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The most popular and influential form of
African-American pop music of the 1980\'s and 1990\'s, rap is also one of the
most controversial styles of the rock era. And not just among the guardians of
cultural taste and purity that have always been counted among rock \'n\'
roll\'s chief enemies--Black, White, rock and soul audiences continue to
fiercely debate the musical and social merits of rap, whose most radical
innovations subverted many of the musical and cultural tenets upon which rock
was built.
Most people refer to rap as “ a noise that black people make”. Well it is not.
Rap is defined as signifying, testifying, and shining of the titanic. Rap
started in the south bronx section of New York.(Davey D. 7) Most of the rap
that is heard today draws its rots from the jamacian art form known as
toasting.(Davey D. 4)
Another definitoin of rap which is most known, is saying rhymes to the beat of
music. The main musical insturnments used in a rap song are, keyboards,
turntables, drums, and musical bass.(busboy.com) The original rap started back
in the 1940’s with Cal Calloway. He is known for his signature
“Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho” which was a chant from the “ Minnie Moocher” In the
1940\'s, Calloway used a call and response format with his audience, which is
one of the foundations of rap. (busboy.com)
In the early 1800’s, a new form of a music player came out, it was called the
sampler. A sampler is an electronic device which can precisely replicate an
existing sound or track of music. Today, we call this kind of device a drum
machiene. Rappers use this machine to duplicate music tracks so that they don’t
have to have someone doing it for them all the time. This tool became verry
useful in the music industry, today, almost all of the bands that you see in
concert are using a drum machine, or a sampler.(busboy.com)