Big Blog

 My first big blog the genre of music that I chose will be talking about is the Hip Hop/Rap industry. Hip Hop was created back in the 1970s born in New York by Bronx. It was organically influenced by African American dancing and was becoming very popular all over the United States. Hip hop definition from the US is that its "a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing". Nowadays hip-hop has another name called rap and now hip hop has a lot more aggressive words being said like violence, sex, drugs, and profanity. But this is the point of hip hop, it is supposed to make you feel cool and confident with the energy and adrenaline rush of pure aggression or resilience. The style rap is used in is very unique I think it's just a young adult's type of music, I'm sure everyone likes hip hop because it's just naturally in our blood from our ancestors growing and being so engaged in the music since I can remember. Now what many rappers say is that hip-hop is black culture because they do it the best and that it is black music, this was said by Dr Dre in an interview where he also said there only one white rapper in his mind that is hands down one of the greatest rappers of all time and it's the great Eminem. Originally Hip - Hop was looked down upon it still is today but I think to a certain degree it's become more acceptable throughout all cultures.

This is an example of Kayne west music which simulates old school and modern combined with the old school rhyme scheme and modern beat. Kayne West is known as a musical genius with the way he tells story of real life events in a abtract way. The reason I am bringing this up is because I just wanted to mention him because he is one of my favorite artists in the hip hop world. I'm going to give an example of one of my favorite rappers and one of his famous songs because it is a great example of hip hop and its old school because I want you to see the difference in how rap was when it first started.

The rapper/Producer Dr Dre mentioned in one of his interviews saying, "rap has changed bringing more type of sounds and more lyrics". The modern hip hop is now very popular with internet and social media being a thing that back then they did not have. With this new technology becoming more advanced there's also some new instruments and most importantly auto tune which hit the industry really hard with early 2000's rappers such as Lil Wayne and T-Pain. Auto tune is a device or facility for tuning something automatically, especially a computer software that enables the correction of an out-of-tune vocal performance. Nowadays modern rappers use auto tune more frequently or often when back then it was rarely used because most artist didn't know how to use it with their style, or they just seemed to not do the new things that could potentially go downhill. I would like to show you the difference from the old rap and new so for my 1st example this song is by lil Wayne and the song is called Lollipop. 

I assume that this would be a great example/reference because this song shows a different type of beat and the auto tune, he uses is very notice able. Producers/Dj makes beats for rappers and the rappers buy it off them. They don't really use hand instruments no more like they would with the blues or other early music genres. Now with the highly advance technology they have now like studios where beats are made. In hip hop the bass is the most popular I would say because it sounds great and vibrates the ear which is very cool. Sometimes it's usually the beat that people like and the type of beat gives off the type of moods the song gives. Like for this example the vibe is partying and thinking about probably sex. The first example it talks more of a story he is telling and talks about sex, money and violence which is really what he is about just being a gangster or tough. Another thing mentioned is that old school beats tend to be slower with only 2-3 beats the whole song and new school having 6-8 beats in one song with a lot more edited sounds and wide range echos. With this modern hip hop and now internet hip hop is not hard to make because you can just look up a beat and freestyle to it which is what a lot of famous rappers like to do, and I am sure they started off like that. Freestyle is an improvisation with or without instrumental beats, in which are recited with no particular subject of structures and with no prior memorization. I'm sure any other genre can do the same, but hip hop is most known for that which many kids do at a young age and its fun. Now with kids being very talented and coming up with rhymes in their head, they can be as young as 15 years old and famous with millions of dollars and a lot of fame.

Every artist seems to have their own style of music, but it all adds up to being hip-hop and some similar/related. Some artists like to use vocals in their music or at-least try and still tend to sound really. One artist that can pull this off very well is NBA young boy. Young boy is known for his gangster like music and love/sad type music, in either he can pull off his high vocal pitch and make it sound very good which noticeably he uses auto tune as well. When NBA young boy was 16 when he first blew up with a famous know song called 38 baby. But this is my big blog about hip hop, hope you learned something new or at least found this interesting.

Wikipedia Contributors. “Kanye West.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Jan. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West.

The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. “Rap | Music.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 20 Dec. 2017, www.britannica.com/art/rap.

“Freestyle Rap.” Wikipedia, 27 Aug. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_rap.