Hey, today we open our new column:
"all about rap", we hope that we'll bring
you (rap fans) all the relevant and actual info
about rap also we'll cover the mainstream of
hip-hop culture from all over the world and from
Israel too.
In our first addition we'll
cover the short history of rap to get you (rap
fans) in the mood. Like we all know (at least
many of us) that rap first appeared in America
but I?m sure that the majority of rap fans don?t
know some of the foundation facts about rap.
Close your eyes for a minute and imagine the
slavery years of the black people in the south
part of North America the. The first association
about those years is black people working in the
fields while they are singing spiritual song. The
point of the songs was to keep the moral and the
spirit despite the fact that they were slaves,
also they used the song like secret massages to
help the run away slaves.
As the years past by in your
mind you skip to the 20th century when
the black people got their freedom and immigrated
to the north to the industrial centers like
Chicago and N.Y. where they hoped to find a job
and a place to live in, but the government and
the society made this dream to a racial
discriminational projects Gatos life (more about
it at http://come.to/racism). "To live is to suffer, to
survive is to find meaning and to suffer", and
this means apparently to find a way to "express
themselves" in violent hostile reality, to do
so the young brothers gathered in gangs. And
naturally many conflicts appeared between the
gangs, to solve those conflicts without showing
or fighting, for this purpose they invented vary
popular game, the game was in two rounds: in the
first round there was B-boy composition (don't
know the word? http://www.rapdict.org) in second round each gang chose
the champion of cursing. The winner of that round
was that who cursed the opponent faster and
better, the judges were selected from a neutral
gang.
The concept rap was taken from
an F-word for cursing from the second round of
that game. MCs took rap and combined it with base
line. This is how the first rapping music was
created; afterwards there were added scratches
and other instruments to the base line. Quite
frankly this is rap music like we know it today.
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