Whois & Analysis for hiphopdx.com

HipHopDX is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news.

The website's current president and publisher is Sharath Cherian and the editor-in-chief is Trent Clark.

HipHopDX is the flagship publication of Cheri Media Group.

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing.

Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing.

Rapping (or emceeing, MCing, or rhyming) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular," (slang) which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.

The components of rapping include "content", "flow" (rhythm,rhyme and cadence), and "delivery".

Rap differs from spoken-word poetry in that rap is usually performed in time to a beat (external meter).

Rapping is often associated with and a primary ingredient of hip-hop music (though there is hip hop without rapping, such as instrumental songs), but the origins of the phenomenon predate hip-hop culture by centuries.

Rapping is also used in Kwaito music, a genre that originated in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is composed of hip-hop elements.

Another form of rap that predates hip hop was boxer Muhammad Ali's rhythmic poetry used to taunt his opponents in the 1960s and 1970s.

A music video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings.

There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song.

Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys or marketing campaigns for food and other products.

Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium.

Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip".

Amp was a music video program on MTV that aired from 1996 to 2001.

It was aimed at the electronic music and rave crowd and was responsible for exposing many electronica acts to the mainstream.

When co-creator Todd Mueller (who had worked on this with V.

Owen Bush and Amy Finnerty) left the show in 1998, it was redubbed Amp 2.0.

The show aired some 46 episodes in total over its 6-year run.

In its final two years, reruns were usually shown from earlier years.

Amp's time slot was moved around quite a bit, but the show usually aired in the early morning hours on the weekend, usually 2am to 4am.

Because of this late night time slot, the show developed a small but cult like following.

A few online groups formed after the show's demise to ask MTV to bring the show back and air it during normal hours, but MTV never responded to the requests.