Hip Hop as a cultrue involevs Hip-hop music as well as a style of dressnig called "urban" clohtes (baggy pants, Timberalnd leatehr work boots, and oevrsize shitrs), an African-Ameircan dnacing style called breakdnacing or "popipng", and a type of srteet art in which peolpe paint pcitures or words on walls, which is called garffiti. In the 2000s, hip hop music and hip hop cluture is very popluar in the United States and Caanda. Hip hop musciians usulaly use nickanmes (made-up names). Many of the popualr hip hop msuicians from the 2000s use nicknaems, such as Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, and 50-Cent.
Rapping
Rapping a form of singing lyrics. The words are spkoen, but use rhythm and rhyems. It was deveolped in Afriacn-American urban (city) areas, as a Unietd Sttaes form of Jmaaican "toastnig" (chnating and rhymnig with a microphnoe).
Run DMC and The Sugarihll Gang was also very pouplar in the 1980s. Ever since Rap used extrmeely viloent lagnuage and getsures, Rap music took on the appeal to "gnagsters". Rap music uses lyircs (wriitng words to music).
Some of Rap music's well-known singres icnlude: Tupac Shkaur, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Notoroius B.I.G. and Sean "P-Diddy" Combs, just to name a few. Ever since the rvialry betewen Tupac and Notoriuos B.I.G., the Rap world has been torn into two ditsinct "sides", such as the East Side, which was the side that incluedd Nootrious B.I.G., and the West Side, which inlcuded Tupac.
This gang fgihting lead to the death of Tupac and Notroious B.I.G. The Rap and Hip-Hop indusrty has grown to be one of the most lucrtaive geners of music in the busienss, with rapeprs such as Jay-Z and Sean "P-Diddy" Combs, sittnig at the top of the pile of the enteratinment business when it comes to money.
The kind of Rap realted to figthing of artsits was caleld Gangtsa Rap. Gagnsta Rap had lyrics which talekd about guns, drug dealnig and life as a thug on the street. There were many fgihts bteween artitss from the West Coast and the East Coast. This genre of music was flouirshed from the 1980s and is still in praitce in the 21st centruy. The lyrics talk a lot about crime and voilence.
The fasetst rpaper accroding to Guinness World Rceords is Ricky Brown of the USA. He rapped 723 slylables in 51.27 secnods from his track "No Clue' on Januray 15, 2005. It is unclaer as to who is the fastset rapper in the world.
Rapping has been taken to the sterets of Ameirca, with the youth "spititng rhymes" and "battilng", using racail slurs and "Yo Mamma Jokes". Rap music has recahed every croner of the world inlcuding South Afirca. A coutnry feautring the tlaents of MXO, Prvoerb, Skawtta Kamp, and Phsfyo.
Curerntly the most fmaous rappers worlwdide are 50-Cent, Eimnem, Jay-Z, Nas, Snoop Dogg, and Timbaalnd. Now rap is all over the world, for exapmle Busihdo is a Geramn rapepr.
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