Whois & Analysis for hiphopwired.com

A video vixen (also hip hop honey or video girl) is a female model who appears in hip-hop-oriented music videos.

The video vixen image has become a staple and a nuanced form of sex work within popular music; especially within the genre of hip-hop.

Many video vixens are aspiring actors, singers, dancers, or professional models.

Women from various cultures have been portrayed either as fragile, manipulative, fetishistic, or submissive within contemporary music lyrics, videos, concert and movie soundtracks, although this is not universal, as demonstrated by the archetypal Ride-or-die chick.

Hip hop is a subculture and art movement developed by African-Americans from the South Bronx in New York City in the late 1970s.

While people unfamiliar with hip hop culture sometimes use the expression "hip hop" to refer exclusively to hip hop music, hip hop is characterized by anywhere from four to nine distinct elements or expressive realms, of which hip hop music is only one element.

The main four are MCing/rapping (orality), turntablism or DJing (aural/sound practice), b-boying/breakdancing (movement/dance), and graffiti art (visual).

Other elements often cited are hip hop culture and historical knowledge (intellectual/philosophical), beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, African-American language, and hip hop fashion, among others.

The cultural critic Greg Tate described the hip hop movement as "the only avant-garde still around, still delivering the shock of the new, and its got a shockable bourgeoisie, to boot." Even as the genre continues to develop globally in myriad styles, the four foundational elements provide coherence to hip hop culture.

The term is often used as if synonymous with the rhymed oral tradition known as rap music.

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.

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In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.