Vlad Valov: Cult Rap Music festival. Rap and hip-hop concerts The idea of creating Rap Music
Rap is a direction of modern music, characterized by rhythmic recitatives, which are performed to music with heavy, powerful bass. In general, the definition of “rap” is considered not entirely correct in this context. After all, rap is actually the recitative itself, which is recited by an MC or rapper. And the music to which rap is performed can be called hip-hop. But hip-hop, as defined by fans of this trend, is a youth subculture that includes music, rap, graffiti, break dancing and films based on the black culture of the American ghetto. In general, hip-hop originated in the poorest neighborhoods of New York, where in the 70-80s. last century there were a large number of immigrants from Jamaica. It was they who brought the culture of DJing to the USA and made discos fashionable, where all the popular songs of that time were played and mixed in an unimaginable way. And black teenagers danced breakdance to them - a rather complex dance with intricate acrobatic elements. In addition, young people began to recite their recitatives accompanied by DJ samples, sometimes telling about the difficult life in poor neighborhoods. By the early 80s of the last century, hip-hop began to appear on some specialized radio stations in the United States. Also, many fans of this style now have the opportunity to purchase rap concert tickets.
Soon, hip-hop culture ceased to be a purely American phenomenon. Rap quickly spread to many countries in Europe and even Asia. In Russia, the first experiments with this style of music date back to the early 80s of the last century. But rap became popular in our country only in the early 90s with the appearance of the notorious performers Bogdan Totomir, Lika Star and the group “Malchishnik”. It was then that hundreds of Russian teenagers began to strive buy tickets to rap concerts. It is noteworthy that, despite the high popularity of this genre, in our country at that time it was almost impossible to hear compositions in the “rap” style on radio and television.
Currently, hip-hop culture is quite popular in many countries around the world. Today there are many styles of rap, such as gangsta rap or alternative rap. Also, each country has its own characteristics of performing this style of music. Therefore, now we can say that there is American, Russian, French and even Korean rap. By the way, if you also love this kind of music, then on our website you can easily strive order tickets for rap concerts famous domestic and western performers.
The past week gave the capital several concert performances, which left little food for thought, but simply a grocery department of a hypermarket without security.
The first desire is to clasp your head in your hands and squeal, “Ay-ay, what is it?!” Let's do it: "Ay-ay, what is such and such?!" And let’s try to understand what happened with the help of the authors of our site who attended the performances.
Igor Lisnik, PR-attache of Rap.Ru, went to the XZIBIT performance
“The X-Zibit concert that happened on Thursday in the capital’s Milk, of course, deserved more. Both in terms of sound and in terms of spectators. Still, barely 300 spectators at a concert of a performer of this level are not at all the audience that X-Zibit deserved.
However, let the promoters look for the reasons for such inattention; for us, what is much more annoying is the disorder with the sound, which pretty much blurred the groove of a rather powerful performance.
One of the RAP.RU columnists Denis Grigoriev (Karandash) wrote on Twitter that the sound was quiet and the voice/bit balance was not really adjusted. As a result, the voices of X-Zibit himself and his backing mc often drowned in low-frequency rhythms, and the low volume level created the feeling of more of an insinuating children's matinee than a show where one should pump up like those cars that X-Zibit had for several years showed it to the entire population of Russia on the MTV channel.
At the same time, we must pay tribute to the artist himself; there was no lightness in his attitude towards the viewer. X-Zibit moved and flirted with the listener as if he had a personal subwoofer installed in his ear instead of a monitor, and the ease with which he provoked the audience to rhythmically sway to the beat suggests that the entire orchestra readily shared him, even if somewhat diminished energy. The concert program was standard for a star who first appeared in Russia: fresh tracks + the obligatory “golden” hits, which for the majority of the public seemed to be as much of a mystery as the rest of X-Zibit’s work. Still, car programs are not the best medium for promoting an artist and his concert.”
P.S. A special spice for Xzibit’s arrival was part of his rider, in which a separate item was a virgin no older than 28 years old. We took a photo from Smokey Mo's Twitter, so questions for him. Also, contrary to the opinion circulated by the press that the rapper was very dissatisfied with the Moscow concert, on your Twitter Xzibit is dutiful, but quite enthusiastic about his visit to the capital, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg. Perhaps the rider’s last point was completed with five marks after all.
Nikolai Redkin witnessed the performance of the band RANDOM AX
The next day, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson and Sean Price arrived in Moscow, uniting in the group Random Ax. All Sean P fans who follow his Twitter are aware of the difficult temperament, quarrelsome nature and sharp tongue of this MC, and the Russian voyage gave many reasons for this MC to lose his temper.
“Those almost two hundred people who raised their hands in front of the stage saw one of the most coherent and expressive hip-hop concerts of the year. Black Milk, who actually cemented the entire union, was practically in the status of a hypeman. He stood modestly behind the control panel, pointedly ignoring the outstretched signed vinyls and only occasionally broke the silence with requests to make some noise for his colleagues Sean or Gilty.
But these two received all the audience’s love. The Black Lord Price, who, judging by the cries of the audience, was the most awaited here, shouted his name with pleasure and made royal passes with his hands, like Old Man Hottabych, stoned to death. Guilty conveyed the most charm and seemed the brightest of the trio (for me personally, the highlight of the entire concert was his performance of “Get Bitches” from his excellent debut album).
As a result, the feeling was very unusual: it seemed like seasoned black men were cursing and swaggering in front of you for an hour and a half, but something big, bright and very kind remained in your memory. It’s no wonder, oh it’s no wonder that the bearded man Guilty was wearing a T-shirt with a tricolor Rasta design!”
Nikolay liked the concert, but it should be noted that the release of the highlights of the show happened three and a half hours later than the time indicated on the posters. As well as the fact that the practice of endless warm-ups should already be left in the past. The caliper was of high quality, but unbearably long. And by the way, where is the promised Slovetsky?
As for Random Ax, their stay in Russia lasted two more days and, apparently, left an indelible black mark in the memory of the participants.
From the negative attitude towards blacks to the reluctance of the capital's organizers to pay fees, from the little-needed concert in Krasnodar to the music in clubs and, probably, something else unknown to us - everything was against Price and the company. And if he's not ready to come back here at any price, then Guilty puts it more elegantly: "This has to be a life-changing offer."
And yet, for those for whom the dirty laundry of the concert business and the artist’s personal life are not the main thing, we repeat: the concert in Moscow was not bad, although not too energetic.
Ruslan Munnibaev saw the Hip-Hop City Moscow festival
The quietest horror of the weekend took place in Luzhniki, where the large Hip-Hop City Moscow festival, the successor to Splash, took place.
DJ Premier, Fat Joe and two dozen Russian artists did not seduce the audience, so at Luzhniki, designed for several thousand, there were 100-150 people in the hall at the best hours, and at the worst there were not even fifty.
You can try to justify such a fiasco by the appropriate behavior of the Luzhniki security, who turned everyone away on the first day with the words “there will be no festival” (and that evening Spartak played with Lokomotiv at the Bolshoi Sports Arena). Or the lack of large-scale advertising, or Guf’s concert, or satiety with rap events over these half-autumn and much more.
But, most likely, the sum of all factors took place, multiplied by the death of the idea of a hip-hop festival as such.
With the Americans, everything turned out completely depressing. On the first day there were no performances at all, and DJ Premier spent the evening in the hotel and flew away. In the second, Fat Joe did not arrive in the USA due to snowfall. With all this, the sound, light and internal organization, for which Phlatline, one of the few worthy hip-hop promoters, were responsible, were at their best.
The speakers, who fully understood the situation, did not disappoint. The Frenchman Sefyu and his assistants were memorable, St1m brought a large “live” cast onto the stage, Misha Krupin, the imposing Smokey Mo and, of course, Master Cheff walked charmingly around the stage. This man was sending swag rays from the stage as if he was conquering a filled Wembley Stadium, and not a hundred cheerful people. Hip-Hop City Moscow will be remembered as an absurd event, but not in essence or idea, but because they simply didn’t come to it.
Does everything seem bad? No, it was this weekend and it was good. For example, those who ended up in the “Cult” club, where beatmaker Exile, who had already visited Russia before, worked his miracles. The hat turned out to be like Senka - a small club, a little-known artist with music that is interesting to few, but everything was on time, to the point and to the point. There should and will be such performances. And it’s right that no one advertised this event with loud slogans.
And, of course, the most successful event in the capital’s rap life is Guf’s concert, which was a complete success.
Significantly more than three thousand in the Arena club, without any special reason like a presentation, came to the next concert of the main Moscow rapper. He presented them with a cross-section of almost his entire creative path, constantly pulling on stage both obvious guests like Basta and Smokey, and simply interesting MCs: Murovya from the Belarusian group Slozhnie, Polumyagikh, Lyon with a new joint song.
It seems that this is the main trend of recent years: big artists of the top five gather large halls of people who wouldn’t even call themselves rappers, they just come to listen to Russian, let’s say, recitative songs.
And mediocre foreigners, and especially group events united by the idea of “hip-hop culture,” no longer arouse the interest they once had. Whether this is good or bad, we will have to live with it.
Rap- one of the trends in music, characterized by rhythmic recitative, which is performed by rappers - rap performers - to the beat (rhythmic music). Some researchers classify rap as a style of hip-hop music, but it cannot be said that rap is hip-hop; these concepts cannot be equivalent. Hip-hop music is a musical genre that arose from a mixture of rap music, pop music, rugby, soul, and other musical styles. Rap, as a genre, due to its incredible popularity today has penetrated into almost all musical movements. In pop music, famous performers often use recitative, creating duets with rappers - Maxim and Basta, Potap and Nastya Kamenskikh, Basta and Gorod 312, etc. Even, it would seem, rock is the complete opposite of rap, and it has ramifications of a pure genre - various fusions of rock with rap, that is, the so-called alternative trends in music. These are, first of all, rapcore and nu metal, alternative rock can also be considered among them. With club and electronic music, rap also forms various musical combinations - for example, drum and bass. In general, rap, one might say, turned the entire musical world upside down, synthesizing many alternative trends in music. What is curious: interest in rap culture practically does not fade, but on the contrary, it increases every year - this is evidenced by the emergence of various rap groups and individual performers who find their own style and stand out with some kind of zest or charisma. We explain this by the fact that rap is based on the spirit of freedom and is distinguished by originality. Even the lyrics of rap songs can tell a lot - about the style in which the author writes, what his character is, etc., etc. The texts touch on various topics: they reveal social and public problems, they can be filled with the spirit of protest, they can tell about finding oneself in this world, they can be lyrical, philosophical, talk about the bitter past, or rejection of some object or phenomenon. Rap- these are a kind of poems performed to music, and every rapper is a poet at heart, born in the modern age, and endlessly loving music and the thing that he is passionate about. Those who listen to rap have probably already noticed that its rhyming can be different. It’s not for nothing that we gave an analogy with poetry: after all, they have different sizes and rhythms (the stress can fall on even or odd syllables), and rap also has all this. But since rap is a musical movement, and its poems, combined with music, form the so-called recitative, we can say that, naturally, everything will be more complicated. It is complicated by the fact that the performance of recitative also has its own laws, which means that there are different types of rap recitation. For example, a recitative may have “square rhymes,” and its emotional performance is generally called a “punchline,” there is also a recitative in the form of an echo, etc. Rap, by the way, appeared not so long ago: in the 70s of the 20th century in New York in the black neighborhoods of the Bronx. Rap supposedly originated with Jamaican DJs, who used rhyming verses to entertain and excite audiences, and this rhyming was later taken up by African-Americans who expressed themselves by writing rap lyrics. At first, rap music was perceived as the music of gangsters, but this stereotype was soon debunked when rap became widespread. By the 80s, the first rap artists appeared in America, records began to be released, and the popularity of new music grew exponentially - after the spread of rap in America, this genre migrated to Europe, and then to Russia, and today has already covered the whole world.
On the website Kabluki.ru you can purchase tickets for any rap concerts - we offer users who have chosen the event and the desired date to place an online order for tickets. And the rap concert poster posted on the website will definitely inform fans of this musical genre about all upcoming rap concerts!
Modern rap is also one of the most important elements of hip-hop music. Moreover, many ordinary people believe that rap and hip-hop are the same thing, although this is not entirely true.
The word “rap” comes from the English word rap, which translates as “knock” or “blow.” This musical direction first appeared in the 70s. last century among African Americans living in the Bronx. It is based on a rhythmic recitative superimposed on melodic compositions, most often read to the beat. Often a very melodic chorus is added to it.
Nowadays, elements of rap are used in a huge number of other musical genres. As for Russian rap, it is, of course, still quite young, but this in no way detracts from its popularity. Concerts of rap artists in Moscow include: Oxxxymiron, Guf, Mot, Kasta, NoizeMC, Dzhigan and many other performers. They are interesting primarily to young people and have become a symbol of the generation, just like rockers once did.
Without exaggeration, rap can now be called one of the most popular musical genres in many countries. This genre today attracts the attention of many Russian music lovers.
Despite the fact that this musical direction is still very young, it has already become widespread throughout the world. And this genre arose around the 70s in the United States in poor neighborhoods of black residents. But today among its performers you can find musicians of all races and nationalities, as well as among its listeners. At the same time, initially “rap” and “hip-hop” were somewhat different concepts. But today these terms are often used interchangeably. Over time, many types of such music have appeared. Often it borrows something from other musical styles, thereby becoming interesting to a wider circle of music lovers. At the same time, the initially protest and criminal themes of such compositions are often now replaced by lyrical and other themes. In addition, many countries around the world have developed their own rap, which has its own recognizable features. Such is Russian rap, which appeared at the end of the twentieth century. In our country there are both performers who copy Western examples of the genre and those who create their own original style. Almost all over the globe, hip-hop is now very popular among young audiences. In recent years, this trend has also been observed here. In Russia, rap songs are incredibly popular. Therefore, both solo and group performances of such performers and groups are constantly held here. Famous foreign musicians often take part in such events. In addition, those who wish to book tickets for a rap event can sometimes meet up-and-coming talents from our country. On the domestic stage, the number of such performers is growing from year to year. Russia already has its own rap “stars” and even legends of the genre.
Today, Moscow constantly hosts a sea of events that are directly related to this musical direction. A considerable part of such programs turn out to be so attractive to young and other audiences that it is almost impossible to get into them. But our company is almost always ready to help you with this. At the same time, our qualified employees will select the most convenient places. And delivery of orders to customers is the responsibility of our own courier service.
