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R&B

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s.The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.

Hip-Hop

Hip hop is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, defined by key stylistic elements such as rapping, DJing, sampling, scratching and beatboxing. Hip hop began in the Bronx in New York City in the 1970s, primarily among African Americans, Jamaican Americans and Latino Americans. The term rap is often used synonymously with hip hop, but hip hop denotes the practices of an entire subculture.

Rap

Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing], spitting , or just rhyming) refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into ìcontentî, ìflowî (rhythm and rhyme), and ìdeliveryî. Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that is it performed in time to the beat of the music.