What is rap?

Rap refers to musical performances, and RAP is both rap music. Rap music is widely spread all over the world.

Rap music is a folk art form of storytelling, which is also known as "music of music" after the founding of the country in 1949. Rap music has distinctive characteristics of oriental art, is a unique folk art of the Chinese nation, it is a set of literature, music, performance of the trinity of the integrated art form. It is a comprehensive art form integrating literature, music and performance. It is a combination of rhyme, narrative and endorsement in style; a combination of story-telling and character simulation in performance (artists call it "jumping in and out" and "one person with many roles"); and music highlighting the narrativity with unique "language-type melody", which is a unique form of folk art. Musically, it emphasizes narrative and has a unique "language-type melody", and is one of the folk performing art forms with the closest combination of folk music and language, and the most popular. The characteristics of rap music can be reflected in the comparison of folk songs and opera music, which are closely related to it. The outstanding features of rap and folk songs are: the lyricism of folk songs and the narrative nature of rap. Folk songs are not performing arts from the point of view of the conditions under which they are created, but are often the expression of the singer's own emotions, the self-expression of joy, anger, sadness and happiness, or sung by laborers in the course of their work for the purpose of coordinating their movements, encouraging their energy, and alleviating their fatigue. Therefore, most of the folk songs are relatively short in length, and the lyrics are often concise and poetic with the use of picaresque techniques. Music highlights the lyricism, as shown in the melody is generally more beautiful, rich in singing, fresh and lively tunes, with a strong flavor of life, the lyricism of folk songs is also shown in the lyrics to the tune are relatively free, less fixed program. Rap music is different from folk songs in that it is a form of storytelling and belongs to the folk performing arts, and most of the practitioners use it as a means of earning a living. Rap music is often longer than folk songs, scattered outside of the lyrics are not as simple and concise as folk songs, but a kind of descriptive spoken narrative, lyrics on the plot to be as detailed as possible, specific, time, place, characters and story development to be clearly explained. The white spoken lyrics require that the rap form should also highlight the narrative in the music. A large number of narrative singing, music and language combination is very tight, speaking of "according to the word line cavity", and most of the rap music in the types of independent "recitation" singing, such as the Beijing Rhythmic Drums in the "flat cavity ", Shandong qinshu in the "stacks board", Tianjin time tune in the "number of children" and so on. These recitative cantata **** with the same characteristics are: more words less cavity, generally no drag cavity, melodic is not strong, the performance seems to say like singing, the tone is almost language slightly sublimated, four slightly exaggerated. These chants are used for narrative, and can clearly explain the plot and show the characters. This chanting cantata has become a unique style of rap music cantata, focusing on the narrative of rap music.　The comparison between rap music and opera music can further reflect the characteristics of rap music. The obvious difference between the two lies in the narrative nature of rap and the dramatic nature of opera music, which is caused by the difference in their methods of expression. Rap music is a combination of narrative and endorsement to third-person narration-based performance method, that is, by one or two actors using music and language to simulate a variety of characters to narrate the story in the form of the actors to simulate the tone, posture and character of the characters in the book, the character's voice and smile accurately and vividly portrayed, engaged in the art of rapping the actors can not enter the role of the same as the actors of the opera, but only the The actors engaged in the art of rapping can not enter the role like opera actors, but can only be "jumping in and out", and a large number of story content of the rap to rely on the third-person narration, which forms the narrative characteristics of rap music. The performance method of opera art is that actors play roles, and the plot of the drama mainly relies on the characters' solo singing (white), antiphonal singing (white) and body movements. In order to shape the characters and express dramatic conflicts, the structure and program of opera music are more complex and rigorous than rap music. The outstanding features of rap music are reflected in the "recitative" singing and "verbal" melody, which are necessary for the narration of the story; the outstanding features of opera music are the dramatic "scattered, slow, medium, fast, scattered" style, and the "slow, fast, scattered" style, and the "slow, fast, scattered" style. The outstanding features of opera music are the dramatic "scattered, slow, medium, fast, scattered" set structure, "tightly playing and slow singing" rocking plate rhythm, and the grandiose cultural and military scene, which is the need for the music of opera to express the strong conflict and to shape the characters. Therefore, if we look at the outstanding features of folk songs, rap music and opera music in general, we can summarize them as the lyricism of folk songs, the narrative of raps and the drama of operas.　2. Modern Chinese rap Rap Rap culture has been introduced into China in just ten years, there have been successive batches of enthusiasts for the dissemination of rap culture has made indelible contributions to excellence, many people say that the Chinese people are not suitable for this kind of foreign music, but the facts have proved that the music has no boundaries, a good music can deepen the friendship between the people of the country, and even more so, can promote the global people's unity and fraternity and sublimate the sentiments.