On The Rise Radio

A style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists. Typically, hip hop music consist of intensely rhythmic lyrical form making abundant use of techniques like assonance, alliteratio  ...