What is rap metal?
Black metal? Death metal? I’m lost. A: As you can guess by the title, rap metal is the mixture of rap-style vocals over generally slower and more groove-orientated heavy music. It’s the most accepted form of hard rock/heavy metal in the mainstream- and alternative-music markets. It came about around 1986-87 with the group the Beastie Boys. The metal band Anthrax also put out a single in 1987 called “I’m the Man” that was an incredibly bad — but really funny — mixture of rap and metal. Anthrax would later do a collaboration in 1991 with the rap act Public Enemy to perform the song Bring the Noise. That song became a hit in both the rap and metal worlds, a favorite on MTV and of college kids who weren’t really into either genre. It became a basis for the rap metal that is accepted in the mainstream now. Black metal is a vile (in my opinion) form of heavy music. Very fast drumming, high-pitched guitar, lots of high-pitched screaming. Mostly a European sensation, based in Norway, it’s ca
