Street music has turned into a well-known music genre. Street music such as rap music is an art form. Hip hop music too made a great progress and needs to be recognized for the art it is now. The influence of street music is seen even on fashion. Rap is, at present, ruling the charts.

People have different perceptions about the origin of rap music.To be able to understand Rap music, one has arrive to understand exactly what is recognized as the Hip Hop culture. Rap is an extremely important area of the evolution of this Hip Hop culture. Besides music, Rap consisted of graffiti, break dancing, new attitudes, and a unique type of clothing. The foundation of the Hip Hop culture was centered in the Bronx in New York City. Rap evolved as the result of frustration in African-American people in the 1970s. This musical genre was created in the crime-ridden neighborhoods of West Bronx, which later dispersed to South Bronx and all over the world.

Maybe even even more important, American Rap music was highly influenced by Jamaican music. Before taking a look at rap music in the United States, music in Jamaica needs to be looked at first. Jamaican music held a huge effect on American Rap music and it\’s creation in the early seventies. Types of Jamaican music that should be looked at are \”toasting\” and \”Dub\” music.

Toasting was usually done at \”Blues Dances\”, these characteristics were regular in the Jamaican ghettos and there they performed American R&B, a method of music brought to them by Black American sailors stationed on the island. With the increasing demand for R&B and the absence of a band on the island that can play this type of music, Jamaicans adapted and created sound systems. These large arrangements were made up of Disk Jockeys (DJ), bouncers, and engineers; they were portable nightclubs or discos that were put in place.

Rap is really distinct from other styles of music. The most distinguishing characteristic of rap music is the extremely fast, yet rhythmically spoken words and phrases. These \”rapped\” words are then documented over the background music that always includes some sort of bass and many keyboard sounds. The absence of musical instruments in many rap songs differentiates it even more from the other styles of music. Yet one of the prime characterizations of rap music is situated within the music\’s lyrics.

Many rap performers and their listeners consider street music and rap to be an \”expression of themselves\” and that the words should not be taken literally. In fact a number of them can relate with the ideas and opinions of the rap artists. Yet many rap music can be considered very controversial in today\’s culture. Artists typically show a thorough expertise in their subject material and to rap effectively, one has to analyze what they are saying. Productive rap artists are already able to bring about some emotive components in their act. This is crucial for connecting with the audience. They rap about matters that they are familiar with and build their vocabulary in subjects about which they would like to rap.