The Buzz Of Street Music

By Farah Fan


Recently, the quickest expanding and most popular kind of music has been street music, rap and hip hop. The expansion has been remarkable. The rap music trend got going in the late 1970's with a group of young African-Americans called the Sugar Hill Gang. Their hit single "Rapper's Delight" took through the billboard charts, becoming the very first rap song to make it to number one spot. With this breakthrough, the rap business was created. More groups of "rappers" sprouted from everywhere in the 1980's. In the earlier years of rap music's development, rap was primarily listened to and made by young African-Americans; yet in the mid 1990's more people of all races and socio-economic backdrops began listening thanks to white rappers as well.

There are various kinds of rap. The most frequent form of rap is freestyle. This consists of making up words that rhyme as quickly as humanly possible. Freestyle rap is usually done to a beat or rhythm, but can be performed as a cappella. The words are not known or rehearsed and they normally have a certain rhyme scheme. In modern times, freestyle rap has a central message or idea. To be proficient at freestyle rap, one must have outstanding vocal depth, enunciation and breathe control. One also needs to have an outstanding command of the English language.

The two main forms of freestyle rap: one is scripted (recitation), but having no particular overriding subject matter, the second typically referred to as "freestyling" or "spitting", is the improvisation of rapped lyrics. When freestyling, some artists accidentally reuse old lines, or even "cheat" by preparing segments or entire verses in advance. Therefore, freestyles with proven impulsiveness are valued above generic, always usable lines. Rappers will often reference places or objects in their immediate environment, or specific (usually demeaning) characteristics of competitors, to prove their genuineness and creativity.

As time went on, rap variations developed along with the expanding call for fascinating new sounds. New techniques and styles surfaced as rappers were pushed to new limitations. To deal with the ever growing need for something new, rappers created rapping techniques that had never been heard before.

To actually deliver the street music rap, a new artist must also get vocal presence, enunciation, and breath control. Vocal presence is the distinctiveness of a rapper's voice on record. Enunciation is important to a flowing rap; some artists choose also to exaggerate it for comic and artistic effect. Breath control, taking in air without interrupting one's delivery, is an important ability for a rapper to perfect, and a must for any MC. An MC with poor breath control cannot deliver tough verses without making unintentional pauses. The strongest battle rappers will usually do their rap fully freestyle. This is the most effective form in a battle as the rapper can comment on the other person, whether it is what they look like, or how they talk, or what they wear. It also allows the rapper to reverse a line used to "diss" him or her if they are the second rapper to battle. This is known as a 'flip'.




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