Conventions of Rap/Hip Hop Music

The genre of rap began in the 1960's and it was considered one of the first genres to communicate with average American culture merging with up beat sounds.Some of the conventions of rap include:

-Casual clothing mainly dark clothes which represents the emotion conveyed in the lyrics

-Large amounts of close ups focusing mainly on the artist

-Unlike many other types of music rap relies on the lyrics and it normally conveys lots of emotion incomparision with other genres

-Unlike other genres rap normally has a main artist and then a ft artist who will normally sing the chorus





Kanye west

 

 

 

 

Lil Wayne

Jay-Z

Snoop Doog