Kickin it Old Schooooool!

Rap
The original definition of the word: "Verb: Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, esp. in order to attract attention: "he stood up and rapped the table"
Defintion of rap music: "a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments"

It can sort of be seen why the word "rap" was used to describe this more recent genre of music. Due to it's audio sound, of quick words, and attention grabbing beats, it resembles the original definition of what a "rapping" was for.
Rap has technically been around for centuries, if you follow its roots all the way back through African-American History. This form of speaking words in a kind of poetry to a beat has been around for a long time but the popularity of it used in hip hop as it is today has only been recently popular compared to the many other types of music genres that have been around for decades and decades.

The type of rap or hip hop that I am focusing on in this blog, is Old School. Old School hip hop was a much simpler version, than what you hear today from artists such as Emininem who use plays on words and who use their music to talk about controversies and politics.
One of the most remembered Old School rapper was Melle Mel who was apart of the hip hop group Grand-Master Flash and The Furious Five. Here's a video clip of a popular old school rap song, "The Message"

Later on, the rap artist Ice Cube, used this back-up music but to a different rap, still pretty old school but you can already hear the difference in the style of saying the lyrics.

If you watch this video you can see how different rap was then, to now. Not even just the simpler sound but also what it is about. Today rap songs are just sung about sex, and girls, and strippers, at least this has somewhat about real life and not about being rich and famous. Compare the previous video to this music video of Ludacris and Pharrels "Money Maker" and you should be able to see how much rap and hip hop has changed.