Hip Hop:
Hip Hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States in the 1970's. Some characteristics of this genre consists of a stylised music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. In addition, other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesised beats and sounds), and rhythmic beat-boxing. Hip hop's early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became widely available and affordable. Techniques such as scratching and beat matching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, a chanting vocal style, was used over the beats. Rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. Notable artists at the time include DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Fab Five Freddy, Marley Marl etc. In addition, the 1980's was marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles. Before this hip hop was confined to just the United States. However, during the 1980's, it began to spread to music scenes in dozens of countries, many of which mixed hip hop with local styles to create new subgenres. Moreover, the popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000's, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane. During the mid-2000's, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West.
Kendrick Lamar:
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born 17th June 1987 in Los Angeles) better known as just Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper and songwriter. He begun his musical career as a teenager under the name K-Dot, he released a mix-tape that garnered local attention and led to his signing with indie record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). He began to gain recognition in 2010, after his first retail release, "Overly Dedicated". The following year, Lamae independently released his first studio album, "Section.80", which included his debut single, "HiiiPoWeR". By that time, he had amassed a large Internet following and collaborated with several prominent artists in the hip hop industry, including The Game, Busta Rhymes and Snoop Dogg. He continued to gain success when his major label debut album, "good kid, m.A.A.d city", was released in 2012 by TDE, Aftermath and Interscope Records to critical success. It debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart and was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The record contained the top 40 hit singles "Swimming Pools (Drank)", "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" and "Poetic Justice". Kendrick went onto win his first Grammy Award for "i", the lead single from his critically acclaimed third album "To pimp a Butterfly" (2015). The album drew on free jazz, funk, soul, and spoken word, debuted to the top of the charts in the US and the UK. Then continued to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 58th ceremony. Moreover, he released his fourth album Damn in 2017; its lead single "Humble" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Kenrick has received a number of accolades over the course go his career, including seven Grammy Awards. He has been described as the number one "Hottest MC in the Game".
Nicki Minaj:
Onika Tanya Maraj was born in December 8th 1982, and is known professional as Nicki Minaj. She is a Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer, songwriter and model. Minaj earned public attention for her music after releasing three mix tapes between 2007 and 2009. She was signed to Young Money Entertainment since 2009. Minaj's first and second studio albums, Pink Friday (2010) and Pink Friday; Roman Reloaded (2012), both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and produced the successful singles "Super Bass" and Starships", respectively. In 2010, Minaj became the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously charting on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Her third studio album, The Pinkprint (2014), was preceded by its second single, "Anaconda", which peaked at number two on the Hot 100 and is her highest-charting single in the U.S to date. Minaj was the first female artist included on MTV's Annual Hottest Mc List, with a New York Times editor saying that some consider her to be "the most influential female rapper of all time". In addition, in 2016, Minaj was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Her rapping is distinctive for its fast flow and the use of alter egos and accents, primarily British cockney. Early in her career, Minaj was known for her colourful costumes and wigs, She has the most Billboard Hot 100 entries for a female artist in the charts history, while being ninth overall. Minaj has received ten Grammy nominations throughout her career, and has won six American Music Awards, eleven BET Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, and was the recipient of Billboard's Women in Music 2011 Rising Star award. She has also sold over 20 million singles as a lead artist, and 60 million singles as a featured artist worldwide.
Hip Hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States in the 1970's. Some characteristics of this genre consists of a stylised music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. In addition, other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesised beats and sounds), and rhythmic beat-boxing. Hip hop's early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became widely available and affordable. Techniques such as scratching and beat matching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, a chanting vocal style, was used over the beats. Rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. Notable artists at the time include DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Fab Five Freddy, Marley Marl etc. In addition, the 1980's was marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles. Before this hip hop was confined to just the United States. However, during the 1980's, it began to spread to music scenes in dozens of countries, many of which mixed hip hop with local styles to create new subgenres. Moreover, the popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000's, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane. During the mid-2000's, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West.
Kendrick Lamar:
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born 17th June 1987 in Los Angeles) better known as just Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper and songwriter. He begun his musical career as a teenager under the name K-Dot, he released a mix-tape that garnered local attention and led to his signing with indie record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). He began to gain recognition in 2010, after his first retail release, "Overly Dedicated". The following year, Lamae independently released his first studio album, "Section.80", which included his debut single, "HiiiPoWeR". By that time, he had amassed a large Internet following and collaborated with several prominent artists in the hip hop industry, including The Game, Busta Rhymes and Snoop Dogg. He continued to gain success when his major label debut album, "good kid, m.A.A.d city", was released in 2012 by TDE, Aftermath and Interscope Records to critical success. It debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart and was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The record contained the top 40 hit singles "Swimming Pools (Drank)", "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" and "Poetic Justice". Kendrick went onto win his first Grammy Award for "i", the lead single from his critically acclaimed third album "To pimp a Butterfly" (2015). The album drew on free jazz, funk, soul, and spoken word, debuted to the top of the charts in the US and the UK. Then continued to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 58th ceremony. Moreover, he released his fourth album Damn in 2017; its lead single "Humble" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Kenrick has received a number of accolades over the course go his career, including seven Grammy Awards. He has been described as the number one "Hottest MC in the Game".
Nicki Minaj:
Onika Tanya Maraj was born in December 8th 1982, and is known professional as Nicki Minaj. She is a Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer, songwriter and model. Minaj earned public attention for her music after releasing three mix tapes between 2007 and 2009. She was signed to Young Money Entertainment since 2009. Minaj's first and second studio albums, Pink Friday (2010) and Pink Friday; Roman Reloaded (2012), both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and produced the successful singles "Super Bass" and Starships", respectively. In 2010, Minaj became the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously charting on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Her third studio album, The Pinkprint (2014), was preceded by its second single, "Anaconda", which peaked at number two on the Hot 100 and is her highest-charting single in the U.S to date. Minaj was the first female artist included on MTV's Annual Hottest Mc List, with a New York Times editor saying that some consider her to be "the most influential female rapper of all time". In addition, in 2016, Minaj was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Her rapping is distinctive for its fast flow and the use of alter egos and accents, primarily British cockney. Early in her career, Minaj was known for her colourful costumes and wigs, She has the most Billboard Hot 100 entries for a female artist in the charts history, while being ninth overall. Minaj has received ten Grammy nominations throughout her career, and has won six American Music Awards, eleven BET Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, and was the recipient of Billboard's Women in Music 2011 Rising Star award. She has also sold over 20 million singles as a lead artist, and 60 million singles as a featured artist worldwide.
Eminem:
Marshall BrucE Mathers III was born October 17th, 1972, known professionally as Eminem is an American rapper,record producer, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000's in the United States. Throughout his career, he has had 10 number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. With US sales of 45.1 million albums and 42 million tracks as of June 2014, Eminem is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, the sixth best selling artist in the United Stated and the best-selling hip hop artist. globally, he has sold more than 172 million albums, this being one of the world's best-selling artists. Rolling Stones ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, calling him the King of Hip Hop. Moreover, after debut album Infinite (1996) and the Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP, which earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. His next two releases, 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002's The Eminem Show, were worldwide successes, with each being certified diamond in U.S. sales, and both winning Best Rap Album Grammy Awards- making Eminem the first artist to win the award for three consecutive LPs. They were followed by Encore in 2004, another critical and commercial success. Eminem went on hiatus after touring in 2005, releasing Relapse in 2009 and Recovery in 2010. Both won Grammy Awards and Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide, the second time he had the international best-selling album of the year (after The Eminem Show). Eminem's eighth album, 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, won two Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Album; it expanded his record for the most wins in that category and his Grammy total of 15.
Marshall BrucE Mathers III was born October 17th, 1972, known professionally as Eminem is an American rapper,record producer, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000's in the United States. Throughout his career, he has had 10 number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. With US sales of 45.1 million albums and 42 million tracks as of June 2014, Eminem is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, the sixth best selling artist in the United Stated and the best-selling hip hop artist. globally, he has sold more than 172 million albums, this being one of the world's best-selling artists. Rolling Stones ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, calling him the King of Hip Hop. Moreover, after debut album Infinite (1996) and the Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP, which earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. His next two releases, 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002's The Eminem Show, were worldwide successes, with each being certified diamond in U.S. sales, and both winning Best Rap Album Grammy Awards- making Eminem the first artist to win the award for three consecutive LPs. They were followed by Encore in 2004, another critical and commercial success. Eminem went on hiatus after touring in 2005, releasing Relapse in 2009 and Recovery in 2010. Both won Grammy Awards and Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide, the second time he had the international best-selling album of the year (after The Eminem Show). Eminem's eighth album, 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, won two Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Album; it expanded his record for the most wins in that category and his Grammy total of 15.
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