We appreciate the UK’s produced its own share of wildly inventive rap artists – from Massive Attack to Tricky, via The Streets and Roots Manuva to Plan B and Dizzee Rascal, even the current grime scene stars such as Skepta – but they don’t sit easily inside ‘just’ a hip-hop capsule.Įven if you redux hip-hop to ‘two turntables and a microphone’ – no longer the case, anyway – you’ll find more variety than you could fathom.ĭeep funk, disco, jams and politics… love songs, violence, dadaism and party tricks. In fact, we’ve gone all North American here. And, of course, rappin’ Ed Sheeran is dead to us. Drake is the world’s primo music star right now and he raps. 1 Billboard rap single with Ice Ice Baby, but is that essential hip-hop? You be trippin’! (Ice’s story is actually pretty complex, but… sorry, time’s up!). Rap is now everywhere, but hip-hop is not. No raps? There are still hip-hop instrumentals – arguably the bedrock of much of today’s cut-and-paste pop. Rap is the rapping, hip-hop the wider culture of rappers, DJs, graffiti, breakdancing et al, as decreed by another NYC legend, Fab 5 Freddy. The rest is… here.Įven in broad-brush terms, ‘rap’ and ‘hip-hop’ aren’t interchangeable. Man-mountain Clive ‘Hercules’ Campbell, aka Kool Herc, was a Jamaican DJ already armed with a two-turntable setup, and he started mixing tracks and scratching live for the first time (publicly, at least), while his friend ‘Coke La Rock’ (no one remembers him!) rapped over the beats. And that, says legend, is when hip-hop was born. I n August 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the west Bronx, there was a party: 25c for ‘ladies’ and 50c for ‘fellas’.
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