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The hip hop mixtape – cool music, cool sounds!
The idea of creating the mixtape goes way back into the 70’s, when adequate equipment became accessible to the wide public. Basically, it was a specific collection of tunes recorded onto a compact audio cassette. This could happen on a various scale. For example, a friend could make you a mixtape of songs from a particular genre or with a particular meaning; similarly, a certain person could, against copyright laws, commercialize mixtapes of various content within certain communities for quick
Hip hop and rap – one of the most popular today’s music genres
Everyone has listened, at least once, a hip hop song and, whether it is among your favorite genres or not, you cannot deny that hip hop and rap have a lot of fans. The fact that many hip hop artists are famous worldwide and their songs are in the top charts proves there are many hip hop listeners.
Hip hop and rap history – the start of a new era for music!
Many wonder where it all began. Whether they’re fans or just part-time admirers that find curiosity about hip hop and rap within them, the answer will inevitably be the same. Believe it or not, it all started at the dawn of the seventies. Long before anyone ever made a hip hop mixtape (because there wasn’t anything to make it with, for that matter), a fairly known Jamaican DJ moved to New York. Thus, he brought to this area the otherwise well established Jamaican (sometimes dancehall or reggae-a
The importance of the hip hop mixtape
There isn’t a hip hop fan in the world that doesn’t own some sort of a hip hop mixtape. Whether it’s homemade or professional, whether it’s got underground hip hop, gangsta rap, abstract hip hop or old school, there’s got to be at least one somewhere in there (if not dozens) and its presence alone confirms the existence of a tendency that has spanned over four decades and that doesn’t seem to decrease in popularity at all.
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