Hip Hop Stylistic Features

Created by: Jack Florentine
Created on: 12-05-13 16:00

Instrumentation

Vocals (usually male vocals), Turntables (usually used for scratching or layering over samples/ cutting vocals etc), samplers (drum machines), synthesisers, sometimes there may be live instruments, such as horns, electric guitar/bass- see 'The Roots'

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Technology and Production

Samplers (sometimes used for creating loops), Turntable scratching, Effects from synthesizers, two or more turntables to play instrumental grooves, often drum and bass breaks, while mixing in other other records, Deep bass (often from kick), Low-fi

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Perfromance and Arrangement

Melodic elements - usually short motifs, Riffs - often repetitive, Based mainly on repeating rhythmic patterns (loops), Unique timbres created by DJ scratching techniques, Harmony often has little importance - nothing complex, Use of beat boxing

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Main Artists

DJ Kool Herc - influential DJ on the early hip-hop scene, Sugarhill gang - Rappers Delight (1979), Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock (1982),

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Influences

Funk, Disco, Soul, R&B, Reggae (toasters on sound systems, dub), **** singing

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DJ Kool Herc - influential DJ on the early hip-hop scene, Sugarhill gang - Rappers Delight (1979), Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock (1982),

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Funk, Disco, Soul, R&B, Reggae (toasters on sound systems, dub), **** singing

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Hip Hop Stylistic Features