![]() ![]() Rap music need not be tied to any local live performance traditions while ‘hip-hop’ implies a connection to the broader culture of hip-hop (Pough, 2004). Hip-hop, though difficult to define (see Allen 2006), encompasses a key set of practices (emceeing, breaking, turntablism and graffiti), and is based on a live performance culture. This is in part due to a tendency to conflate rap music with hip-hop (Chang, 2006 Forman, 2002). Hip-hop heads will never run out of places to go to in order to experience the culture in its rawest form: beats, rhymes, and the omnipresent rap cipher " (Mkhabela, 2014) Much of the scholarship on global hip-hop neglects the live performance context of hip-hop culture in favour of lyrical analysis. "Afternoon park jams are one of the biggest avenues hip-hop exists in, in Cape Town. ![]()
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