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All style rap hip hop6/8/2023 ![]() Hip - hop songs, or rap songs, have roots in much older traditions of African-American poetry and song. Hip-hop artists like the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, NWA, Public Enemy and Run DMC drew on the legacy of old African-American musical forms like field hollers and the blues to create a distinctive art form grounded in social protest which used spoken word poetry, sampling, scratching and drumming as the main agents of change. ![]() ![]() The style was generally known as "rap" in its early days, and this term is still interchangeable with "hip-hop" when discussing the genre broadly. In the 1970s and 1980s, the emergence of hip-hop in the African-American communities of cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles, took longstanding African-American musical traditions in new directions.
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