Rapping refers to “spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics”. The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow”, and “delivery”. {{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat. {{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} Rapping is often associated with and a primary ingredient of hip hop music and reggae, but the phenomenon predates hip hop culture by centuries.
