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Hip hop production. Hip hop producer and rapper RZA in a music studio with two collaborators. Pictured in the foreground is a synthesizer keyboard and a number of vinyl records; both of these items are key tools that producers and DJs use to create hip hop beats. Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio.
Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.
The term sampling was coined in the late 1970s by the creators of the Fairlight CMI, a synthesizer with the ability to record and playback short sounds. As technology improved, cheaper standalone samplers with more memory emerged, such as the E-mu Emulator, Akai S950 and Akai MPC . Sampling is a foundation of hip hop music, which emerged when ...
Comedy hip hop or comedy rap is a subgenre of hip hop music designed to be amusing or comedic, [1] compared to artists who incorporate humor into their more serious, purist hip hop styles. Satirical hip hop is a variant of comedy hip hop done in a sarcastic, parodic , or deadpan way.
The term golden age hip hop frames the late 1980s in mainstream hip hop, [20] said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence, [21] and associated with Public Enemy, KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, [22] [23] De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers [24 ...
Retrieved 13 July 2015. Rappers as disparate as Common, Mos Def and Talib Kweli (collectively Black Star), Company Flow, Blackalicious, the Roots, Jurassic 5, the Coup, and (...) the Black Eyed Peas, seemingly merged into a clump of what came to be termed "alternative rap". ^ a b Danton, Eric R. (8 February 2004).
Members Only was an American hip hop collective from Broward County, Florida, formed in 2014. It was originally only a duo consisting of XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God after the two met in a juvenile detention center. [2] It closely associated with another collective named Very Rare, and members of both collectives also refer to ...
A freestyle battle is a contest in which two or more rappers or MCs compete or "battle" each other using improvised lyrics. It is a prominent part of contemporary Hip Hop culture and originated in the African-American community. [ 21] In a freestyle battle, each competitor's goal is to "diss" their opponent through clever lyrics and wordplay ...