What does R& mean by singing B?

Dr. delay and black rap music

Rap is alienated.

There is a kind of music that originated from black Americans. At first, white people didn't like it, saying it wasn't music, let alone art, but soon, some white people began to like it. Since then, this undercurrent has spread rapidly in American society, and savvy businessmen feel that there is an opportunity. They are determined to find a "white singer with a sense of black music", which will definitely make a lot of money. They did so and succeeded as scheduled. After that, this kind of black music was rapidly alienated and many specious varieties appeared. These varieties began to make big profits around the world, and the audience forgot the true colors of this music ... After reading this, you will say: Isn't this the history of rock music and Elvis Presley? Wrong. I'm talking about rap

Singing originated in the black areas of new york in 1970s. In the first 10 years after its birth, the development of rap experienced many ups and downs. This musical form, which emphasizes lyrics, rhythm and melody, has always been confined to the black circle in big cities. Until 1986, the rap band Run-D.M..c and the white rock band Aerosmith collaborated on a rap song "Go this way", which began to attract the wide attention of white audiences. In the early 1990s, white rapper VanillaIce and pop rapper M.C.Hammer appeared in American music. They not only made many ordinary American listeners like rap, but also brought it all over the world, including China. But at this time, rap has been spiritually far away from its birthplace: the black areas of big cities, and rap has been alienated.

Even in this environment, real rap still exists, but it is prefixed by the media. Now people call it gang rap. The appearance of this name should be attributed to a Los Angeles band, whose name is very special, called N.W.A (Negro with Attitude). Two members are now the ancestors of rap. One of them is called "ice cube". Now they not only sing rap all the time, but also often appear in mainstream movies. Another person has been focusing on music creation, and he is the protagonist of this article: Dr. Derry.

The Stimulation of Safety —— The Social Foundation of Rap

In that year's Northwest Band, Dr. Derry was not the main role. However, his first album "The Chronic" after solo flight is recognized as the best representative of the so-called "West Coast Voice". This kind of rap with slow rhythm and mild tone (relative to the East Coast) has gradually become popular since Chronic, and has won a number of new stars such as Snoopy Doug. However, in the seven years after the publication of Chronic, Dr.Dre kept a low profile. He has only been the producer of several other albums. It was not until 1999 that his new album "200 1" quietly appeared on the counter. This 7-year-old record is not a hit on the billboard album chart, but it has remained stable in the top 20. But in fact, I can say without exaggeration that this record is the most popular among adult men aged 0/8 to 30 in the United States today. You can always hear Dr. Derry's unique voice, whether in the car whizzing by in the street or in the headphones worn by young people who dye their hair in the street. Before commenting on this record, I must first talk about the characteristics of "gang rap". First, let's talk about the language it uses. One of the main reasons why many people hate rap is that singers swear. But in fact, in black culture, many dirty words we think are not as dirty as you think.

Of course, I don't mean that these words become good words, but they are all commonly used words in street life, and Rap is just said intact. Don't people say that folk songs should come from life and be faithful to life? Rap has done this well, not only in the use of proverbs, but also in the content of rap. These contents may not be beautiful, but they are absolutely true. There are also many sentences that hate the police in Gangster Rap, which once attracted threatening letters from the FBI. However, after many incidents in which the police indiscriminately killed colored people, you have to admit that the opposition between the police and the people reflected in Gangster Rap has a deep social foundation in the United States.

For many white listeners, the life reflected by rap is actually very strange, and they just find a safe stimulus in rap. These listeners don't care about elegance at all! They live this dangerous street life in the stereo with relish and enjoy it. This is an important reason why rap is popular among American young men.

This album is not too noisy-the connotation of rap and its musicality

Maybe it's because the rap production cost is low. There are many rap albums on the market now, and quite a few of them are made in a rough way with a single rhythm, and the content is nothing more than swearing. Don't listen to such rap music. But Dr.Dre's "200 1" will definitely surprise those who have stereotypes about rap music. First of all, the lyrics in it are typical "gangster rap". The first song "Watchman" describes a dark and chaotic street world composed of gangsters and police to the audience as a narrator. The next song, Ghost, completely criticized unfaithful women from the standpoint of men. The next song, "Still D.R.E", changed the topic and mocked those who thought Dr.Dre was brilliant with the attitude of winner. Dr.Dre sang a lot of songs to clear his name in the album, which seems a bit redundant.

There is a song in the album called Message, which was sung by Dr. Derry to his murdered brother. The song is very sad and fatalistic, which makes people realize the violent tragedy that is constantly being staged behind the "gang rap" and pulls the "decent" young people who are addicted to gangs in the car back to the cruel real world from their dreams.

In the album, Dr.Dre invited a large number of rap artists to make guest appearances, including Snoopy Doug, Mary J. Blige, Xzibit, Krupp and Hittmann. Eminem, a newly rich white rapper, deserves special mention. He was hand-picked by Dr. Dre, and like Elvis Presley, he was a "white man with a sense of black music". But there is a big difference between the two. I don't think I have ever heard Elvis Presley say a word of thanks to the black doyen after he imitated the black rhythm and blues music, but now Eminem always mentions Dr.Dre in his songs, which shows his infinite respect for the teacher. Times are different, so is black and white.

To be honest, the lyrics in this album are not the best, so the main reason why I strongly recommend it to you here is its music. The rhythm of most songs in the album is recorded neatly, which makes people feel no noise at all. Like other pop music records today, almost all the songs in the album use a lot of sampling techniques, but the mixer properly controls the sampled sound at a very small level so as not to affect the timbre of the main instrument. All this is to highlight the human voice and let the audience understand the singer's singing very clearly. In fact, the singing method of rap is very particular. A good rapper can always keep his own unique pronunciation and rhythm while enunciating clearly. I remember listening to this album for the first time, which is more understandable than listening to Lao Cui's Time Night for the first time! I don't know if Cui Jian really didn't want people to hear him clearly, or if there was something wrong with the production.

If you still think rap has no melody, this album will surprise you. Almost all the songs in it have beautiful melodies, or more precisely, a short period of beautiful motives repeated over and over again. Most of these motivations are played by keyboards or guitars. In order to make the whole music look clean, most instrumental music performances have no chords, only single notes. Saying that they are melodious is by no means a tired tune of popular love songs, but an indescribable coolness. Camara Kambon, who is in charge of the music part of the album, won the Amy Award. He is a great contributor to the success of this record. The keyboard he co-managed with Scott stouch and the guitar played by Sean Cruise won the favor of many non-rap fans.

It is worth mentioning that this record didn't steal other people's melodies like many rap records (such as vanilla ice, which was famous earlier, and Fugees, which was popular a few years ago). All the music in the whole record is original. The sword that Dr. Dre grinded in the past seven years has really put a lot of effort into it.

Cool Black Angel-Rap Masculinity In order to promote this record, Dr.Dre launched a grand national tour called "Up in Smoke Tour" this summer. I went to San Diego to listen to their performance, which was also the first stop of the tour. It was Thursday night, and the amphitheater was packed, with more than 20,000 people present. To my surprise, most of the people who went to the concert were white, and at least one third of them were women. The audience almost listened to the whole concert standing, and many people could sing along with the singer, turning the whole theater into a huge karaoke box.

The acoustics of the concert are excellent, and the sound is very powerful, but it is not the kind of violent distortion. The concert also mobilized a lot of advanced audio-visual technology, which surprised those who thought that the live performance of rap music was not as good as the studio version. The lineup of this tour can be described as rap all-stars, including Dr.Dre, Snoop Dogg, ice cube and WarrenG. Kuruppu, Xzibit, Eminem and nate dogg. Among them, the scene in which ice cube appeared alone was particularly interesting. In the Overture to Carmena Blana composed by carl orff, he appeared in a cupboard hanging from the ceiling, dressed in white, like a huge black angel. His singing style is contrary to Dr.Dre's, intense and vigorous, and it is easy to arouse the enthusiasm of the audience when performing live. In contrast, I have to admit that Dr.Dre's music is more suitable for listening in the car. If you have a good car stereo, you will find it-to paraphrase the spoken language of young people of generation Y-cool!

American black culture has been influencing the mainstream culture, but I can't think of any other period in history when black culture has dominated the value orientation of American youth so widely. When young people change their greetings from "What 'sup", it becomes "what's wrong?" At that time, the degree of "blackening" in their hearts can be imagined. European and American music fans in China, especially music critics, should pay due attention to black rap music. Aside from prejudice, you will find a lot of interesting music in it. It may not be as "thoughtful" as alternative music, but at least it is more masculine than the popular electronic dance music that is full of psychedelic taste but mostly unintelligible. If you don't believe me, just listen to Dr. Dray.

Grammy awards were awarded, and the list of major awards came out.

Best male rapper: Eminem

Best rap album: Marshall Mathers LP/ Eminem

Best rap solo performance: LimShady/Eminem

Best rap group: Dr. Drefeaturing Geminim

Eminem is a good winner, and Grammy will play two cities first.

Eminem, a swearing rapper, got off to a good start at today's Grammy Awards ceremony. He first went to two cities and won two awards, the best rapper and the best rapper.

His "TheRealSlimShady" brought him the best rapper award. This song comes from his controversial album TheMarshallMathersLP.

Fans call it a wonderful collection of poems, while those who hate him say it is full of hatred for women.

And his second prize was won with his teacher and rapper Dr.Dre, who sang "Fuck Dre". At the same time, Dr.Dre also won the best producer of the year in the non-classic category. Eminem will also compete with many experts for the best album of the year and the best rap album.

Changes of R & ampb and Hip-hop

R & Today, B and Hip-Hop have become fashionable. Many mainstream singers are playing these two styles of music, whether abroad, Hong Kong, Taiwan or even at home.

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Let's start with hip-hop This kind of music rhythm is directly aimed at and suitable for hip hop, which is easy to form a visual impact. Nowadays, the success of "Korean Wave" depends to a great extent on the dance arranged by Hip-Hop, while the dance steps of NEW SCHOOL are further interpreted by the rhythm of OLD SCHOOL, which is novel, exciting and provocative. Korean band H.O.T performed this kind of music well on the stage. However, compared with the United States, the birthplace of hip-hop music, due to the differences in geography, history, nationality and culture, bands like H.O.T do not have too many black dance colors, and they also avoid being influenced by too many old disadvantages of rap music. Therefore, Asian hip-hop music is unique, different from American new york style and LA style.

When it comes to American-style hip-hop music, we must feel it through hearing, not vision. Because in the evolution of Hip-Hop in the United States, dance changes with the change of music, and the development from the old school to the new school is largely caused by the change of rhythm, which may be the biggest difference between Hip-Hop music and beautiful women. To talk about hip-hop music, we must go back to the rap era of Dr.Dre.

Hip hop music is developed from rap music. Rap is a kind of music with great impact and controversy, and its lyrics are distorted and chaotic, full of violence and incitement. The albums "Strange Outta Compton" and "The slim shady" represented by the "black and white villains" such as Dr.Dre and Eminem can well reflect the dark and reactionary thoughts of rap music. By the time rap music developed to the era of rap master 2PAC, rap gradually became artistic, with more cultural elements in its content. 2PAC rap songs have added some soft rock elements. Although the album "Until the End of Time" is poorly produced and the mixing is noisy, you can still hear the faint staccato of strings and the discussion about sexual rights in the content. With the further evolution, this music form, which is regarded as an alternative music by orthodox music, is regarded as street garbage culture by music guardians of mainstream society because it is too maverick and abrupt, and because it can have a huge spiritual impact on young people. Therefore, in the era of Hip-Hop, it is impossible to make a moderate compromise in terms of content and form. Many other musical elements have been incorporated into the music form, and the vocabulary of frontal attack in the song content has dropped sharply.

However, here, I don't want to elaborate too much on the compromise of hip-hop in music. Instead, I want to introduce DMX, a hard-core rapper with rebellious style.

As a new force in the field of rap, DMX is used to swearing lyrics, unruly and likes to make trouble. From DMX's music, we can feel the style of hip-hop music returning to the primitive and chaotic street rap era.

DMX reveals a sensitive, angry and lonely feeling from his hoarse and rough voice. For example, the song "Sometimes" is purely plain, vulgar and barbaric, but the artistic conception is true and the expression is true. "School Street" takes the church bells such as gunshots and alarm bells as the music background, implying death and crime, and the explosion at the end of the song has a moving sound effect. The song BLOODINE ANTHEM, which can best embody the hardcore style of DMX, stands out in the strong and blunt noise of electric guitar, embellished with vulgar and vicious words, and the hardcore style is prominent.

In fact, the sound of DMX is not a lawless extreme compared with death metal and ferrous metal. His music is based on a negative consciousness, and it is a sound art that combines anarchist barbarism with setbacks in real life. It has a rough and intuitive critical spirit. This kind of voice not only tries to subvert the value system of traditional aesthetics and shake the position of orthodox music, but also tries to resist the traditional values of society with the dormitory view of mechanical solipsism. However, because hip-hop music itself has not built a complete value system, the sound of DMX can only represent other bright colors in hip-hop music, but not all of them.

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Then talk about R &；; B, it appeared earlier than Hip-Hop and evolved from the early Bruce. Compared with Hip-Hop, it is more musical and melodic in style. R & ampb simplifies the composition of pure blues instruments and pays more attention to the singer's singing level. Early research and development; There are many excellent singers, such as bill haley. But up to now, R& ampb has been compared with the early R&; B it's very different. Just like Craig Edgeworth Beresford David, the youngest R & British singer, his R & B There are many garage elements in the music, and more elements of rock, jazz and gospel are blended. In the album "Born to do this", the "two-step/garage" style is created. For those who are used to listening to the traditional R&; B music, his songs are undoubtedly fresh, warm and soft, with strong youthful flavor and vitality, but musically they come from orthodox R&B, his R&; B (including most of today's research and development; B music), has deviated from the early R &；; B frame. So I think in today's R&; B artists hear early r&; B the style of music is already difficult. However, the audience in China is relatively lucky, because some works in the album of Jay Chou, a singer from Hong Kong and Taiwan, are of early style, such as William Castle and Nunchaku, and a few works are of hip-hop style, such as Dad, I'm Back. Although I can't agree with your singing, it's still worth listening to in terms of style.

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About r &；; The difference between B and Hip-Hop in musical style is not clear, because there are too many musical elements interwoven between them to be absolutely distinguished. From the perspective of music history, their development and evolution all have the color of black culture. Although the forms of expression are different, the early ideological connotation is similar. They evolved from a variety of musical elements, and these musical elements influenced each other in the evolution. Therefore, R&; Up to now, b and Hip-Hop still have a lot in common. If a distinction must be added, it can only be briefly summarized as follows:

R & ampb sings most of the time, while Hip-Hop talks and dances most of the time.

Nate dogg, a new hip-hop force.

Let a number of heavyweight artists in R & industry invite guest Jia Bin to cooperate with them privately, and win the new solo album of R&:Nate Dog of Billboard magazine, formerly known as NathanielHale, ranking third in the B/Hip-Hop album list. Judging from his stage name, people think that he should be a member of the "SnoopDoggyDog" family. ?

In fact, he is not a direct relative, but there is still a little origin! Shortly after Nate met his friends WarrenG and SnoopDogg, who grew up with him in his hometown of LongBeach, the three of them hit it off because of their musical ideas. Each of them has strong personal characteristics and rich musical styles, and has quickly become the most popular and important new group in the local area.

It was also because WarrenG, 2 13 was awarded by NWA member Dr.Dre (Dr. Dre), which was well-known at that time and was debated by all walks of life in the music world. When Eazy-E, IceCube, MCRen, etc. flew solo in NWA, Dr. Derry and his death road record company constantly expressed their intention to cooperate with them.

Just when Dr.Dre officially left the team to release the first classic masterpiece "TheChronic", NateDogg was a dazzling guest invited by Dr.Dre in the album, and his good brother WarrenG also had his friendship in the first best-selling song "Adjust". At this time, NateDogg has been invited by many heavyweight artists in the rap world to cooperate with him privately.

Famous works such as the early Snoop Dog Ain 'tnofun, 2 PAC Skandalouz, Dopp Pound Let's Splash the House, and more than 50 recent masterpieces such as Mariah Carey《IfWe, Pastime's Can't tdenyit, Brian McKnigh's Don't tknowheretoStart, etc. , has been wandering in independent and mainstream record companies to release their masterpieces. NateDogg, who is quite maverick and rich in music patterns, has finally released a new masterpiece, Music &; Me.

This album is a portrayal of NateDogg's daily life and an endless source of music, which is also his album title "Music &; My source! Because NateDogg is usually "charitable" in many artists' works, when friends in the music industry heard that Nate was going to attack again, they gathered gangs from all over the world to help Nate cross the knife. The album production of Golden Group includes Dr.Dre (Eminem, Eve. MaryJ.Blige), Battlecat(E-40, BrianBcKnight, FaithEvans), JermaineDupri (Aaliyah, MariahCarey, Destiny'sChild) and Blink(AngieMartinez, U-Got).

This genre reveals the fierce power of West Coast rap, and is integrated with the tonality of G-Funk (broken rap with simple synthesis effect, slow rhythm, low voice and occasional female chorus) initiated by Dr.Dre in the early 1990s. The first extremely beautiful single "IGotLove" was recorded at a premium. B A light and melodious version with a little soul and a hip-hop rap version with Pastime (a pastime) and Kurupt, a member of the original TheDoggPound orchestra!

“KeepItG。 A.N.G.S.T.A "has R&; Lil'Mo (Jasmine) and Dr.Dre, the talented women in the B world, followed Eminem's West Bank gang rap expert Qi Li (Xzibit (Xzibit); JermaineDupri, who is also a producer, also made a special contribution to the single "Your Woman hasjustbeensight"; Recently, Ludacris, a hot rookie in the rap world and an entrepreneurial singer of Scarface gangster factory version of DefJamSouth, also showed his superb rap skills in the single real pipper. Of course, his mentor Dr.Dre and his good brother SnoopDogg also performed well in Your Wife and DittyDumDittyDoo.

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1.IGotLove

2. Secret

3.KeepItG a n g s t a feature lil ' moandxzibit

4.IPledgeAllegiance (introduction)

5.iplegeallegiancefeaturing pharoahemanch

6. Your woman has just been seen

7. Your wife is complaining about Dr. Dre

8. You can't live without characteristics

9. Another short story

10. Concrete street

1 1.RealPimpfeaturingLudacris