Rap

By opesmeyers1
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    Acient Africans sing stoties to rythme

    Thousands of years ago in Africa “griots”, where village storytellers who played basic handmade instruments while they told stories of their family and local current events. This style of talking while music is playing is rap music as we know it at its root form.
  • Apr 16, 1500

    The word Rap first started being used

    Rap is a very old word,It appeard as early as the 15th and 16th century in Britain the word origanly meant to strike or hit.

  • The word rap changed its meaning

    A few centuries later the deffinition changed to speak or talk.

  • The word rap meaning changed again

    In America around the 1960’s it began to pop up in black communities and was used as a slang word that meant that someone was talking or having a convorsation.
  • The first hip hop song was made DJ Kool

    The first hip hop song was made DJ Kool

  • Rap music reached mainstream recognition

    Rap music finaly reached mainstream recognition in 1979

  • New school hip hop was the second wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J.

  • Hip Hop golden age

    Hip hop's golden age is a name given to a period in mainstream hip hop, usually cited as being a period varying in time frames during the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence.

  • hip hop became coporate

  • Eminem released his first album called infanite

    This made a new style of rap music