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- Dictionaryrap/rap/
verb
- 1. strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention: "he stood up and rapped the table" Similar
- 2. perform rap music: "he raps under the name of Mr T"
noun
- 1. a quick, sharp knock or blow: "there was a confident rap at the door" Similar
- 2. a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing: "the label specializes in rap and modern soul"
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The meaning of RAP is a sharp blow or knock. How to use rap in a sentence. a sharp blow or knock; a sharp rebuke or criticism; a negative and often undeserved reputation or charge —often used with bum or bad…
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [1] emceeing [2] or MCing [2] [3]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular ". [4] It is usually performed over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. [4]
RAP definition: 1. a type of popular music with a strong rhythm in which the words are spoken, not sung: 2. a…. Learn more.
May 29, 2024 · Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (’rapped’) to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling, is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying, graffiti painting, and break dancing.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A form of pop music characterized by spoken or chanted rhymed lyrics, with a syncopated, repetitive accompaniment. Rap music originated in the second half of the twentieth century in black urban communities. ( See also hip-hop.)
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from African Americans, with notable contributions from Latino and Caribbean immigrants.
Rap music definition: a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban Black performers in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
