Rap (also known as emceeing) is a rhythmic discourse with rhymes and poetry that emerged in the late twentieth century among the black communities of the United States. It is one of the five fundamental pillars of hip hop culture, so that it is called metonymically (and inaccurately) hip hop.

It can be interpreted as a capella as well as a background music called beat box. rap nacional singers are known as rappers or MCs, short for master of ceremonies.

Start.

The rap, marketed in the US, developed both inside and outside hip hop culture, and began with street parties in the 1970s by Jamaicans and others. They introduced the big folk parties into big sheds, with the practice of having an MC, who came onstage with the DJ and cheered the crowd, shouting and encouraging with the rhyming words, until rap was formed. The origin of Rap came from Jamaica, about the 1960s when sound systems appeared, which were put on the streets of Jamaican ghettos to liven up dances. These dances served as a backdrop for the toasters’ speech, authentic masters of ceremonies who commented in their interventions on subjects such as the violence of the favelas in Kingston and the political situation of the Island, while talking about, of course, Such as sex and drugs. In the early 1970s many young Jamaicans were forced to emigrate to the United States due to an economic and social crisis that hit the island. And one in particular, the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc, introduced in New York the tradition of sound systems and spoken song and was spreading and popularizing among the poorer classes until reaching high society.

Etymology.

With the acceptance of racionais rap music in the most recent social media (in the last twenty years), the word rap is currently “online” being a popular neologism of the acronym for rhyme and poetry (rhyme and poetry); However, despite the association with poetry and rhythm, the meaning of the word rap is not an acronym in itself, but it describes a rapid speech that precedes the musical form (of rhythm and poetry), and means “to beat.” The word rap has been used in British English since the sixteenth century, and specifically meaning “say” (“tell”, “tell the tale”) since the 18th century. It was part of African-American vernacular English in the 1960s, meaning “to talk,” and shortly thereafter, in its current usage, denotes musical style.

As an example of the erudite meaning of the word, in English, we can mention a salesman, in a commercial environment, in which he is making his “talk” for the sale of the product; You can say that this “talk” is his “rap”. Used as in “that’s my rap” (or “that’s my rap”),

Meaning “This is his talk” (or “my talk”). Rap, in this example, is the “idea that someone wants to sell you”; The “explanation” itself; The “chat.”

Rap in Music.

Rap, in music, is extremely reliable to poetic improvisation about a beat in fast tempo and is often only accompanied by bass sound, or without accompaniment. Rap is a rare musical style in which the text is more important than the melodic line or the harmonic part; Being one of the only two musical styles in the history of Western music in which the text is more important than music — the other being the Gregorian chant, in which the music was a monody, homophonic, marked by rhythm, and the melody religiously The liturgical text could never stand out. The rap does not use melodies and decorative motifs and harmonics with elaborate arrangements of the insurances, but it is only worth in how fast the singer narrates his “speech” with very little musicality added to his poetry. Rap music also has a distinct similarity to Celtic music in which it forms a joke in which singers try to duel their phrases with rhymes, quickly improvised and humorous; Alternately, one challenging the other in quick smart phrases; Who wins — leaving the other exhausted without ideas — does not pay for drinks. This indirect and unintended influence came from root music, folklore, imported by the Scottish and Irish immigrants who migrated to the southern US, from plantation farms, such as African-American music, which by the people of the South, with music Of improvisation, in the Jazz of root, appears in the duels of banjo (country) later, and of these “duels” also appears, much later, the rap.