The influence of the use of the tosillos within hip hop in the development of music
Hip hop is a cultural manifestation like any musical genre directly related to some culture. It is considered a musical genre that was born in African -American culture in the twentieth century, so it is relatively new. Some characteristics for which it is known are for their profane language, their obscene themes and its rawness, and is highly tied to the African -American population and this modifies the dynamics of relationship between hip hop artists, but when analyzing their structure, they can understandThe difficulties and life of the culture that generates it, so it is highly important to examine this element that is part of this culture that they have.
The tosillos are an irregular rhythm within the music theory that means that a time is split into three notes, within the hip hop the tives have been used since the beginning of this genre but the increase in the use of these during 2010 causedthat the subgenus of the trap will develop from these techniques. This leads to the investigation question. What influence did the use of the tosillos within hip hop in the development of Trap music during 2010?. At work, the use of the tives will be examined in various works that represent different movements of artists to investigate the influence they had. The pieces that were selected for this analysis were selected by impact and the time in which they were created, firstly the song of Migos was used which has a very remarkable impact and it was one of the first popular songs with the use of tives,Then Eminem’s Not Alike song was used since it presents a criticism of the song that is subsequently used, Bad and Bouje that presents the same Townos Flow, is finally analyzed in a song called All We Got of Chance The Rapper andThat this artist uses the troosillos to create an artistic album called Coloring Book.
This topic is not very recurrent in formal music research works, so the development of works that focus on the understanding of this genre is important to expand the panorama of knowledge in music. For this lack of study in the musical genre of hip hop and the trap;The amount of scores available is very limited. So for the lamayoria of the songs and pieces that were used for this research work, it was transcribed by the author of this monograph. The scores were transcribed by an Internet program to transcribe scores called Flat.IO and the BPM was taken from a page called Songbpm.com to form the complete transcription of these songs. It is very high importance to create works, such as this, that examine the genre of hip hop and the artistic dynamics that it has because it is a genre with high cultural impact in today’s society since a large number of the most popular songs currently belong toThis gender, and is not very studied by academic works.
Musical context
The structure used in hip hop used to create music can be analyzed with musical theory. A hip hop subgenre that emerged in 2010 was the trap. The trap is known and identified by its slow time, its use of tivel -based structures and its distinctive use of the 808’s. Drums in a piece of hip hop are called 808’s since in electronic music since the 80’s a rhythm box called “Roland TR-808” has been used, which was of the first tools that made possible the use ofprogrammable rhythms, so its popularity was made by one of the distinctive instruments of hip hop and electronic music. This rhythms box had technological limitations, so the variation in the rhythm was one of the few variables that could be altered, so the use of the trengos was one of the few musical resources to which you could use.
The origins of rap can be traced to various sources in African, Caribbean and African -American traditions, including Western Africa Griots, Jamaican toast, meanings, dozens, jazz poetry and the song(Keyes 2002, 17-121). Rap itself emerged in the 70’s with African -American culture mixing a socially difficult lifestyle and African rhythms, this results in a highly culturally loaded genre that serves as a vehicle of expression of this social sector. The emergence of this musical genre reflects the progress of this African -American culture, this same genre became popular and accepted in the 90’s with the birth of the rap phase called “the rap of the new school” and reached the commercial epitome in 2004When more than a quarter of the songs in the "Billboard Top 100" belonged to this genre.(Source) The "rap of the new school" has as characteristic a high level of musical production, which is consistent with popularity of rap and evolves to being a very high level professional production.
Cultural context
Rap roots come from jazz poetry, a poetic text is loaded that has been analyzed from academic literature in fields such as sociology and social psychology of the African -American group. These texts are highly prosodic, since they have rhythm, tone and bell;prosody is rhythmically used to generate vowels that are fundamental to rap. These literary studies are mainly concentrated in the letter presented in these pieces, being musicological studies;Also within these literature studies, the author’s style analysis is presented, these analysis studies are limited to the letter presented lyrical but recently the analysis studies have been extended to structural issues (Krims, 2001). These structural style analysis are generally referenced as the "flow", the concept of these analysis was proposed by the book of Adam Krims (2001) that presents a general study classifying the style with structural methods such as the placement of the rhymes in the syllables, the placement of the accents in the syllables, the correspondence between syntactic units and times, and the number of syllables per time. These style analysis are born from the concept that each syllable represents a musical note, in this way you can know the rhythmic of a piece by analyzing how the melodic rhythmic interacts over time. Aexception of some works such as Adam Krims, the extension of the literature that has been created is decadent in the technical aspect and handle the pieces as texts and not as music.
The "Flow" Migos
The musical style of the artists in the hip hop is called as the "flow", these is one of the most referenced words when talking about an artist’s skills and the way they write. A musical group that is considered to have a large amount of influence on the hip hop of the new school is the group of "mys", this group is composed of three musicians known as quavo (Quavious Marshall), Offset (Kiari Cephus) andTakeoff (Kirshnik Ball). The group has had songs like "Bad and Boujee" that was in the first place world at the Billboard Top 100 on January 21, 2017 (Billboard Top 100, 2017), this demonstrates the popularity of the group and the amount of influence that hasnowadays. The group is known for its rhythmic style of the use of the tives, this stylistic use has been called the "mythos style" (there would be necessary to include some reference as well as with the word flow above) which was highly used for the first time in the songof "Versace" that came out in 2013 (Migos, 2013). This song is composed of a choir and three verses, which all are highly loaded with the use of the Tienos, the tosillos are present in different prosodic layers and through the rhyme. This song was popular so much that one of the most recognized rappers within the industry called Drake, used the instrumentation to take out a version that included a structure based on the Treils. In this song it can be seen that the structure is presented in Treillos and that the syllabic stress also comes in TrekThey received.
Migos style criticism
This stylistic tendency that involves the use of the tives not only had an impact on them, but also caused a movement against the use of these. Trap music is generally criticized with the connotation of is considered "muble rap" that is a style of rapping in which rappers mascullan words with a very weak prosody. The weak prosody and the use of the tives make up a musical style seen as a variant of the rap of the new school and is criticized by some of the old school rap, such as Snoop Dogg which a rapper who made his debut in 1991, which, whichIt is considered one of the old school rappers. Snoop Dogg recently talked about the musical style that is considered the flow of mys in an interview with rapper 50 Cent, in this interview he spoke about the musical style of Migos and the rap of the new school, “Now everyone is trying to rapsame style. I don’t know who created it, if it was "Future" or "Migos" but everyone sounds the same "(Cordazar Broadus Snoop Dogg, 2017). This contempt presented by Snoopdogg is presented in many of the rapperos of the old school when they discuss the mimusic tendencies that influence the rap of the new school.
Bad and Boujee and Not Alike
In the Migos style, the Tosillos Flow has been preserved, as in the song of Bad and Boujee, the structure of the Treils in the first two bars is. Here you can see how two tresillos are used to say a set of two syllables, then 8 tresillos are used to say a compass with a silence and ⅓ of silence.
This style of Migos was criticized in the song of Eminem de Not Alike, you can see the same flow that was used in the past score, but the first compass extends to 8 measures, this uses Eminem to make fun of how simple it isDoing that flow, then the next bad and boujee compass has 8 tresillos in a compass, Eminem uses exactly the same of 8 tresillos but extending 1 compass to 6 measures, this is also used to ridicule the flow that uses migos. Eminem is one of the artists who have the most influence within hip hop, since it has driven the genre by putting it within the most popular musical genres in the 2000s, this is known with the number of hip hop songs in the Billboard Top 100.
THE HISTORY OF THE TOSILLOS
The tosillos are part of the music since it exists, this irregular time can be observed in music created from the beginning of African music. Also in Western music you can see the use of this resource, as in the Sonata number 14 of Beethoven in which the voice in the Sun key repeats a phrase that are 12 tresillos per compass.
The use of the tosillos in the hip hop did not begin with the stylistic use of mys, the tosillos are an irregular structure that has been used since the hip hop and music began, so groups such as "Three Six Mafia", which, whichThey had more than anything in the southern United States, they use the Tosillos Flow long before the hip hop adapted them and popularized them in the way they are popular today. This can be seen in the Sleep song, in which in the outermost layer of prosody, that is, the tives are heard in the simplest way.
The Tosillos in "All We Got"
The use of the Treils can be demonstrated in a song of the genre of hip hop by Chance The Rapper in 2016, this song is called "All We Got" is the opening song of its newest album called "Coloring Book". This album is the third album released by the rapper and number three appears through all its work, this is demonstrated on the cover of the album, in which the rapppe has put a cap that only has one number, which is thenumber 3. (Chancery Bennett, 2016).
This issue of number 3 remains not only on theme, but also in the structure and content of the album. This theme can be seen in a piece of “All We Got” in which the structure for the accommodation of the syllables is in Treillos, this can be seen in the rhythmic layer of the accommodation of the syllables of the song.
Apart from just having the structure of the tosillos in the rhythmic layer of the song and in the accommodation of the syllables it also has it in the rhymes that are presented in the lyrics of the song, if the rhymes of the song are schematizedthat appear in sets of three generally and that are in the same structure of tivels that you have.
The artist added the tives to highlight the theme of number three in his album, but it was not only for this. The tendency of the use of the tives is widely used by the modern music of the trap, so they are already interpreted as one of the musical bases of this genre. Chance The Rapper used this to express a work that is a representative of the stylistic currents of his time.
The number three is highly recurring on his album, Chance has also declared that he is a Catholic person and his album reflects this in his songs. The album contains two songs with the same name "Blessings" which means blessings, this shows that Chance has religious tendencies and his music reflects this, within the Catholic religion the number three is extremely symbolic and is called a divine number for its appearance insideof symbols such as the Holy Trinity in the Bible and the theme of number three also extended to the expression of the religion of Chance The Rapper, so the use of the musical resource of the Treils allowed him to give his music a greater depth to his musicwant to express themselves about their religion.
Chance also used a trumpet to mark the time using black, the use of blacks generally means the marking of the time that is being had, then this trumpet begins to disappear in some times, however the structure based on the tives continues,This gives the illusion that Chance becomes the voice that marks the time with the structure of the tosillos, in this way that as music is all that he has in his life, he wants to deliver completely to music and the formin which it is delivered is becoming part of the music itself.
The BPM over time
A fundamental aspect that has to be analyzed when the metric of a song or musical piece is seen, is the duration of a compass or the tempo. This time is marked by the number of times per minute that is given in the song or piece. Time is measured in the number of times per minute or BPM, so for a song in which it has a tempo per second its BPM is 60.
This time is very important, since the jazz and in the roots of hip hop, time was despised and included incredibly harmonic melodies in a very short time, without having much awareness for the time of the song, and this results in someof the melodies that represent jazz. The interlude of For Free? From Kendrick Lamar on his album "To Pimp to Butterfly" represents a jazz melody represented by a voice like hip hop. This is achieved by having a harmonic melody in the voice and putting everything inside the time imitating the saxophone that is heard in the background, making the second jazz melody.
Kendrick Lamar follows a pattern with silences between the voice that last 1/15 of time or 1/16 of time, which is a characteristic of jazz. This being an interlude that represents jazz, is ‘melodic without notes that are approaching time. Hip hop is the antithesis of this characteristic, since there is a highly rhythmic and not very melodic genre, this importance that is given at the time within the hip hop can be represented in the next song of the album “To Pimp AButterfly "called" King Kunta "which is a song with a Beat of the 80’s that is Álínte attached to the following time, and the rap made by Kendrick Lamar is in this way, highly binary following eighths and semicorcheas, this style is becauseThe BPM and the main voice have much in common. The notes used for this song are regular notes and there is no use of the tosillos or swing, so it attaches a lot to the BPM. The use of BPM through hip hop has dropped considerably.
During 2000 the hip hop reached a much higher point of popularity among other genres, this popularity brought with it a lot of money and fame for certain rappers. One of them, called "Curtis James Jackson III, also known as 50 Cent", became famous because in the hip hop there has always been a practice called the "Sample" that is that the rappers use songs or pieces already made and add it and add itYour own flow with a voice melody on top. 50 centaccepting the concept of the "bite" or "samplear" the songs or flows of other artists for their own use. This is why a flow like the use of the tives could popularize so much and became a global concept in the hip hop panorama. In this dynamic of the sampling of other artists songs it was extended through this last centennium and caused many of the most popular songs to be highly similar in structure and style. This fact that modern music is highly repetitive and identical to each other, was proposed by Donald and. Knuth in its publication of "The complexity of songs" in which it shows that modern songs are not very complex and repetitive, which is caused by this influence on the panorama of pop artists, in which if a style isCreated, other artists can grab it for their own use.
conclusion
Music is a means of artistic expression that has roots in human nature, analyzing this environment you can understand many things of the nature and life of human beings. The music developed by a culture has traits that can explain the thoughts or feelings that the artists who do it feel, so understanding these features is essential for the understanding of the people who create it. Although the music of a genre is not very complex, or does not have much musical recognition, as well as the feelings, soul and work of the artists who create it.
Hip Hop is a means of expression like any other, within this it can obviously observe how there are movements such as the use of the tosillos that dominated the genre in a very sudden way. The use of the Treils, even if they are a musical base that has always been used, as well as the influence of the new school, this was due to the decrease in the BPM that has been in the hip hop,What gives trap artists more space to leave the notes in smaller pieces like in Treillos. It could be said that jazz music does not focus on the rhythm of voices, hip hop introduced an antithesis to this idea when the use of rhythm, and the trap was a synthesis of the rapid rhythms of jazz but with a structure of the HipHop with the trend of the tosillos.Trap music was born like any other genre, it is a means of expression that took the foundations of hip hop and revolutionized it by making its own structure and characteristics. The acceptance of the complexity of this -year can be discussed and questioned by people of the New and old school, but the fact that it contains humanity and art is unquestionable.
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