| Hip hop and R&B are genres of music of African | | | | Types of music are classified as genres of music and |
| American origin. There are many companies or labels | | | | each record label promotes a certain genre or a few |
| promoting, distributing, and producing this genre of | | | | genres of music like beat, rap, folk, hip hop, jazz, punk, |
| music. | | | | rhythm and blues, and so on. |
| What are Record Labels? | | | | Hip hop music is a genre of music which involves |
| In the music industry the music of individual singers is | | | | rapping, beat boxing, DJing and sampling. It began in |
| usually promoted by big music companies or individual | | | | New York somewhere in the 1970s. In this kind of |
| smaller companies. Record labels stand for the | | | | music, the artist speaks the lyrics in the form of rhyme |
| trademark or brand of a music company that markets, | | | | in tune with a beat. This music involves live bands, |
| produces, promotes and generally provides all | | | | drum machines, and synthesizers. |
| infrastructures to a musician or singer to produce a | | | | R&B Labels |
| CD or Video. Sometimes they also search for talent | | | | Rhythm and Blues is an African American music. It first |
| and introduce new talent to the industry. This is called | | | | originated in 1940s. It was initially marketed to urban |
| the A&R, Artists, and Repertoire. They enter into | | | | African Americans. Later it came to encompass |
| contracts with their musical artists. The label used to | | | | electric blues, rock and roll, and gospel. Later on it |
| appear on the vinyl record which shows the | | | | came to mean funk and soul music. In the 1980s a |
| company's name and other details associated with the | | | | new form of R&B was introduced under the name |
| manufacturer | | | | Contemporary R&B. |
| Genres of Music | | | | |