Rap dates back all the way to the late 1970s. It was discovered in the Bronxs and has developed to become one of the most streamed genres of music today. This type of music originated from African American gangs as a way to disrespect other gangs via music instead of violence. Performing for Rap started community centers, block parties, and nightclubs, which would later change into live performances with 3.9 Million people in Chicago and the artist was Drake.
Then the 1980s and 90s would come up and Rap would take a new look it evolved into less of a pop style and more of a rock-sounding beat. This generation of Rap also included women getting into this scene, these were names like Roxanne Shanté, Salt-n-Pepa, MC Lyte, and Queen Latifah. Then getting into more of the late 80s/90s came one of the biggest names in the industry Ice Cube making well-known songs in our generation one of these being, It Was a Good Day. With this new wave of artists came a new label on Rap it was called “Gansta”.
With this new label of Rap following the 21st century came new big-name artists. 50-cent, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre. This era of Rap became one of the best-known eras with all these big names now and even still to this day are widely known as the best in the industry. The public called this version of Rap fused R&B and funk mixed with a little bit of Hip Hop. This would set up the next generation of artists very well.
Then came Generation Z ways of Rap which includes a huge name Kanye West. He would quickly become the biggest name of his time. He achieved his success with less of a gangster style of rap and more of a lyrical and hip-hop style. This way of Rap didn’t fit his era but Kanye was willing to try new styles of Rap. It would work winning him his first Grammy in 2004 for his album “The Collage Dropout” and 2 others for best Rap song (Jesus Walks) also winning best R&B song (You Don’t Know My Name) all in the same year. Kanye would later win 24 Grammys putting his name up with the greats. This would paint the path for a new artist named Kendrick Lamar.
Kendrick had a slower start to his career taking 9 years from the dropping of his first song to his first hit “The Recipe” which reached 38th on Billboard's Top 100 songs. He would continue to drop good songs and albums. He would later drop one of his many well-known albums “Section.80” with a little over 1 billion streams. It was only uphill from there for Kendrick's next drop “good kid, m.A.A.d city” This album would reach 5 billion streams and giving him his first Grammy nomination. The next year he would win his first Grammy with his song from ‘To Pimp A Butterfly” called I which would win Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. Then came his most known album to this day “DAMN” This album had a very jazzy feeling and talked about Kendricks feeling cursed and all his sins leading to his eventual death. Earning 7 billion streams and still being listened to this day. It would win Rap Album of the Year and be nominated for Album of the Year. One of Kendrick's best-known songs came from this album his song “HUMBLE” winning 3 different Grammys, Best Rap Song, Best Music Video, and Best Rap Performance.
To this day rap has remained the biggest streamed music and new artists are rising monthly. With new social media becoming big in this industry has become easier than before. We still have recurring artists dropping almost yearly. These are well-known artists Travis Scott, Future, Metro Booming, Playboy Carti, Lil Yachty, and of course the “big 3” Drake, J. Cole, and Kendrick. However, Kendrick has recently spoken out about this in a recent Future Song “Like That” Saying there no big 3 “It's just big me” and Dissing Drake and J. Cole in other lyrics of this song starting rap beef which we haven't seen since Eminem.
Questions:
1. If you're involved in that current Rap beef which side are choosing and why?
2. How long have you been listening to Rap if you have?
3. If you dont listen to rap why haven't you listened to it?
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I don't like listening to rap. I don't know why I dont like it but I just don't. I am currently not involved in the current rap beef and I won't be involved.
I don't really like listening to rap music so most of this imformation is new to me. I don't listen to rap music because most of it is taliking about thing that I don't do and the words can be fast and hard to understand which is why I would rather listen to country music
I'm not involved in the current rap beef. I do sometimes listen to rap, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite genre of music, and I listen to other genres more. If I do listen to rap music, I usually listen to artists like Eminem or Joyner Lucas. My sisters used to always play rap music when I was little.
kendrick be having some fire songs so i mean id be on his side probably. idk maybe since i was 6 or 7.
Im choosing the rap side. Since i was a kid when i was forced to on the radio. Dont like rap.
Im not sure which side i would choose, but if i were to it would probably be hip-hop just bevause i listen to more of that than rap. Im not sure how long but i listen to other things more. I don't listen to it as much because i like country more than rap.
Sometimes I will listen to a little bit of rap music but I don't usually like listening to it since it seems like it is in a fast pace and most of them sound angry. If rap was a bit slower then I would probably listen to it and if it didn't sound angry then yes I would listen to it.
I don't personally listen to rap or hip/hop music that much. Some of my friends listen to them, so I will occasionally hear a song or two from them, or on the radio. Whenever I need upbeat music that I can just play in the background, I will play Drake or Eminem.
I dont usually listen to rap but I do believe there are some good songs out there but I personally don't usually like listening to it because it always seams to be hateful or have an angry tone. Every once in a wile I will hear a rap song and I usually shut it off because they talk to fast.
I am not involed with the rap beef going on. I have been listening to rap since I was young but I will listen to all type of music. I do listen but I just listen to whatever music I am in the mood for.
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