There is a reason why 90's boom-bap
hip hop sounds the way it does. Today
we're going to look at the theory behind
the music structure and why certain
eras of hip hop in particular 90's sound
different from any other time period of
the pop music and hopefully I'll give
you an understanding about how to make
the music and why the music sounds the
way it done but before we get to 90's boom
bap we're going to start with the
source and the beginning of the boom bap
sound which is the 80's and we'll start
smack dab in the middle of the eighties
this is where you can really get an
understanding of what boom bap is and
how it's changed over the time so
starting with the 80s the emphasis of
the beat was on the 1. So if we take a
4 bar loop or 4 bar sequence the
one is what synthesized in 80s boom bap
this idea of emphasizing the one that
comes from funk music beginning with
James Brown and extends further back to
early traditional African music but with
funk the one is emphasized so that is
the beat that gets the strongest accent
now this caused the MC who's rapping to
also accentuate the 1 and thus affected
how he (or she) flowed over an 80 and that beak
because while funk accentuated the 1 and
P-Funk really exaggerate the 1. 80s Boom
Bap put a nuclear bomb under the 1 so on
the one everything hit really hard the
MC punctuated his point on the 1 and
let's take a listen to how that actually
sounds with a typical 80s Boom Bap beat
so as you can see everything falls back
on the one the one sort of sets it
off and lets the other bars ride until
the one smacks again. All right so now
ninety there was a shift going on where
the one lost his power and the four
which should be a traditional snare him
became more of an accentuated again
changing the way that MC flowed over the
beat and that created a different bounce
a different feel to the music and change the
flow and that is what crystallized the
sound of 90's Boom Bap that typical
Premiere bounce that Pete Rock bounce.
that transition happened in the late 80's
rolling into the 90's. So when you're
talking about that classic nineties
hip-hop drum loop that's been
categorized as 90s hip-hop that's what
makes it feel that way it's accentuating
the 4 and subsequently the 2 making
the 4 hit harder than anything else
that is the theory behind why certain
era sound different and as we move on towards
different styles of hip-hop going into
the late 90s and everything else you'll
find that different parts of the beat
are more accentuated or even pairings of
the two where maybe the one in the three
or the one two three and four.
traditionally known as four on the floor
to defines a style of music and
ultimately the way MC blows over the beat.
This is the theory behind why things
sound the way they do and the
relationship between the vocalist and
the music that interaction causes styles
to be born causes eras have their own
style.
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