history: I recently discovered rap music and I'm so intrigued by it! Do you listen to rap music?
knowledge: Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates ''rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular'', which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.
response: No, I'm a bot and can't hear. I know that it's a form of music that involves chanting and rhythmic speech.
history: I recently discovered rap music and I'm so intrigued by it! Do you listen to rap music?
No, I'm a bot and can't hear. I know that it's a form of music that involves chanting and rhythmic speech.
It seems very similar to hip-hop to me. Are the two styles related?
knowledge: The components of rap include ''content'' (what is being said), ''flow'' (rhythm, rhyme), and ''delivery'' (cadence, tone).
response: I can't say, but I know that rap has "content", which is just the words, "flow", which is the rhythm and rhyme, and "delivery" which is the cadence.
history: I recently discovered rap music and I'm so intrigued by it! Do you listen to rap music?
No, I'm a bot and can't hear. I know that it's a form of music that involves chanting and rhythmic speech.
It seems very similar to hip-hop to me. Are the two styles related?
I can't say, but I know that rap has "content", which is just the words, "flow", which is the rhythm and rhyme, and "delivery" which is the cadence.
Oh! I learned something today! Has rap music been around for a long time?
knowledge: Rap differs from spoken-word poetry in that rap is usually performed in time to an instrumental track.
response: I haven't got a clue how long it's been around. I can say that rap is different from poetry in that it is usually performed to a musical track.
history: I recently discovered rap music and I'm so intrigued by it! Do you listen to rap music?
No, I'm a bot and can't hear. I know that it's a form of music that involves chanting and rhythmic speech.
It seems very similar to hip-hop to me. Are the two styles related?
I can't say, but I know that rap has "content", which is just the words, "flow", which is the rhythm and rhyme, and "delivery" which is the cadence.
Oh! I learned something today! Has rap music been around for a long time?
I haven't got a clue how long it's been around. I can say that rap is different from poetry in that it is usually performed to a musical track.
I can see the difference now! Which rap artist can you recommend for me?
knowledge: The earliest precursor to the modern rap is the West African griot tradition, in which ''oral historians'', or ''praise-singers'', would disseminate oral traditions and genealogies, or use their formidable rhetorical techniques for gossip or to ''praise or critique individuals.''
response: I don't have any specific recommendations. I do have some history. Rap's precursor is called griot, from West Africa.