Hip Hop Research

The five main characteristics and elements that every Hip Hop track needs to have to be classed as Hip Hop are:

  • Melody
  • Drum Pattern
  • Rhythmic Melody 
  • Bassline
  • Synths
  • Doing / Scratching
  • Mcing / Rapping
  • Break Beat dancing
  • And Tagging / Grafitting 
The instruments most commonly used in Hip Hop is:

  • Hihats
  • Snares
  • A Roland 808 Drum Machine
  • Heavy Synth and sample Basslines
  • Synths
  • Apple Loops
  • Samples
  • Heavy use of  808 kick drums with a Sub bass underneath
My Hip Hop track has followed that instrumentation. 


The Hip Hop we know today first started at a house party thrown by DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) in The Bronx New York in the late 1970s.

New School Hip Hop Song: 2 Chainz - Proud ft. YG & Offset

Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nUW3nIOOOg

Tempo: 174 bpm (Harvard reference for the website where I found this information from;
 LLC, B. (2018). BPM for 2 Chainz - PROUD on songbpm. [online] Songbpm.com. Available at: https://songbpm.com/proud [Accessed 29 Oct. 2018]. )

Link to the website: LLC, B. (2018). BPM for 2 Chainz - PROUD on songbpm. [online] Songbpm.com. Available at: https://songbpm.com/proud [Accessed 29 Oct. 2018].

Instrumentation:

  •  Sample Synth melody
  • Roland 808 drum machine instruments; hihats, snares, Kick drums layered with a synth sub bass
  • Sample Beat Speaker power button sfx. 
  • Sampled synth baseline 
  • Rythmic melody loop
  • Ad-libs and noises made by the artists 
  • Autotune
  • Lead and featuring artists Vox
Structure: 
- Intro/line from chorus said
- Verse 1
- Chorus
- Verse 2
- Chorus
- Verse 3
- Chorus
- Outro
Old School Hip Hop Song: 2pac - Lil Homies

Tempo: 98 bpm (Harvard reference for the website where I found this information from;
 LLC, B. (2018). BPM for 2Pac - Lil' Homies on songbpm. [online] Songbpm.com. Available at: https://songbpm.com/lil-homies-2pac?q=lil%20homies%202pac [Accessed 29 Oct. 2018]. )


Link to the website: https://songbpm.com/lil-homies-2pac?q=lil%20homies%202pac

Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98c7cVjMdbc

Instrumentation:

  • West Coast whistle synth sample rhythmic melody
  • Bass guitar
  • Lead Vox
  • Vox adlibs
  • Roland 808 drum machine; Kick drums, hihats, snares, ride cymbal
  • Finger clicks sample
  • Piano sample melody
  • Backing and layered Vox

Structure:
- Intro
- Verse 1
- Chorus
- Verse 2
- Chorus
- Verse 3
- Chorus
- Outro

UK Hip Hop Song: Taze - Splendid

Tempo: 125bpm

Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCIA4wdReWk

Instrumentation: 
  • Sample synth Melody
  • Synth Bassline
  • either the Roland 808 drum machine or a UK Hip Hop Drum kit 
  • Hihats
  • Snares
  • Kicks
  • Lead Vox
  • Producer tag Vox
  • Lead Vox Ad-libs 
  • Sampled Triangle hits
  • Sample Bells
  • Snares with added effects
Structure:
- Intro
- Pre-chorus/Hook
- Verse 1 & Verse 2
- Chorus
- Hook
- Chorus/breakdown
- Buildup 
- Pre-chorus/hook
- Chorus and outro




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