New Rap Music

  • Notes about Rap Music
    Rap is very popular today. It seems that just about every car I drive past is playing rap music. But what is rap, and how did it start. A lot of people think hip-hop is the same thing as rap. Hip hop is the urban youth culture that was developed by black Americans and Latinos in the Bronx (New York) in the seventies and eighties. Dee-jaying (disc jockeying), emceeing (speaking with/over a record, which is what evolved into rapping), graffiti (where artists would leave their personal sign on Read More...
  • Jay-Z - Blueprint - Rap Music CD Review
    One word describes the CD Blueprint from Jay-Z... AWESOME! I wish it weren’t the case but, it’s not everyday that I get a CD from an artist that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just can’t force myself to get through. Not at all the case with Blueprint. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish. Blueprint is a nicely varied, mix of 13 tracks that are very well written songs by th Read More...
  • The New Generation of Hip-Hop
    It was 1979 when Rapper’s Delight was released into the airwaves marking, what most people call, beginning of Rap era. Unfortunately for me, I wasn’t born yet so I have no nostalgic memories of listening to it when it came out. The first time I heard “Rapper’s Delight” was in 1997 and it was sung by Erick Sermon, Keith Murray & Redman. I was about 12 years old and ignorant to the fact that it wasn’t an original song. I remember my older brother calling me dumb for not knowing it was a re-mak Read More...
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