Introduction Of Rap

Rapping also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the artist speaks lyrically in rhyme and verse generally to an instrumental or synthesized beat. Beats almost always in 4/4 time signature can be created by sampling or sequencing portions of other songs by a producer.They also include synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands. Rappers may write, memorize, or improvise their lyrics and perform their works a cappella or to a beat.

Hip hop music predates the introduction of rapping into hip hop culture. The roots of rapping are found in African-American music and ultimately African music, particularly that of the griots of West African culture.  are often considered "godfathers" of hip hop music.

The Start Of A New Era

Clive Campbell also known as DJ Kool Herc is a Jamaican born American DJ who is said to be the originator of hip hop music in the early 1970s in The Bronx, New York City. His playing of hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown was an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Bronx. Campbell began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record, which emphasized the drum beat the break and switch from one break to another to yet another.

Using the same two turntable setup of disco DJs, Campbell used two copies of the same record to emphasize the break. This breakbeat DJing using hard funk rock and records with Latin percussion formed the basis of hip hop music. Campbell's announcements and exhortations to dancers helped lead to rhymed spoken accompaniment now known as rapping. He called his dancers break-boys and break-girls, also known as Bboys and Bgirls. Campbell's DJ style was quickly taken up by figures such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. Unlike them he never made the move into commercially recorded hip hop in its earliest years.