Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music: A Fresh Look at the Art of Hip-Hop, from Old-School Beats to Freestyle Rap - Softcover

EDWARDS, PAUL

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250034817 ISBN 13: 9781250034816

Verlag: Griffin, 2015

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In 1973, the music scene was forever changed by the emergence of hip-hop. Masterfully blending the rhythmic grooves of funk and soul with layered beats and chanted rhymes, artists such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash paved the way for an entire new genre and generation of musicians.
In this comprehensive, accessible guide, Paul Edwards breaks down the difference between old school and new school, recaps the biggest influencers of the genre, and sets straight the myths and misconceptions of the artists and their music. Fans old and new alike will all learn something new about the history and development of hip-hop, from its inception up through the current day, in The Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music.

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Paul Edwards is a writer and researcher of hip-hop who has interviewed more than 100 rappers and has done extensive research on rappers' creative processes, musical theories, and lyrics. He is regarded as a leading expert on hip-hop and rap, and has been referred to as 'the Aristotle of Hip-Hop poetics' by internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet Dana Gioia. He holds a master's degree in postmodernism, literature, and contemporary culture from University of London.

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The Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music

A Fresh Look at the Art of Hip-Hop, from Old-School Beats to Freestyle Rap

By Paul Edwards

St. Martin's Griffin

Copyright © 2015 Paul Edwards
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-250-03481-6

Contents

Title Page, 
Copyright Notice, 
Acknowledgments, 
Part I: Hip-Hop 101, 
1. What Is Hip-Hop?, 
2. Hip-Hop Music Appreciation, 
3. Debunking Hip-Hop Myths, 
Part II: Influencers, 
4. Influential Rappers, 
5. Influential Beatmakers, 
6. Hip-Hop Instruments, 
Part III: History, 
7. Old School / New School, 
8. The Golden Age of Hip-Hop, 
9. Landmark Albums in Hip-Hop History, 
Notes, 
Index, 
About the Author, 
Copyright, 

CHAPTER 1

What Is Hip-Hop?

The term hip-hop made its first appearance at parties. Keith Cowboy, of the group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, started using the term around 1975, and it was then adopted by other popular rappers of the time.

Kid Creole, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

On that term Hip Hop. A friend of ours named Billy was about to go to the Army, I think this was '75. We had a party.... This was Billy's last weekend before shipping out, and Cowboy was on the mic playin' around doing that Army cadence: Hip/Hop/Hip/Hop. But he was doin' it to music and people was diggin' on it.... Cowboy was the first one I heard do that to music, as part of his crowd response.

Grandmaster Caz, Cold Crush Brothers

Hip-hop was a word that was first coined by Keith Cowboy and made popular by Lovebug Starski. It was like a bridge between what you were saying, like you're saying a rhyme, and then you get to the end of it and you're going, "to the hip, the hop, the hip hip, the hop, it don't stop."

The term was then picked up by the media covering the music at the time. Afrika Bambaataa applied the term to the entire scene, presenting the scene to members of the press as a fully formed movement.

Afrika Bambaataa

[The term hip-hop] was really from my brothers Love Bug Starski and Keith Cowboy, who were using it in their rhymes. So when [the media] came to ask us what to call the whole thing, I could've said the go-off, the jim-jam or whatever. But I remembered the rhymes they were doing, so I said, "We call this whole culture hip-hop." Because it was hip and you got to hop to the beat.

Steven Hager

Fab 5 Freddy introduced me to Afrika Bambaataa, and Afrika Bambaataa told me that the name of the culture was hip-hop. That's the first time I ever heard the word hip-hop in my life. The first time it appears in print, as far as I know, is when I write my first article for the Village Voice on Afrika Bambaataa [in 1982].

Hip-Hop Music

Hip-hop generally signifies the musical genre, and the term has spread around the world due to the proliferation of hip-hop albums and singles. Some of the world's most popular and acclaimed music stars are hip-hop artists. When people express opinions on "the state of hip-hop" and "where hip-hop is going," they are usually referring to hip-hop as a musical genre.

Lord Jamar, Brand Nubian

Hip-hop is one of the most influential musics in the world.... There's so many different genres of hip-hop now. There's hip-hop that you hear on the radio, and there's the hip-hop that you don't get to hear, [where] the flows are dope and they're moving hip-hop forward in a different kind of way. And there's hip-hop that you get to hear all the time that's not doing that, that's dumbing it down, that's making it more simple, and they're not doing what I would like to see done.

Buckshot, Black Moon

Hip-hop is surviving, longer than a lot of music has. It's surviving longer than disco, longer than [other genres]. Hip-hop has changed, but hip-hop is great, man, hip-hop to me is a beautiful, beautiful thing and in a beautiful place because ... every time there's a new young generation there's a new form to give them, that's still hip-hop.

The two main elements that make up hip-hop music are rapping and beat-making. These are sometimes referred to as simply beats and rhymes, where rhymes refers to rapping, while beats are the instrumental tracks that are rapped over.

Artists and fans often use the term beats and rhymes when they're talking about the essence of the music. If a song is stripped back to just hard beats and rhymes, it could be considered more authentic than songs with elaborate choruses and melodies, which take the focus off the two central ingredients.

DJ Premier

His new album is strictly hard beats and rhymes.

J-Ro, Tha Alkaholiks

The album basically, it's a lot of hard beats and rhymes ...

Inspectah Deck, Wu-Tang Clan

The classic Hip Hop beats and rhymes of the 90s and before ...

The term beats and rhymes is used often throughout the music, as in the title of A Tribe Called Quest's album Beats, Rhymes, & Life, and in the lyrics of many other notable artists' songs, such as Gang Starr's "Stay Tuned," De La Soul's "Verbal Clap," Queen Latifah's "Ladies First," LL Cool J's "Can't Think," and Dilated Peoples' "20/20."

Rapping

Rapping, also known as "MCing," refers to performing lyrics rhythmically to a beat as a type of vocal percussion, often with a heavy emphasis on rhyming and rhyme schemes.

Tech N9ne

Having the rhythm to being able to stay on beat, it made me sort of like a percussionist. I always wanted to play drums, so if you listen to my flow it's like I'm beating on bongos or something.

Rah Digga

I like all the phrases, the whole line, to rhyme if I can help it. Instead of just the last two syllables in the line and two lines that rhyme, I like to rhyme four, five, six, seven syllables, like the whole line if I could, for as long as I can.

This is done by a rapper or MC ("master of ceremonies")—these two terms are usually used interchangeably with no difference in meaning, although some artists make distinctions. "MC" is sometimes used to imply a greater degree of live performance skill.

Buckshot, Black Moon

A rapper is somebody who can rap on the mic and sound good and flow good and do it onto a beat and everything. An MC can grab that mic and control a party [like] Doug E. Fresh ... he's a master of the ceremony, he's an MC.

One Be Lo, Binary Star

Okay, I'm gonna be real picky about this. To me it's the difference between a rapper and an MC. Some people make amazing albums which makes them great, [where you say,] "He's a great recording artist, but he ain't a great MC, he can't rock the crowd." Most artists in general, I just think cats don't know how to rock the mic [at a live event]. Even people that's making amazing music, they still don't know how to perform. A lot of these cats, regardless of their level of talent and skill or whatever, they just don't know how to rock the crowds, so that's some MC shit to me. MCing is something totally different to me and only very few people can do that.

Another use of the terms is to suggest that "rappers" are more commercially focused and less skillful, while "MCs" are more genuine, authentic, and proficient.

KRS-One

An MC is a representative of hip-hop culture. A rapper is representative of corporate...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Griffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250034817
• ISBN 13: 9781250034816
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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