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Historically, rap music comes from hip-hop culture. The roots of rap music trace back to the Jamaican ska era of the mid-60s. MCs rapping over party music made its way to New York a decade later, thanks to DJ Kool Herc, a man many crown the "Father of Hip Hop." Kool Herc emigrated from Jamaica to New York in 1967 and helped give birth to the hip-hop culture that would continue to thrive and spread. The Hip Hop Network notes that while the Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 "Rapper's Delight" was the first breakthrough rap hit, it emerged from a "an inner-city phenomenon centering on DJs and including equal
proportions of break dancing, MCing, and graffiti art." More recently, "rap" has been used to describe the aggressive, mass-market produced music of Nas or Eminem. But, as one online encyclopedia points out, "Not all music that has rapping in it, however, is actually rap music, and not all hip-hop music has rapping in it." Artists like Jurassic 5 and De La
Soul typify hip-hop music, which is generally more multi-instrumented and less in-your-face. Rap and hip-hop music is now a huge industry, and it has the diversity of a huge industry. There's Christian rap, Latin rap, southern rap. Check out the Rap and Hip-Hop category in the Yahoo! Directory for more resources, including Davy D's Hip Hop Corner.
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