While three-letter acronyms at the beginning of rappers' names have become a staple in hip-hop for the past decade or so, the meaning behind NLE Choppa's name is a bit more romantic than most. When DDG asked Choppa about the origins of his rap name during a livestream in 2022, the ...
The city of Chicago was set ablaze with the release of Chief Keef’s "I Don’t Like." The Young Chop-produced track popularized the city’s drill sound, which established a new influx of talent bred from the Windy City and a subgenre later adapted by UK and New York rappers likeFivio...
Most of the first generation of recorded rappers were, Bill Adler remembers, influenced visually by eitherMichael JacksonorGeorge ClintonandParliament-Funkadelic. Run-DMC was different. "Their fashion sense was very street oriented,"Adler explains."And that was something that emanated from Jam Master ...
But the majority of the money most singers make will come from a combination of live performance fees, merchandise sales (t-shirts, vinyl, etc), and licensing their music to film/tv/ad companies. How Do Singers and Rappers Become Famous? Becoming famous is something that either happens ...
rappers, a guy who Kanye West would share festival bills with and later invite to the studio, to work onThe Life of Pablo.A guy who then got the opportunity to turn down every major record label in existence, which is what he did and continues to do.Acid Rap,as in acid jazz, but ...
rappers and their DJs; reggae sound systems also use a skilled turntable DJ who plays the music while an MC talks over it. Among the hip-hoppers who grew up listening to reggae music through their parents’ culture, then put it into their new US environment, are KRS-One, Bushwick Bill,...
How did “Gimme Brain” come about, and how did you get Wayne and Ross on there? I had a record back in the day called “Can a Drummer Get Some” that has Swizz Beatz, Game, Rick Ross and Wayne all featured. I toured with Wayne and Rick Ross on the I Am Music Tour, and then...
Here are a few techniques that were popularized by rappers (and no, these aren’t the official names of the techniques, and yea there’s a lot more ways to implement wordplay than these, but chill): The Pause + Punch: Describing something with a short pause after, followed by an unexpec...
“A lot of rappers and entertainers like to think of themselves as sneakerheads, but Travis Scott is a rare breed with a deep appreciation of the culture,” says Wu. “He often brings back older, hyped sneakers which helps educate new heads and remind the old heads. His love and respect...
The way things are spelled, you still see people use Vs and Xs in their names, because that was part of our roots, and we still use it to this day. Even now with rappers like Scarlxrd or X [XXXTentacion], even Travis Scott, you see it. But there were a bunch of tapes from ...