i like rap music.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates \"rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular\", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment. The components of rap include \"content\" (what is being said), \"flow\" (rhythm, rhyme), and \"delivery\" (cadence, tone). Rap differs from spoken-word poetry in that rap is usually performed in time to an instrumental track. Rap is often associated with, and is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, but the origins of the phenomenon predate hip-hop culture. The earliest precursor to the modern rap is the West African griot tradition, in which \"oral historians\", or \"praise-singers\", would disseminate oral traditions and genealogies, or use their formidable rhetorical techniques for gossip or to \"praise or critique individuals.\" Griot traditions connect to rap along a lineage of Black verbal reverence that goes back to ancient Egyptian practices, through James Brown interacting with the crowd and the band between songs, to Muhammad Ali's quick-witted verbal taunts and the palpitating poems of the Last Poets. Therefore, rap lyrics and music are part of the \"Black rhetorical continuum\", and aim to reuse elements of past traditions while expanding upon them through \"creative use of language and rhetorical styles and strategies.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I really like the flow of rap music! Are you a fan?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah! I must admit I'm an old lady and am not too familiar with newer rap artists except for Kendrick Lamar. What can you tell me about rap and its history?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The earliest precursor to rap was thought to be a West African griot tradition. Rappers were known as \"oral historians\" or \"praise-singers\"!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That makes sense! I bet it sounded really cool"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'll bet it did! A lot of people seem to think that rap and hip-hop are the same, but they're not. Rap is actually much older than hip-hop music."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the difference?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Believe it or not, hip hop is characterized by nine elements. I don't think rap has quite that many. Rap is much more old school!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What are the nine elements, do you know? Wow there's a lot to learn about this art form"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The four key elements are MCing/rapping, break dancing, graffiti writing and DJing with turntables. I think hip hop more encompasses the whole subculture instead of just the music."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah I noticed that some people call all african-americans \"hip hoppers\" lol"}]