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Know ABCs of Hip Hop and academic use of rapping

The internet search engine giant, Google, commemorated the birth of hip-hop in August 2o23 with an animated doodle with flexibility viewer's D-Jaying talent


ABCs of HIP HOP

A: Acronym 'HIP HOP' stands for "Highly Intelligent People Helping Other People" which is seen as the outcome of folk-art forms of African-American and Latino communities' in the 1970s in the U.S.

B: Breakdancing/locking/popping and raping are the popular strands of Hip Hop

C: Creates music with a strong rhythm in which the words are spoken rather than sung on the subjects of politics, societal matters, and currently educational matters


Academic use of rapping

Teachers can use rapping to teach language skills or vocabulary acquistion of any subject since rap lyrics and music heavily relies soley on rhyme and rhythm. Some teachers have used rap music to teach vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation of terminology of different academic disciplines including the language of mathematics and science.


Academic rap songs, when used as non-music use music, the lyrics require the text of an academic subject to be musicalized with the elements of language arts, slant rhyme amd spoken word art.


Rapper's common hand gestures

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