Hip Hop
嘻哈乐

Hip hop music incorporates a number of iconic elements, most notably DJing and rapping, along with things like beat-boxing and juggling beats on turntables. In early forms of the music, DJs would loop portions of songs, highlighting the percussive 注 patterns found in them, to create their own new, emergent beats. These beats were eventually coupled with a rhyming, chanting style of singing, referred to as rapping. Beat-boxing was a hip hop movement that broke from the machine-oriented DJs, replicating their sounds and breaks with the human vocal apparatus. Early drum machines were referred to as beat-boxes and early beat-boxing simply replicated these drum sounds. Later, it became a much more complex art form, with the human vocal system mimicking even the most complex of instruments, and often even layering beats over one another by using a form of overtone singing.
嘻哈乐融合了一些标志性元素，其中最显著的有打碟和饶舌，还有其他元素如节奏口技和唱机转盘上的杂耍敲击。在嘻哈乐的早期形式中，DJ(流行音乐播音员)们会循环播放歌曲的一部分，突出其中的敲击模式，以创造出自己新的节奏。这些节奏最终与一种押韵、重复式的歌唱结合在一次，被称为饶舌。节奏口技是一项嘻哈运动，脱离了围绕着乐器转的DJ们，用人类发声器官将乐器的声音和间隔复制下来。早期的电子鼓被称为电子节奏鼓，而早期的节奏口技就是直接复制鼓声。之后节奏口技发展为一项更为复杂的艺术形式，人类的声带系统开始模仿最复杂的乐器，甚至经常用泛音唱法将节奏分层。

In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging on the national scene, such as Southern rap and Atlanta hip hop. At the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated 注 into other genres of popular music, an example being Neo soul. Hip hop became a best-selling music genre in the mid-1990s and the top selling music genre by 1999. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane.
20世纪90年代，嘻哈乐开始与其他地方风格结合在一起，形成多种风格，在全国风行起来，如南部说唱乐和亚特兰大嘻哈乐。同时，嘻哈乐也继续融入其他流行乐，例如新灵魂乐。20世纪90年代中期，嘻哈乐成为畅销音乐，并在1999年成为最热卖的音乐。在整个21世纪头十年，嘻哈乐的流行度持续攀升。从2005年开始，美国嘻哈乐销量开始出现严重下滑。