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Hip hop production. Hip hop producer and rapper RZA in a music studio with two collaborators. Pictured in the foreground is a synthesizer keyboard and a number of vinyl records; both of these items are key tools that producers and DJs use to create hip hop beats. Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio.
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre [ 9 ] consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats ) that often accompanies ...
Roy Studmire, also known by his rap name, the International Show, first brought the program to Massachusetts inmates, but now it is helping these kids to find an avenue into rap music and production.
"Rap City," TV's longest-running hip-hop show will soon be introduced to a new audience with a 3-part docuseries on BET. Its creator Alvin Jones believes its success, like hip-hop, is because it ...
Lil Wayne. Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September 27, 1982), [ 2] known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. He is regarded as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation, [ 3] and one of the greatest rappers of all time. [ 4][ 5] Born and raised in New Orleans, he was discovered by hometown rapper Birdman in ...
Producer tags originated in the 1990s, when hip hop music was beginning to get significant mainstream attention, when it was commonplace for rappers to loudly announce their names over the instrumentals, which was known as ad-libbing. [3] [9] They were popularized by DJs such as Kool DJ Red Alert. [10]
Opium is an American record label and rap collective that was founded in 2019 by American rapper Playboi Carti. [1] The label, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, currently holds four acts all of whom are natives to the city; Playboi Carti himself, rappers Ken Carson and Destroy Lonely, and the duo Homixide Gang.