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rap music

[ rap myoo-zik ]

noun

  1. a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban Black performers in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter intoned by a vocalist or vocalists:

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rap music1

First recorded in 1980–85

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