The 80s put rap music and hiphop on the map, but even though the underground movement was strong, few rap artists were getting airtime on conventional radio stations. The conservative bigwigs found the lyrical content too controversial or in some cases the subject matter was too violent. With the arrival of the 90s, however, rap ...
Music critics said rap music wouldn’t last. Record companies said it was too harsh and black-oriented. In twenty years, rap music has grown from its street beginnings in Harlem and the South Bronx. It now comprises a dominant media pattern through traditional music medium such as cassettes and CDs, as well as television talk shows ...
This list of the top 10 rap songs of all time is bound to create some controversy. Rap has only been around as a musical genre for about 30 years, but in that time has gone from being a fringe street fad to a multi-billion dollar industry. This list of the top 10 rap songs ...
Big stars from two different styles of music collaborating is how the 10 best rock rap songs were formed. Rap rock crosses genres by having hip-hop artists performing over hard hitting rock instrumental beats. The best rock rap songs come from original collaborations, artists putting their own spin on a song, or fusing two preexisting ...
It is official; you can now say that you have heard of everything. The Rap Culture Community now has actually dubbed a line of products called Rap Snacks as the Official Snack of its community. A businessman that chose to recruit several high profile rap artists to promote, and endorse the snacks formed rap Snacks. ...
Rap music is overplayed, overdone, and really just bland and uninspiring these days. 95% of rap videos involve the true and tested formula of cars, women, money, and drinking. Its a stretch to call most rap artists actual ‘artists’. Its impossible to tell the difference between the Lil Morons and Lil Moneybags of the rap ...
Writing a rap song is a lot like telling a story to a child. It has to be explanatory and rhyme as well. A lot of people believe that they are good rappers just because their rap rhymes, but in reality a good rap will talk a lot about the topic in hand, will rhyming ...
This article ranks the top rap songs of 2011 based on the number of weeks each song has appeared on the Billboard rap chart. Each song’s artist or group, release date, album, peak chart position, number of weeks on the Billboard rap chart, and official video link are included with these rankings. This article will ...
