The most successful styles of the 90s were the hardcore rap of New York and the gangsta rap and G-Funk of Los Angeles. New York's Wu-Tang Clan created one of the first hardcore styles when they rapped about gangster life over swinging hip hop beats with samples from martial-arts movies. In a young rapper named Nas released his first album Illmatic. Its loose mid-tempo beats, jazzy samples and Nas' poetic rapping made Illmatic one of hip hop's greatest albums. Ice-T began by sampling funk rhythms and rapping about the dangers of drugs, crime and dropping out of school in tracks like s You Played Yourself.
The members of NWA were from Compton, one of LA's poorest and most violent districts, and they rapped about the injustice and police violence in their neighbourhood. Their angry raps included a lot of explicit language, and the media attention this created helped their albums reach the top of the charts. G-Funk producers often sampled funk grooves by George Clinton's P-Funk groups Parliament and Funkadelic and slowed them down to create relaxed beats with funky bass lines, electronic effects and female backing vocals.
G-Funk rappers also rapped about gangsta-rap topics, but they focused on partying, drugs and sex more than violence, crime and guns. Hardcore, gangsta and G-Funk rappers often adopted gangster images and their explicit language and the way they rapped about women upset many people. But many others, especially teenage boys, loved these styles and helped them become the sound of mainstream hip hop.
Hip hop became a major genre of popular music in the 21st century, with hip hop singles and albums topping the charts worldwide. Local hip hop scenes developed in many countries and produced successful artists like the UK's Dizzee Rascal and Canada's Drake.
Hip hop has had a strong influence on 21st-century pop music, with many pop songs including elements of hip hop. Pop singers and rappers often collaborate to produce tracks with catchy pop choruses and rapped verses like the single See You Again , a collaboration between pop singer Charlie Puth and rapper Wiz Khalifa that topped the charts in 96 countries in In the s, most major artists were from New York or Los Angeles, but artists from the South became popular after They included the duo Outkast who combined Southern-soul grooves and riffs with clever, entertaining raps.
Other popular artists from the South include Usher, T. More recently, Southern artists like Future and Young Thug have been creating exciting new styles of alternative hip hop.
See also our Disclaimer. Turntable, rapping , drum machine, Sampler, synthesizer , human beatboxing. Since late s in the United States, worldwide beginning in early s, among best-selling genres of music by early s. Rap has a bad reputation in white circles, where many people believe it consists of obscene and violent anti-white and anti-female guttural.
Some of it does. Most does not. Most white listeners don't care; they hear black voices in a litany of discontent, and tune out. Yet rap plays the same role today as Bob Dylan did in , giving voice to the hopes and angers of a generation, and a lot of rap is powerful writing. In Washington, D. The genre of electronic music behaved similarly, eventually evolving into what is known as house music in Chicago and techno in Detroit.
Prior to , recorded hip hop music consisted mainly of PA system recordings of parties and early hip hop mixtapes by DJs. DJ Disco Wiz is created as the first hip hop DJ to create a "mixed plate" when he combined sound bites, special effects and paused beats to technically produce a sound recording in The first hip hop record is widely regarded to be The Sugarhill Gang 's " Rapper's Delight " in There are various other claimants for the title of the first hip hop record.
By the early s, all of the major elements and techniques of the hip hop genre were formed, and by , the electronic electro sound had become the trend on the street and in dance clubs. Though not yet mainstream, hip hop had begun to permeate the music scene outside of New York City; it could be found in cities as diverse as Atlanta, Los Angeles, Washington, D.
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