Chopper style

In hip-hop and rap, chopper style describes a very fast, yet understandable and timed speaking style.

There are many well-known rappers of this style in the American Midwest , e. B. Chicago , Cleveland , Kansas City (Missouri) and Detroit , including the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony , Dalima & D-Loc The Gill God, Twista , Tech N9ne , Krizz Kaliko and Bow Wow . This rhyming technique is also found on the west coast of the United States , for example from NoClue , T-Nutty, E-40 or Twisted Insane and on the east coast from Busta Rhymes and Jay-Ztogether with Jaz-O in the song The Originators from 1990. Yelawolf is important in the southern United States . In Europe , the German rappers Schwartz , ShimmyMC , Samy Deluxe , SpongeBOZZ (Sun Diego), Kollegah and DCVDNS should be mentioned, as well as Ceza in Turkey and U $ o in Denmark . Many ambiguities and hints about the name of the style can often be heard in songs such as B. Running Out of Time , Stamina and Speed of Sound from Tech N9ne, Gun Blast , Flow Motion and 9mm from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Kill Shit from Krizz Kaliko, Twista and Tech N9ne.

The name of this kind of black horse is derived from the nickname of the Russian AK-47 assault rifle , which is Chopper . Some also speak of helicopter skills . You can read this in the verse of Twista in the song Worldwide Choppers by rapper Tech N9ne, which says: "Or even try to stop us' cause we choppers and we worldwide" (in German something like: "Or try to stop us." because we are choppers and all over the world ”).

The official record for rap speed is 14.2 syllables / second (723 syllables in 51.27 sec.), Which corresponds to about 6-7 words / second. The world record holder is the Westcoast rapper NoClue. There are also faster ones, but they are unknown and which are said to fast forward their recordings.

Web links

Vanessa Patrick: That's Chopper - and that's how the style came to Germany . In: Puls , BR.de , October 7, 2016.