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rap music
[ rap myoo-zik ]
noun
- 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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