music complexity so as not to distract from the rapper.
Conclusion
The secret to a good Rap in music industry is just more than music, you have got to understand rythms and poems and do bear in mind that hip hop fans tend to hang on to every word the Rapper utters
