Rap-singing

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Rap-singing (also referred to as sing-rapping or sing-rap) is a vocal technique that combines rapping with sung or pitch altered vocals. While melodic vocal performances have appeared in hip-hop since its inception, rap-singing became more identifiable in the late 1980s and 1990s amid the rise of R&B and hip-hop hybrid styles like new jack swing. Some writers have traced its roots to earlier traditions in African American music, such as scat singing and 1970s funk and soul. Rap-singing rose to prominence in hip-hop, pop, and R&B by the 1990s and 2000s through artists such as Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Beyoncé, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, André 3000, Destiny's Child, T-Pain, Nelly, and Ja Rule, expanding further in the 2010s through Drake, Future, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Frank Ocean, Juice Wrld, and XXXTentacion, and in the 2020s with Bad Bunny, PinkPantheress, Don Toliver, SZA, and, to slightly lesser known audiences, artists like brakence & grandson. The technique has been influential in the...

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