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 ...
toasters, rappers, whatever you want to call them – talk over the top. The use of “versions” in reggae, where different cuts of a rhythm track are re-voiced, whether live in a dance or in the studio, was a direct inspiration to the use of a break by rappers and their DJs; reg...
We dropped in and saw giants of the court mingling with rappers, team owners and titans of industry over cocktails and canapes. Rich Paul had a full plate of business options, one from the president of Gatorade. Mike Del Pozzo: I want to be your first call. ...
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 ...
The first wave of ChatGPT music came from social media influencers. They were releasing meme videos of famous rappers usingUberDuckfor vocal impersonation. ChatGPT was only being used to generate lyrics at this stage. The technique was mostly for fun and parody - nobody mistook the music for...
This could include the younger generation of rappers or musical influences from overseas. His openness to transformation is one of the main reasons why Snoop Dogg has sustained such a long-running career. If you’re going through a creative rut, don’t be afraid to look outside yourself for...
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 ...
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...