RAP/HIP-HOP: EARLY ORIGINS FROM THE DARK-SIDE OF THE STREETS
In the 1970s, Rap music started out from the streets of South Bronx, New-York with basic recording and use of equipment such as microphones and stereos. With the creation of the turntable out, young kids experimenting with music and aspiring DJs (disc-jockeys) would sample audio from movies or pieces of other music genres and incorporate these samples into their own beats. Others would create original styles of beats that rap and hip-hop producers of the upcoming generations would take inspiration from or even recycle.
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In terms of rapping itself, the use of different poetic techniques, figurative language and development of "flow" by New-York rapper Rakim, would mark the era of a Hip-Hop "Golden Age." Despite all the creative aspects of these recently-conceived genres, Rap and Hip-Hop started out from the dark, vice-filled stories of life in the streets: sex, drugs, money, and violence.
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