Hip Hop Music is More Than a Couple of Words

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Hip Hop music is more than just a couple of words that rhyme together; it's a culture, its spiritual movement that has helped people in various ways. Where it originated from is particularly among the African-American youth in Bronx, New York. DJ's in Bronx would isolate percussive breaks in popular songs and those genres of music were typically funk, disco, and soul records. Since those genres were relatively short, DJ's would use turn tables to extend and mix the beats which eventually formed a new genre of music known as hip hop. The father of hip pop was known as DJ Kool Herc, but other people might say Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five were the ones to do it because of their success of hip pop music. That group of artist was the first to really express hip hop and rap music to the world and they were the ones to have hip hop known around the globe. As hip hop revolutionized and began to expand, rap music came along into play and that was how rap music and rap artist began to introduce to the world. Those low-income areas of living were the heart and soul of the city, and helped bring the people motivation and hope. As many would say “Hip hop music in its infancy has been described as an outlet and a "voice" for the disenfranchised youth of low-economic areas, as the culture reflected the social, economic and political realities of their lives” "Hip Hop Music." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 5 May 2014. Web. 06 May 2014.
Rap music and rapping is also known as emceeing, is a vocal style of music in which the artist speaks lyrically in rhymes to an instrumental or a synthesized beat. The roots of rapping also come from the African-American culture which was formed from jazz poetry. What started this type of poetry was ...

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...s day the most popular styles of music are the multi-genre songs. This is where the creativity comes to play. As the generation of rap artist experiment and come up with new styles of music that attracts their audience, it gives them something “new” to listen to. Scientist actually did a study of the mind of a rap artist by testing their brain activity while performing freestyles. One of the scientists named Braun concluded by stating that “We think what we see is a relaxation of ‘executive functions’ to allow more natural de-focused attention and uncensored processes to occur that might be the hallmark of creativity” Briggs, Amy. "Brains Got Game: The Amazing Minds of Freestyle Rappers." News Watch. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 May 2014. What this proves is that the mind of a rapper is very creative, and creativity plays a significant role in the process of making rap music.

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