Music History - Hiphop, Rap, R&B
J Young
Hip hop music have their roots from West African music and African-American music. The first rap song to become put onto a vinyl record was, "Rapper's Delight", an audio lesson by the Sugarhill Gang back in the 1970s. This is when block parties started becoming standard in New York City, which gave rap and rap the opportunity explode in popularity. Hip hop's instrumentation originated in funk, R&B, and disco, when used together make this dynamic kind of music. When the DJs at these block parties learned what are the people liked, they began mixing these vinyl records and created music that played continuously with amazing transitions between
songs. Hiphop was actually created by a DJ named Kool Herc, a Jamaican which in fact had moved to the United States with a style that consisted of mixing music by using two copies of the identical record. Many of the poor Jamaican's inside the town could not afford vinyl records, so huge stereo systems were set up to ensure that many could here the rhythmic beats. These stereo systems were the kick-off for your beginning of the
evolution of block parties. So using the musical talent of these amazing DJs, with the use of vinyl record mixing, the culture of rap and rap music came to be.
rap
History of R & B
R&B, which means Rhythm and Blues, was the best influence on music all over the world for most of the 20th century's second-half. Rhythm and Blues is a term with a broad sense, but typically recognizing black-pop music. This kind of music was introduced to the world by artists' combining the music activity styles of jazz and blues. R&B is really what was later developed into what we know as rock and roll. In the 1970s, the term R&B was being used to describe soul and funk music styles, which today we know it describes Rhythm and Blues. Together with being influenced by jazz and blues, R&B also had influences from gospel and disco music. Disco's downturn in the 1980s opened the entranceway for R&B to truly take-off in popularity.