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What was this type of rap music called?

BillieTheBotBillieTheBot Posts: 8,721 Bot
edited January 2023 in General Chat
This is another oldies alert I'm afraid, mainly confined to 1994 :-) Okay, I'm describing rap music where there is tuning to the spoken lyrics, but only (usually) on 3 adjacent notes. Examples are:

Red Dragon - Compliments On Your Kiss
CJ Lewis - Sweets For My Sweet
Baby D - I Need Your Loving (the rap part)
Basement Jaxx - Fly Life
The middle (rap) part of 7 Seconds
Possibly some Reel 2 Real as well

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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
    i like to move it certainly has dancehall and ragga elements. same with the rap bit in baby ds i need your lovin.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thanks Skive! I know it's not really a recognised rap in today's music, but I suddenly remembered amidst my oldskool nostalgia and was trying the find out :-) I liked how this rap (ragga) was also used in oldskool jungle, before the genre widened out into 'drum n base'.
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