Facts About Rap Music

Rap is poetry, over cool & groovy beats despite what any other people say. It has survived the test of time becoming stronger and stronger in the music business. Many people believed when rap started it was just a passing faze, but the domination of rap has grown to superstar status with many rap stars now enjoying film careers and millionaire lifestyles that exceeded many famous sports men and actors . The new rap stars have millions and millions of die hard fans giving them huge potential earnings from advertising big company products.

While hip-hop is known to have originated in the East Coast, particularly the Bronx, New York, the roots of gangster rap are accredited to the West Coast, particularly, Compton, California. Gangster rap is a subset of hip-hop music that originated in the 1990s when rapper Ice Cube and his former group, NWA.

Many lyrically-inclined rappers are likable when consumed in small doses, but they can also get mind-numbingly boring while trying to hold down an entire album. Rap music is hated by many people that believe in the stereo type that only blacks make rap, and it's always about shooting cops, drugs, money and sex. However, the truth is that music originating from the underground probably has more meaning to it.

30 years since, Hip-Hop has evolved in many directions, from the Alternative Rap sounds of A Tribe Called Qwest, to Surge Knight's gangster roster on Death Row Records, to the huge commercial success of 50 Cent and talented newcomers Blackalicious. It has also for the very first time this year been the number one act at Glastonbury with Jay z bringing the house down with his entrance singing the oasis song wonder wall.

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