What is rap music?
Rap music is a popular genre of music that features rhyming lyrics spoken over music, usually with mashed-up beats from a turntable and often borrowed clips, or “sampling,” from famous songs. After an underground beginning, rap is now one of the most popular and best-selling genres of music.HistoryRap has its roots in African-American protest movements of the 1960s, but the first rappers didn’t really become a force until the late 1970s, when artists such as Grandmaster Flash began the traditional format of DJs spinning discs in the back while an MC rapped over the beats in the front of the stage.SignificanceRap began exploding in the 1980s. While groups such as Run-DMC revolutionized the genre by incorporating rock and roll elements, groups such as Public Enemy and NWA incorporated messages full of violence and politics into the genre.TypesAs rap became more popular, it splintered into sub-genres. One of the most popular types of rap in the 1990s was gangsta rap. Unfortunately, feuds
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