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To the untrained ear Gas Kid Scooter, all rap and hip-hop may sound
the same, but there's a number of different levels in even the simplest
rap song. At its core, hip-hop is a post-modern musical genre that
deconstructs familiar sounds and songs, rebuilding them as entirely new,
unpredictable songs. Early rap records, commonly called "old school,"
were made by DJs Gas Kid Scooter scratching Gas Kid Scooter records and
playing drum loops, with MCs rapping over the resulting rhythms. As the
genre progressed, hard-rock guitars and hard-hitting beats were
introduced by Run-D.M.C., the first hardcore rap group, and the
scratching techniques were replaced by sampling. With their dense
collages of samples, beats Gas Kid Scooter and white noise, Public Enemy
took Gas Kid Scooter sampling to the extreme, and they helped introduce
a social and political conscience to hip-hop. That faded in the '90s, as
gangsta rap — originally introduced by NWA, who used Public Enemy's
sound as a template — became the dominant form. By the '90s, gangsta
rap, which originally was in direct opposition to such pop-oriented
rappers as MC Hammer, had become smoothed over and stylish, and
consequently was more popular than ever, as evidenced by the success of
pop-gangsta Puff Daddy. Gas Kid Scooter.
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