Knowra Rap music Rap music Rap music is a vocal style built around rhythmic, rhyming speech, often performed over a beat. Its lyrics and delivery can emphasize storytelling, wordplay, social commentary, or dance.
Flow (rap) : Flow is the rhythmic pattern and phrasing a rapper uses to deliver lyrics over music. Flow connects speech rhythm to the beat and gives each rapper a distinctive delivery.
Hip-hop : Hip-hop is a cultural movement encompassing rap, DJing, breakdance, and graffiti, originating in the Bronx in the 1970s. Rap is one of hip-hop’s central cultural practices.
Battle rap : Battle rap is a form of rap competition in which performers trade insults, boasts, and improvised or prepared verses. It turns rap’s verbal agility and competitive bravado into a central performance format.
Spoken word : Spoken word is an oral performance art centered on expressive speech, often presented without musical accompaniment. Both foreground language, but rap typically organizes delivery around a beat.
Rhyme scheme : A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes across lines of verse. Rap lyrics use internal and end rhymes to build patterns across bars.
Bronx : The Bronx is a borough of New York City and the birthplace of hip-hop culture. The borough’s block parties and communities shaped rap’s early development.
Conscious hip-hop : Conscious hip-hop is rap that foregrounds social, political, or philosophical themes. It shows how rap lyrics can carry sustained commentary on public life.
Singing : Singing is the production of musical tones with the voice, often organized around melody and sustained pitches. Rap prioritizes rhythmic speech, though many performances blend it with singing.
Beat (music) : A beat is the recurring pulse or rhythmic foundation of a piece of music. The beat provides the rhythmic framework against which a rapper places syllables.
DJ Kool Herc : DJ Kool Herc is a Jamaican-born DJ credited with pioneering hip-hop parties in the Bronx during the 1970s. His extended breakbeat technique gave early MCs space to address and energize crowds.
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