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This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
The Amen break is a drum break that has been widely sampled in popular music. It comes from the 1969 track " Amen, Brother " by the American soul group the Winstons, released as the B-side of the 1969 single "Color Him Father". The drum break lasts seven seconds and was performed by Gregory Coleman. With the rise of hip hop in the 1980s, the ...
A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for. This is generally differentiated from a one-hit wonder in that the artist usually has had success with other songs as well.
Hip hop culture is characterized by the key elements of rapping [b], DJing and turntablism, and breakdancing; [9] [10] other elements include graffiti, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip hop fashion. [11] [12] From hip hop culture emerged a new genre of popular music, hip hop music .
Old-school hip hop. Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre. It typically refers to the music created around 1979 to 1983, [1] as well as any hip hop that does not adhere to contemporary styles. [2]
Afrobeats. Afrobeats, not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing, [1] is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora [2] [3] that initially developed in Nigeria and Ghana in the early 2000s. Afrobeats is less of a toilet per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing majorly out of Nigeria.
Golden age of hip hop. New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat [1] is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary sound of R&B. Spearheaded by producers Teddy Riley, Bernard Belle, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, new jack swing was most popular from the late 1980s to early 1990s.