The rhythms are influenced by the American rap scene, and the lyrics are often about crime, drugs, money, women and many criminal things.

Greg Broussard ( born August 31, 1963 in Los Angeles, California ), better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover, is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L. A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s.

Many Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, while since the beginning of the 1990s the hip hop / rap scene has developed a unique sound and indigenous style.

With the eventual commercial dominance of West Coast gangsta rap, particularly the emergence of the relaxed sounds of G-funk by the early nineties, the East Coast new school / golden age can be said to have ended, with hardcore rappers such as the Wu-Tang Clan and gangsta rappers such as Nas and The Notorious B. I. G coming to dominate the East Coast scene.

In the beginning it was the American rap artists who dominated the hip hop scene in France.

Even today French hip hop is still heavily influenced by the rap scene in the United States, particularly the gangster rap scene.

* Feature article exploring the French rap scene of 2006.

The issue of language choice has become a major influence in the Swiss hip hop scene: As author Pascale Hofmeier notes, the creation of " Mundartrap " ( dialect rap ) has enabled Switzerland to develop a unique scene that, due to the lingual choice, is immediately identifiable as a distinctly Swiss product.

The European Music Office's report on Music in Europe claimed that Switzerland's hip hop scene is " particularly innovative and advanced ", featuring Unik Records ( the first European indie rap label ).

But nationalism is not absent from the German rap scene ; on the contrary, there is an implicit ( and sometimes explicit ) conflict over national identity that finds expression, on the one hand, in charges that the attempt to form a ' German ' rap culture is inherently exclusionary, and on the other, in the growth of a counter-nationalism in the form of ethnic-Turkish or so-called ' Oriental hip hop '" ( 142 ) In " From Krauts with attitudes to Turks with attitudes: some aspects oh hip hop history in Germany ", written by Dietmar Eleflein, " Yet at the same time, the title Krauts with Attitude also played with a kind of non-dissident identification of a part of the West German hip-hop scene with its role models.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was an unofficial bridge between the uptown graffiti and early rap scene and the downtown art and punk music scenes.

A distinctive West Coast rap scene spawned the early 1990s G-funk sound, which paired gangsta rap lyrics with a thick and hazy sound, often from 1970s funk samples ; the best-known proponents were the rappers 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg.

It was his breakout to the national rap scene.

Along with Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, this album put Atlanta's rap scene on the map.

In 2005, the Houston rap scene got wide audience, and many Houston rappers started to get nation-wide and world-wide audience such as Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Chamillionaire, UGK, Pimp C, Bun B, Lil ' Flip, and Slim Thug.

Soon, they signed with BMG Ricordi and started to mix their rap with pop music, obtaining great success and popularity.

Chicano rap is a unique style of hip hop music which started with Kid Frost, who saw some mainstream exposure in the early 1990s.

For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

* The Color Changin ' Click, a rap group which was started by rapper Chamillionaire

Simmons and McDaniels started hanging around Two-Fifths Park in Hollis in late 1980, hoping to rap for the local DJs that performed and competed there, and the most popular one known to frequent the park was Mizell, then known as " Jazzy Jase ".

In 2001, Hip Hop music started to regain attention with nefret, who now is one of the most famous Turkish rapper with the name "" ceza "" He started the next generation of Turkish rap.

In 1998, he started an underground rap foundation named Kuvvetmira, which remains active today with members such as Kolera, Abluka Alarm and himself.

She started beat boxing for the hip-hop group Ladies Fresh and was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ King Gemini, who made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse.

During the late 1980s-early 1990s rap started to escalate all over Africa.

Hypnotize Minds is a record label ( originally named Prophet Entertainment ) started by the Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia.

At this point, the bands popularity began to soar as the band, especially Dee and Jay Jay started to talk ( rap ) to the audience about current topics of the day between songs.

As Romania had just overthrown its communist regime in a violent revolution, western goods such as bootleg recordings of rap albums had started to flood the country in the market liberalization process that had begun.

He started his music career as a member of the rap duo, Crooked Lettaz before going solo in 2000 with Them Firewater Boyz, Vol.

They started rapping in English and German with homemade beats, but later chose to rap solely in German.

Mr. II was stems from Songea in Southern Tanzania, started to rap in 1990, in his youth when he was still in school.

The beginnings or hip hop music / rap can be traced back to the Bronx, NY in the 1960s and 1970s where wall graffiti started to gain popularity with the prevalence of street gangs.

Coleman was born and raised in Harlem, New York, where he started his rap career with Three the Hard Way.

Slijngaard was a friend of Quadrophonia rapper Marvin D, and whilst attending one of their gigs he took a microphone and started to rap in order to hype up the unenthusiastic crowd.

Before he started acting, he belonged to a rap group called Wolfpack which he formed with his cousin in 1991.

Antonio Hardy ( born September 10, 1968 ) better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group the Juice Crew.

In 1981 a group called The Mean Machine released a 12 " single on Sugar Hill Records called " Disco Dream " which was the first rap record to emphasize Spanglish.

* The second rap act to appear on American Bandstand ( the Sugar Hill Gang appeared first on the program in 1981 )

A British hip hop scene emerged in the early 1980s, largely based on American hip hop music at parties and club nights, In this period some pop records dabbled with rap – such as Adam and the Ants ' " Ant Rap " ( 1981 ) LP, Wham's " Wham Rap ( Enjoy What You Do )" ( 1982 ) and Malcolm McLaren's " Buffalo Gals " ( 1982 ).

It was with The Treacherous Three in 1981 that Kool Moe Dee performed his freestyle onstage roast of old school party rapper Busy Bee Starski, a performance frequently cited as a pivotal moment in the development of the battle rap.

There were earlier pop records which dabbled with rap-such as Adam and the Ants ' " Ant Rap " from the 1981 album Prince Charming and Wham's " Wham Rap ( Enjoy What You Do )" ( Inner Vision, 1982 )-but these are often considered pop appropriations of US rap.

In 1981 DJ Flash was the first " white rapper " ever signed to a rap label " Rappers Rapp Disco Co ." Los Angeles, Ca.

In 1981 he helped launch WRKS-FM in New York as the first station to play rap music on a regular basis.

He was famously roasted by Kool Moe Dee at Harlem World in Manhattan, NY, December 1981, in one of the earliest documented rap battles.

Elastinen ( Elastic ) ( born Kimmo Ilpo Juhani Laiho in 1981 ) is a Finnish rap musician and also known as one of the founders and is the CEO of the Finnish independent rap label Rähinä Records.

Mr. Magic debuted in 1981 on WHBI-FM in New York City with the first exclusive rap radio show to be aired on a major station.

Debuting in 1981, the music video was the first rap video ever broadcast on MTV.

" Lovebug Starski, a Bronx DJ who put out a single called " The Positive Life " in 1981, and DJ Hollywood then began using the term when referring to this new disco rap music.

The new style influenced Harry, and Blondie's later hit single from 1981 " Rapture " became the first major single containing hip hop elements by a white group or artist to hit number one on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 — the song itself is usually considered new wave and fuses heavy pop music elements, but there is an extended rap by Harry near the end.