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country artists. But the speed with
which this music has caught on has shown that a substantial number of
people have grown weary of the overproduced pop trends of 1990's
mainstream country music, and the limited range of styles and sounds
that are typically played on country radio stations. Rap Music Rap of
the late 70's and 80's, commonly called "old school", was made by DJs
scratching records and playing drum loops, with MCs rapping over the
resulting rhythms. As the genre progressed, hard-rock guitars and
hard-hitting beats were introduced by Run-D.M.C., the first hardcore
rap group, and the scratching techniques were replaced by sampling.
With their dense collages of samples, beats and white noise, Public
Enemy took sampling to the extreme, and they helped introduce a social
and political conscience to rap. This faded in the '90s, as gangsta
rap, originally introduced by NWA, who used Public Enemy's sound as a
template, became the dominant form. By the '90s, ...

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