I really like the flow of rap music! Are you a fan?
Yeah! I must admit I'm an old lady and am not too familiar with newer rap artists except for Kendrick Lamar. What can you tell me about rap and its history?
The earliest precursor to rap was thought to be a West African griot tradition. Rappers were known as "oral historians" or "praise-singers"!
That makes sense! I bet it sounded really cool
I'll bet it did! A lot of people seem to think that rap and hip-hop are the same, but they're not. Rap is actually much older than hip-hop music.
What is the difference?
essential to understand hip hop musically. The main elements of hip hop consist of four main pillars. Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture, coining the terms: "rapping" (also called an MC), a rhythmic vocal rhyming style (orality); DJing (and turntablism), which is making music with record players and DJ mixers (aural/sound and music creation); b-boying/b-girling/breakdancing (movement/dance); and
"This is my fucking moment to say if I wanted to rap all the time, really rap, I would, but I also love to make music. I'll do this for you right now. But it's for me, too. It's my story…I'm trying to get back to that kid in the basement. To say what he has to say. And I'm trying to make it last."
On February 10, 2013, the same night Drake won a Grammy for Best Rap