Studio Memo No.1
A Message From The Operation (L) Practice.
Here at Operation (L), we have a genre-bending, ultimately anti-genre perspective from which we approach the study and the production of sonic culture.
From these, we posit the following thoughts that anchor our cultural production.
We believe that:
Rap-based music is more expansive than the way it is defined and treated in today’s music industry. It encapsulates multiple genres and exists as part of multiple subcultures.
“Rap” and “Hip-hop” are not interchangeable. Hip-hop as a culture and more specifically as a genre, utilizes Rap, a mode of vocal performance.
The story of Rap as a mode of vocal performance is more complex than the South Bronx origin theory of Hip-hop (used as interchangeable with “Rap” in popular discourse) suggests.
Rap-based music serves as the anchor for a number of subcultures, influencing and inspiring visual arts and film, fashion and object design (and the preference for those objects), language, philosophy, and so forth.
Rap: a delivery of vocal performance based on lyricism and flow; commonly used to references its aesthetic contributions to the Black urban diaspora
