Hip-hop是20多年前 始于美国街头的一种黑人 文化，也泛指说唱乐。 Hip-hop 文化的四种表现 方式包括有节奏、街 舞、 玩唱片及唱盘技巧、涂 鸦 艺 术。 因此说唱只是 hip-hop 文化中的一种元 素，要加上其它舞蹈、服 饰、生活态度等才构成完 整的hip-hop文化。
Rhythm and Blues is full translation of “R&B,” it comes from Black Blues , and it is the foundation of west pop and rock music . In recent years ,popular Hip-Hop and rap in Black music circle all come from R&B, and at the same time kept many R&B composition. Today, R&B music has become the pronoun of black popular music.
The best soul/R&B singer
最佳灵魂乐/R&B女歌手
Grammy
格莱美音乐大奖
The best global sales of R&B singer
全球销量最佳 R&B女歌手
ROCK&ROLL
摇滚乐
Rock & Roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records from the 1920s, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.
R&B的全名是Rhythm & Blues，它源于黑人的 Blues音乐，是现今西方流行乐和摇滚乐的基础。近 年黑人音乐圈大为盛行的Hip-Hop和RAP都源于 R&B，并且同时保存着不少R&B成分。今天，R&B 已经成了黑人流行音乐的代名词。
The early rock music is based with R&B, R&B is not only a kind of important transition music between the blues and rock music , it is also the most important music branch between Bruce and soul music.
R. Kelly是美国创作歌手 兼唱片制作人，史上最 成功的R&B艺人之一， 被誉为R&B之王.凭借全 球卖出超过一亿五千万
张专辑的惊人销售量、
一千五百万张的单曲销 售数字、13首单曲排行 冠军纪录，R. Kelly成为 20世纪90年代至今，最 具代表性的畅销天王之 一。1997年,凭借《 I Believe I Can Fly》获 格莱美三项大奖。
Far beyond simply a musical style, rock anstyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. Rock music is favored by the young people around the world with its flexible bold expression form and passionate music rhythm.
早期的摇滚乐也是以R&B为基础的。 R&B不仅仅是在布鲁斯和摇滚乐之间的一种 重要的过渡音乐，它还是布鲁斯和灵魂乐之 间最重要的音乐分支。
R. Kelly is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Kelly is recognized as one of the most successful R&B artists of all-time. Often referred to as the king of R&B. Kelly has released 10 studio albums, sold 35 million albums in the U.S, 15 million singles, and over 50 million albums worldwide making him the most successful R&B male artist of 1990s .In 1997, Kelly won three Grammy Awards for "I Believe I Can Fly".
American music major types
Hip Hop（嘻哈） R&B（节奏布鲁斯） Rock&roll（摇滚乐） American country music （美国乡村音乐） Classical（古典音乐） ···
Hip Hop 嘻哈 说唱
Hip hop is 20 years ago the American street began in the streets of a black culture, also referring to rap. Hip hop culture have four ways includes rhythm, playing and dancing street, play record and discs skills , Graffiti art . So hip hop rap just a kind of culture - with other elements, dance, clothing, life attitude to constitute a complete hip hop culture.