rap

The American media's watered-down version of MCing in hip-hop music and culture. Many people confuse MCing with rapping, however, they don't realize there is a big difference. MCing involves the use of techniques such as multisyllabic rhymes, unconventional rhymes, internal rhymes, cliffhangers, catch-phrases, metaphors, similes, puns, and other forms of word play. MCing also involves the use of "droppin' science," or making songs that are used to educate or, as KRS-One calls it, "edutainment." Rapping is used in forms of "music" such as "gangsta rap," "bounce," and "crunk." although these forms of vocal music are loosely related, they do not have any influence on each other.