Rap is the rap part, it's rap music! Many people say that all the songs are being read now, especially rap. It is an important element of hip-hop culture. The origin of rap music can be traced back to the chanting passages in The Roots of Black Music. In the 1970s, rap music formally established its own style, and the most important contribution was attributed to the DJ in the popular disco at that time. They mixed the funk rhythm popular among blacks with the disco rhythm and repeated the contents of the same record on the record player. Do your own cycle, with the emergence of DJ's well-known and widely used "disc playing" method, rap began to be circulated by street black culture, and derived a quite rich branch. For example, West Coast rap, South rap, pop rap, old-school rap, Midwest rap, Latin rap, hardcore rap and gangster rap. Foreign rap, East Coast rap, cross-border rap, comedy rap, Christian rap, alternative rap, etc. What we call HIP-HOP is a new word which is born by combining these schools with popular elements. Although as early as the early 1990s, some people thought that this kind of sloppy, abusive and rebellious concert soon disappeared, in fact, in the late 1990s, with the popularity of a group of new rappers and white-dominated rap rock, the music once abandoned by blacks returned to the forefront of pop music, at least in the new century.

Rap is an important part of American black music, the main tone of street culture and a "dark chocolate" in world pop music. This paper tries to introduce several popular American rappers/groups, so that fans can know their background information and find their favorite rappers. First of all, we briefly introduce the origin and development of Rap rap.

In the mid-1970s, disco, break dancing, graffiti art and rap music became popular among black and Hispanic youths in administrative districts outside new york. Teenagers who can't afford to go to fashionable clubs nearby are tired of disco music. They play heavier black punk pop music and repeat the contents of the same record back and forth [such as james brown's "Get on the Good Foot"], making their own mixed music and encouraging dancers to dance more creatively. Soon this dance was called dewdrop dance.

When the host added rap to the music (at first, he recited some street impromptu poems in the popular language of the 1960 s), this music began to become rap music. After that, Theoder in exorcist was even more innovative. He invented the "scratch method", that is, rotating the record by hand to make the stylus move back and forth, so as to obtain repetitive and rhythmic music effects. Another DJ, "Master" Flajs, listened to it with a metronome and a edited recording clip. Then came a street subculture, in which members (called "beat children") wore uniforms, connected stereos to street lamps for free power supply, and created music according to other people's works or their own imagination. A similar music form is called hip Hop, and Lovberg Bugstarsky uses the lyrics of "To the hiP, hop, Hip Hop". Rapper's Delight, released by Sugar Hill Gang from the Bronx at Sugar Hill Company 1979, became a unique song on the list. This new black underground music combines pop words and melodies quickly, with a strong sense of rhythm. Its roots can be traced back to radio pop music broadcasting. In these festivals, DJ plays an important role. It is they who make urban rhythm and blues music popular through radio waves. When they introduce records or songs, they often use some rhyming slang, which is humorous and extremely fast. This language style is an ode to show off and praise African blacks, and it is the style of crazy and fast funny songs that are often sung through the traditional spoken language of African Americans. Breaks released by Mercury Company on 1980 is also a novel song, and there are some other new music. 1982, Avril and his band "Soul Sonic Force" successfully carried out the most daring revolution in the history of rap music, and adapted KRAFTWERK's "Trans Europe Express" into a song called "The Power Station". Through the collaboration between producer Arthur Baker and rap band Soul Sonic Force, Bambata recorded a record, which combines club style, intense electronic music rhythm, European music and a new rap music called DJ Pop Music.

Flash (formerly Joseph Saddler) was the first master to edit records, and his songs added sound effects and rhythm processing (friction records). 1982, The furious five released the album Message. Later, the lead singer Melle Mel left the team, and Flajs published the source, which was closer to the style of block. The host cheese is also a wizard who uses a turntable and mouth.

Run-d. m. c * is a trio from Queens, new york (both born in 1965). They 1986' s third album "Raosomg Hell" became 1 rap platinum album, with Joe Simmons and Joe Simmons. Jason M was in charge of friction recording and performed at Madison Square Garden from 65438 to 0986. The lyrics are full of social views. Some listeners want to seek violence, but Simmons said, "Our fans know we don't want to do this." Some people predicted that this form of music would soon disappear, but it didn't. People in slums have created their own ways of communication, which are widely circulated. 1987, London Percy went to new york to record 12 inch single London Percy. The A side of the tape uses the accent of London black dialect, and the B side uses the reggae style. However, singing is a social phenomenon rather than music. Ironically, it has been used in advertising. Musically equivalent to potato chips, but not the usual bread paste. People who don't like it turn off the TV. "BEASTIE BOYS" is a white trio from a middle-class family (one of them was arrested in Liverpool on 1987 for allegedly hurting a female fan and was later acquitted). They 1987 authorized III to sell 4 million albums, and the buyers were a group of unknown people. This once again confirms the question: "Do you say rap music is for a lofty goal or just for grandstanding?"

Eminem's biggest breakthrough is to prove that whites can also set foot in the black-dominated rap world, and it has achieved great success. At the same time, his rebellion has not only been deeply loved by American teenagers for a long time, but also made him criticized in public opinion.

Eminem, formerly known as B. Marshall Bruce Mathers III, was born in Kansas City, Missouri in June/0/7/973. 1999 The white rapper swept the American charts with his powerful but equally controversial music. Eminem spent his childhood in turbulence. He and his mother lived in several different states, and finally they settled in Detroit, when he was 12 years old. Before he dropped out of ninth grade, he began to engage in rap music and joined several bands, such as Basement Production, New Jack and D 12. Later, he changed his name to Eminem, and published a rough debut album under the name of independent brand FBT in 1997. Although the album is not well evaluated, Eminem is still compared with top rappers such as Nas and AZ by some people, although this comparison is not appropriate. His popularity benefited from an unsigned column interview by Source. Later, he won the annual freestyle performance award of The Awakening Show, which was a powerful counterattack against his former critics, and then he won the runner-up in the annual rap Olympic competition in Los Angeles. In Slim Shady EP album published next year, Eminem mercilessly satirizes his critics. One of the outstanding singles, I don't care at all, has become a very popular hot single in the underground music world. Then Eminem signed a contract with Yu Bo Records, founded by Dr. Derry, who took him as an apprentice and helped him make his first full-length album. Dre's unique rhythm is very conspicuous in Slim Shady LP album, full of violent incitement and distorted lyrics, and also reflects the dark side of Eminem's moral thought. Because in 1997 Bonnie &; Songs like Clyde (which contains the content of killing the mother of the child) are full of dark content, and there are constant verbal disputes between Clyde and his mother. Many folk religious groups accused him of being irresponsible. Nevertheless, the album has achieved great commercial success, such as the singles My Name is My Name and Guilty Harmony, which both achieved good results in the charts, and the album also climbed to the second place in the US album charts in March 199. Then Eminem frequently appeared in the second volume of the album "Sound Bombing" and the album "The Real World of Big Miss" by Rawkus Records. At the same time, his mother took him to court on the grounds that the rapper made inappropriate remarks or even slandered himself in interviews and other activities of Slim Shady LP album, which hurt her feelings, self-esteem and reputation. However, all these negative events did not adversely affect the sales of Eminem's next album. The album "The Marshall Mathers" was first published in March 2000, which made him the most successful rapper since 2Pac and Snoop Doggy Dogg in the mid-1990s. But at the end of this year, his poor personal life and constant accusations eclipsed his business success. Despite being criticized by gay rights organizations, Eminem won three Grammy Awards, reorganized the band D 12 and recorded an album called Devil.