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Timeline of rap

Rap is a type of popular music, originated by African Americans, in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over a prerecorded, typically electronic instrumental backing.

Rap music technically originated thousands of years ago in Africa, by village story tellers (called "griots"). The style of talking while music is playing is rap music as we know it in its root form.

DJ Cool Herc is best known for inventing hip hop on a turn table, but he also unknowingly created rap when he realized words needed to be put on music to keep the crowd live, so he invited his friend Coke La Rock to rap a bar: ” There’s not a man that can’t be thrown, not a horse that can’t be rode, a bull that can’t be stopped, there’s not a disco that I Coke La Rock can’t rock”.

Kurtis Blow

The first rapper signed to a major label (Mercury Records) in 1979

http://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/examining-raps-origins/

Fatback band, 1979

The first group to have a rap song commercially released (“King Tim III (Personality Jock)” )
Rap's first mainstream recognition

http://colemizestudios.com/how-did-rap-start/

Sugarhill Gang was the first group comprised of only rappers
Song was over 14 minutes long and used the “Good Times by Chic” sample in the background
Went on to achieve the top 40 billboard spot in 1980

http://colemizestudios.com/how-did-rap-start/

Quiz

When did hip hop finally reach mainstream recognition?

1980
1973
1979
1971

The west coast initially expanded rap past the east coast rappers
Too Short, Ice Cube, & N.W.A. shined brightest
Incorporated themes of pimping and hustling into their rhymes
Guns, women, liquor, and other aspects of urban life were viewed from the perspective of a gangster

http://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/examining-raps-origins/

Male rappers portrayed females disrespectfully and inappropriately
Female rappers came on the scene in the mid-1990s
Rap’s most visible female pioneers were Salt-N-Pepa, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, and Yo Yo

http://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/examining-raps-origins/

The east coast v. west coast rivalry was a feud from roughly 1991-1997
The most prominent leaders of the rivalry were 2Pac & Biggie

In the 2000s younger rappers like Lil Bow Wow became the norm
It was also routine for singers to feature on rapper's songs or vise versa

Quiz

Which of the following rappers represents the "East Coast?"

Busta Rhymes
Snoop Dogg
Kendrick Lamar
MC Hammer

Today's rapping style is less lyrical and more about the beat
It is only fueled more by online downloads and streaming than physical cd's