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RAP MUSIC

What is rap music?

Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical
form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech,
and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of
ways, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The
components of rap include "content" (what is being said), "flow"
(rhythm, rhyme), and "delivery" (cadence, tone). Rap differs from
spoken-word poetry in that it is usually performed off time to musical
accompaniment. Rap being a primary ingredient of hip hop music, it
is commonly associated with that genre in particular; however, the
origins of rap predate hip-hop culture by many years

History of rap music

World Cafe celebrates Black History Month with a special on the
birth of rap, in which rapper Kurtis Blow, DJ Grand Wizard
Theodore, and museum curator Jim Fricke help host David Dye
explore the birth of hip-hop. Kurtis Blow was the first rapper to sign
with a major label, the first to earn a certified gold single, and the
first to tour internationally. Grand Wizard Theodore was the DJ who
invented scratching, utilizing turntables as an instrument to be
played. Jim Fricke is the editor of Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience
Music Project Oral History of Hip Hop's First Decade, and was the
curator of the "Hip-Hop Nation" exhibit at Seattle's Experience Music
Project. Together, they tell the story of rap's early years in the
1970s.

Rap as a genre began at block parties in New York City in
the early 1970s, when DJs began isolating the percussion
breaks of funk, soul, and disco songs and extending them.
MCs tasked with introducing the DJs and keeping the crowd
energized would talk between songs, joking and generally
interacting with the audience. Over time, it became common
for the MCs (or rappers, as they soon became known) to
talk and rhyme over and in sync with the music. Initially
dismissed as a fad, rap music proved its commercial
viability in 1979 with the release of The Sugarhill Gang's
"Rapper's Delight," and then again in 1980 with Kurtis
Blow's "The Breaks," a Top 5 hit that eventually went gold.

As rapping as an art form and a technique continued to
develop, so too did the DJing. DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
is said to have accidentally invented the method of
"scratching," wherein the DJ pushes the record back and
forth as it's played to produce a scratching noise as it
brushes against the needle. The scratching technique
proved to be enormously influential, as it was quickly picked
up by legends like Grandmaster Flash. Theodore is also
responsible for pioneering the use of the needle drop,
where instead of silently cueing up the next record to be
played, the DJ drops the needle onto the exact beginning of
the song

The respective disciplines of rapping and DJing continued
to evolve, leading to the mid-'80s era known as the golden
age of hip-hop, in which artists like Run DMC and Rakim
pushed the boundaries of the art form and helped to make
rap into the ubiquitous mainstream entity that it is today.

Example of rap artist

NAME Elliot John Gleave
Born 20 June 1982 (age 38)
Hammersmith, London, England
Nationality
British
Occupation
Musician /singer /songwriter /rapper
record producer

First studio album

WHAT WE MADE (2007)

What We Made is the debut studio album released by British
recording artist Example. The album was initially due for release
in June 2007, as stated on the back of the We Didn't Invent the
Remix sleeve, however the album was delayed and was finally
released on 17 September 2007.

Second studio album

Won’t Go Quietly

Won't Go Quietly is the second studio album from British recording artist
Example. It was released as a digital download on 20 June 2010, with the
physical release the following day. Noted producers that helped with the album
include Calvin Harris, Sub Focus and Chase & Status. As of December 2012,
the album has sold 265,000 copies in the UK