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Jazz Music (Origin)
In the early 1900s rap wasn't invented at the time, it was jazz music. The African-American community created this music genre in New Orleans, Louisiana. It consisted of swing and blue notes, complex chords, call-and-response vocals, polyrhythms, and improvisation. It slowly died down in a couple of years roughly around 1935-1946. -
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Upbringing of Rap
Jazz was still popping until the mid-1940s, that's when rap started being portrayed into the music industry and it was a big thing at the time, not to crazy of a thing at first though. Jazz was still played all the time but later on starts to die down. -
Rap Introduced to The Music Industry
Rap music originated in the early 1970s and evolved with the cultural movement of hip-hop. It emerged as the sound of the streets against the background of the heavily orchestrated and formal music from house parties or clubs. -
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Rap Industry Take off
Hip-hop became a best-selling genre in the mid-1990s and the top-selling music genre by 1999. The popularity of hip-hop music continued through the late 1990s to early 2000s "bling era" with hip-hop influences increasingly finding their way into other genres of popular music, such as neo-soul, nu-metal, and R&B. -
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The Difference in Money Now
Considering money's just all around a bigger thing nowadays, for rappers it's crazy, to be honest. I'd say the average mainstream well depending on how big your fan base is, would be a well over the millions number. Because you have to take into consideration that they sign big-time record labels, tours are way larger now, and it's not that hard to get famous with rap now. It was way harder to get famous and make the money they make now easily back then for rap artists. -
Rap Industry Now
The most notable change would be the transition of Hip-hop from a dance culture to an industry, facilitated by record labels which, in and of itself, changed the way Hip-hop artists make their music. After 1980, suddenly, rappers had access to a studio and producers were able to use machines to make original beats.