R&B and Hip-Hop have developed to this day and have become fashionable. Whether abroad, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or even China, many mainstream singers are playing these two styles of music.

Let’s talk about Hip-Hop first. This kind of music rhythm is directly aimed at and suitable for hip-hop, and it can easily create a visual impact. The success of today's "Korean Wave" relies to a large extent on the dance choreographed by Hip-Hop melodies, and further uses the rhythm of OLD SCHOOL to interpret the dance steps of NEW SCHOOL, which is novel, exciting, and quite provocative. The Korean band H.O.T perfectly expresses this kind of music on stage. However, compared to the United States, the birthplace of Hip-Hop music, due to differences in geography, history, ethnicity, and culture, bands like H.O.T do not have too many black dance colors, and they also avoid too many old disadvantages of RAP music. Influence. Therefore, Asian Hip-Hop music has a unique style, which is different from the American NEW YORK style and L.A. style.

When it comes to American Hip-Hop music, it must be experienced from the auditory rather than the visual perspective. Because in the evolution of American Hip-Hop, dance changes with the change of music. The development from OLD SCHOOL to NEW SCHOOL is largely due to the change of rhythm. This may be the reason why Hip-Hop music changes. , the biggest difference between beauty. And when it comes to Hip-Hop music, we have to go back to Dr. Dre’s RAP era.

Hip-Hop is developed from RAP music. The music of RAP is extremely impactful and the performance method is extremely controversial. The lyrics are also twisted and chaotic, full of violence and incitement. The albums "Strange Outta Compton" and "The Slim Shady" represented by the "black and white duo" of Dr. Dre and Eminem can well reflect the dark and reactionary nature of RAP music.

When RAP music has developed into the era of 2PAC, the rap master, RAP is gradually becoming artistic, and more cultural elements have appeared in the content. 2PAC rap songs have added some soft rock elements. , although albums like "Until the end of time" were poorly produced and the mix was noisy, you can still hear the faint staccato of the strings and the discussion of sexual rights in the content. With further evolution, this music form, which is regarded as an outlier in the music industry by orthodox music, is regarded as too unique and abrupt by the music defenders of mainstream society because it can have a huge spiritual impact on young people. For the unfashionable street trash culture. Therefore, in the Hip-Hop era, it is no longer possible to make a moderate compromise in both content and form. The music form incorporates many other musical elements, and the content of the songs contains sharply reduced vocabulary for frontal attacks.

But here, I don’t want to elaborate too much on Hip-Hop’s musical compromises. Instead, I want to introduce DMX, a hardcore rapper with a rebellious style. As a new force in the rap world, DMX is accustomed to swearing in lyrics, has an unruly personality, and likes to cause trouble. From DMX's music, you can feel that he has returned to the original chaotic street rap era of Hip-Hop music.

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DMX reveals a sensitive, angry and lonely emotional expression from his hoarse and rough voice. For example, the song "SOMETIMES" is pure talk, vulgar and brutal, but the emotions are real and the expressions are sincere. "SCHOOL STREET" uses gunshots and church bells such as alarm bells as the musical background, implying death and crime. The explosion at the end of the song has a touching sound effect. The song "BLOODINE ANTHEM" that best reflects DMX's hardcore style. Amidst the strong and harsh noise of the electric guitar, DMX's voice is set off to be sharp and abrupt, embellished with vulgar, vicious and outspoken words, highlighting the hardcore style. .

In fact, compared to death metal and black metal, DMX’s voice is not a lawless sound extreme.

His music is structured on a negative consciousness. It is a sound art that combines anarchic barbarism and frustration with real life. It has a rough and intuitive critical spirit. This kind of sound not only attempts to subvert the value system of traditional aesthetics And shake the status of orthodox music, and want to use the mechanical solipsism dormitory view to resist the traditional values ??of society. However, since Hip-Hop music itself has not constructed a complete value system, DMX's sound can only express the alternative bright colors of Hip-Hop music, but cannot represent all of it.

Let’s talk about R&B. It appeared earlier than Hip-Hop and evolved from early blues. Its style is more musical and melodic than Hip-Hop. R&B simplifies the instrumental components of pure blues and pays more attention to the singer's singing level. There were many outstanding singers in early R&B, such as Bill Haley. However, the development of R&B to the present is very different from the early R&B. For example, British singer Craig Daivid, who is known as the "youngest R&B music poet", has more garage elements in his R&B music, and incorporates more rock, JAZZ, and gospel elements. In the album "BORN TO DO IT" Initiated the "two-step/garage" genre. For those who are accustomed to listening to traditional R&B music, his songs are undoubtedly fresh and touching, warm and soft, and have a strong youthful atmosphere and vitality. However, looking at the orthodox R&B music form, his R&B (including most of today's R&B music ), have all deviated from the early R&B framework. Therefore, it is difficult to hear the style of early R&B music among today's R&B artists. However, Chinese-speaking listeners are relatively lucky, because in the album of Hong Kong and Taiwan singer Jay Chou, some works are in the early style, such as "William's Castle", "Nunchaku", etc., and a few works are Hip-Hop, such as "Dad" I'm back". Although I disagree with the singing skills, in terms of style, it is still worth listening to.

The difference in music styles between R&B and Hip-Hop is because there are so many musical elements intertwined between them that it is impossible to make an absolute distinction. From the perspective of music history, their development and evolution all have the color of black bottom culture. Although they are different in expression, they are similar in early ideological connotation. Moreover, they have evolved from a variety of musical elements, and these musical elements have influenced each other during the evolution. Therefore, R&B and Hip-Hop still have a lot of uniqueness in their development to this day. If we must make a distinction, we can only make a simple summary: R&B is mostly about singing, and Hip-Hop is mostly about talking and dancing (dancing).