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Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [ 1 ]emceeing[ 2 ] or MCing[ 2 ][ 3 ]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular ". [ 4 ] It is usually performed over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. [ 4 ]
Mumble rap. Mumble rap (also known as SoundCloud rap) is a loosely defined [ 3] microgenre [ 5] of hip hop music that largely spread via the online audio distribution platform SoundCloud in the 2010s. [ 6] The term implies mumbling, or unclear vocal delivery, by artists, and it has been used to describe rappers who do not share the rap genre's ...
Wu-Tang Clan. Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop musical collective formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992. [ 4] Its members include RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and, until his death in 2004, Ol' Dirty Bastard.
Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick :
Battle rap. Battle rap (also known as rap battling) [ 1] is a type of rapping performed between two or more performers that incorporates boasts, insults, wordplay and disses originating in the African-American community. [ 1][ 2] Battle rap is often performed, or freestyled, spontaneously in live battles known as Rap battles, where participants ...
Genge - from Kenya. Hip hop galsen - from Senegal. Hipco - from Liberia. Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana. Igbo rap - from Southeast Nigeria. Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion. Motswako - from Botswana and South Africa. Zenji flava - from Tanzania. European.
"The purpose is not to make the word unrecognizable but to make it a mention rather than a use." The term "disemvoweling"—attested from 1990 —was occasionally used for the splat-out of vowels. Teresa Nielsen Hayden used the vowel-deletion technique in 2002 for internet forum moderation on her blog Making Light.
Perfect and imperfect rhymes. Perfect rhyme — also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [ 1] or true rhyme — is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [ 2][ 3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words "kit" and "bit" form a ...