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History of Rap Music
50 Cent raps in a new hit single, “Hate it or love it, the underdog’s on top”. Whether you hate or love rap, it doesn’t really matter because since 1970s, rap has had tremendous success. There is a large population which loves rap. Rap and hip-hop are two similar terms; people often interchange the two terms while referring to rap music. According to one of the most famous sayings, rap is something we do, and hip-hop is something we live. All rap is considered to be hip-hop but the vice versa isn’t true.
Difference between Rap and Hip-hop
Rap is a kind of music in the hip-hop culture. Hip-hop and rap differ in three main features; musical attributes, culture and community message. Rap is a mix of poetry or poetic lyric, beats and their rhyming. The subject of rap can vary from relationships to commercialism. Rappers like to make references to love, sex, violence, socio-political issues, crime, race and anything that depicts their street life.
Hip-hop is a lifestyle that includes rap, graffiti art, break dancing and DJing. An important technique in Hip-hop is beatboxing, a form of vocal percussion, which involves the art of producing drum beats and musical sounds with mouth, tongue and lips. Singers synthesize the lyrics to fast-paced music, that is often used as a background to dance routines. Hip-hop is about soulful singing. An influential form of hip-hop was Jamaican dub music. In 1967, a Jamaican immigrant, DJ Kool Herc introduced dub in New York. Read the rest of this entry »
Best Rap Songs
Rap songs are the musical play of words and rhymes. The rap songs are a major part of the hip hop culture and the identity of the Gen X. Rapping is a form of poem written beforehand and sung on the spot with some music played in the background. There are many rappers who tend to change or create their rap songs on the spot that makes them so popular. Over the years, rap songs have topped the music charts and billboards, breaking all records. Each rapper comes up with something better and improvised, each number surpassing the other. This has led to the creation of best rap songs list, that contains the very best hip hop songs. Ice Cube, Akon, Eminem, Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, etc. are just some of the best rappers in town. The following paragraph will cover some of the top 100 best rap songs ever.
Top 100 Best Rap Songs of All Time
1. Kid ‘n Play – “Rollin’ With Kid N Play”
2. L’Trimm – “Cars With The Boom”
3. MC Lyte – “Cha Cha Cha”
4. Kurtis Blow – “The Breaks”
5. MC Hammer – “U Can’t Touch This”
6. UTFO – “Roxanne Roxanne”
7. T.I. – “What You Know”
8. Cold Crush Brothers – “Cold Crush Bros. at the Dixie”
9. Kanye West ft/ Jamie Foxx – “Gold Digger”
10. Salt-N-Pepa – “Push It” Read the rest of this entry »