Unique Genre of Hip Hop Music Steadily Growing in Popularity

Hip hop is a popular genre in music, which is also known as rap. Specialty of this variety of music is its stylized rhythmic music. The music is usually accompanied by rapping. Rapping is a rhythmic as well as rhyming speech, which is chanted. The genre of music came into existence and attained maturity as a part of hip hop culture. Being an integral part of the said culture, hip hop music contains all the four elementary components of it, namely

·         MC-ing or rapping

·         DJ-ing or scratching

·         Break dancing and of course

·         Graffiti writing

 The terminologies, ‘hip hop’ and ‘rap’ are often used interchangeably by myriads of music lovers. However, it is relevant mentioning here that rapping is not an essential component for hip hop music. Rapping may or may not be present in a piece of music that belongs to the hip hop genre. This variety of music is unbelievably popular these days. Music lovers – cutting across age groups – love this musical genre like nothing else. In this ongoing age of the internet, the craze to download hip hop music free across the range of websites has further contributed to the popularity. As such, there are many dedicated online portals to cater to the specific chunk of music lovers.

The history of origin of the musical genre is quite interesting. Back in the 1970s, the fraternity of African American youths of New York used to organize block parties. These parties were extremely popular and were attended by hosts of people converging from distant places. Considering the popularity, the parties were organized in high frequency. At these social gatherings, DJs used to play percussive breaks of popular songs of the time. For this they used a pair of turntables to extend the breaks. Gradually, this version of music underwent modifications with passage of time and finally, hip hop music came into existence.

By the beginning of the 1980s, the range of music experienced landslide popularity across the United States. Gradually, it was taken abroad and in no time it own over the hearts of myriads of music lovers all over the world. This variation of music is extremely popular even to this day and time and its popularity seem to stand the test of time till the turn of eternity.