Big Blog #1

 for my first big blog my genre of music that i will be talking about is Hip Hop. Hip Hop was created back in the 1970s born in new York by Bronx. it was organically influenced by African american dancing and was becoming very popular all over the world. hip hops definition from the US is that its "a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing". Nowadays hip-hop has another name called rap and now hip hop has a lot more aggressive words being said like violence,sex,drugs, and profanity .but this is the point of hip hop, it is supposed to make you feel cool and self confident with the energy and adrenaline rush. the style rap is used in is very unique i think its just a young adults type of music, im sure everyone likes hip hop because its just naturally in our blood. now what many rappers say is that hip-hop is black culture because they do it the best and that it is black music, this was said by Dr dre in an interview where he also said there only one white rapper in his mind that is hands down one of the greatest rappers of all time and its the great Eminem.

Im going to give an example of one of my favorite rappers and one of his famous songs because it is a great example of hip hop and its old school because i want you to see the difference in how rap was when it first started. This song is by an artist know as Easy E in which is real name is Eric lynn Wright and the song name is ‘the Boyz N the Hood” this is the clean version dont worry !

this song is a master piece in the world of hip-hop as well as the artist. Easy E was a well know rapper being in the band NWA with other amazing artist you might know such as Dr dre and Ice cube. unfortunately Easy E passed away early in his life because of AIDS leaving the newer generation with thoughts on what he could become. As some people refer to him as the 'grandfather' of hip hop there were still other rappers on the same level like snoop dog, suge knight, tu pac and biggie small. I personally like to think that these guys are the guys who started it all because they were the first know group to bring hip hop to life.

nowadays hip-hop is a very hot trend around the world and has changed a little bit too. as the rapper Dr dre mentioned in one of his interviews saying "rap has changed bringing more type of sounds and more lyrics". the modern hip hop is now very popular with internet and social media being a thing that back then they did not have. with this new technology there also came new instruments and most importantly auto tune. Auto tune is a device or facility for tuning something automatically, especially a computer software that enables the correction of an out-of-tune vocal performance. now days modern rappers use auto tune when back then it was rarely used. i would like to show you the difference from the old rap and new so for my 2nd example this song is more modern by lil wayne and the song is called Lollipop. 

i thought that this would be a great example because this song shows a different type of beat and the auto tune he uses is very notice able. now days a producers/Dj makes beats for rappers and the rappers buy it off them. they dont really use hand instruments no more they have now like studios where beats are made but the difference between my first example and this example is that you can hear the more modern more clean beats and in the first example the beats were more just plan piano and bass. in hip hop the bass is the most popular i woulds say because it sounds great and vibrates the ear which is very cool. sometimes its usually the beat that people like and the type of beat gives off the type of moods the song gives. like for this example the vibe is partying and thinking about probably sex. for the first example it talks more of a story he is telling and talks about sex,money and violence which is really what he is about just being a gangster. another thing mentioned is that old school beats tend to be more slower with only 2-3 beats the whole song and new school having 6-8 beats in one song with a lot more edited sounds and wide range echos. with this modern hip hop and now internet hip hop is not hard to make because you can just look up a beat and freestyle to it which is what a lot of famous rappers like to do and i am sure they started off like that. Freestyle is a improvisation with or without instrumental beats, in which are recited with no particular subject of structures and with no prior memorization. im sure any other genre can do they same but hip hop is most know for that which many kids do at a young age and its fun. now with kids being very talented and coming up with rymes in there head, they can be as young as 15 years olds and famous with millions of dollars and a lot of clout. 

every artist has there own style of music but it all adds up to being hip-hop. some artist like to use vocals in there music or at-least try and still tend to sound really. one artist that can pull this off very well is NBA young boy. Young boy is know for his gangster like music and love/sad type music,in either he can pull off his high vocal pitch and make it sound very good. young boy was 16 when he first blew up with a famous know song called 38 baby. the reason i am bringing this up is because i just wanted to mention him because he is one of my favorite artists in the hip hop world. but this is my big blog about hip hop, hope you learned something new or atleast found this interesting. :-)

• “Eazy-E.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Mar. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazy-E. 

• “Freestyle Rap.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 Mar. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_rap. 

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