The Scotch Snap is everywhere in modern hip hop - a metrically accented sixteenth note followed by a dotted eighth note. Why is it everywhere? And where did it come from?

The answer lies in how American speak english.

A Study of Rhythm in London: Is Syllable-timing a Feature of Multicultural London English?
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/view...

Philip Tagg’s 1 hour documentary on the Scotch Snap!
http://tagg.org/Clips/HTML5/ScotchSna...

Another fantastic lecture by Philip Tagg if you want to get into this stuff
https://vimeo.com/278543832

Music and the Brain: The Music of Language and the Language of Music
   • Music and the Brain: The Music of Lan...  

Music-Language Correlations and the “Scotch Snap”
http://davidtemperley.com/wp-content/...

David Bruce Composer: How the way you TALK affects the music you write
   • How the way you TALK affects the MUSI...  

PBS Soundfield - How Trap Music Took Over
   • Who Invented Trap Music?  

Les "SCOTCH SNAPS" de Lil Wayne à Purcell [ANALYSE DE MONA LISA]
   • Les "SCOTCH SNAPS" de Lil Wayne à Pur...  

The Scotch Snap from Strathspey to Rap - Wayne Marshall/wayneandwax
   • The Scotch Snap from Strathspey to Ra...  

The Origins of Strathspey
   • The Origins of the Strathspey  

Rhythm in the speech and music of jazz and riddim musicians
https://repository.wellesley.edu/cgi/...

Perception and acquisition of linguistic rhythm by infants
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...

A Comparison of Rhythm in English Dialects and Music
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ab5a...

African Banjo Playing!
   • Daniel Jatta Plays an Akonting Tune W...  

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EXAMPLES OF SCOTCH SNAP IN HIP HOP/POP (used in this video, there are way, way more)
Soulja Boy - Pretty Boy Swag
Meek Mill - I B On Dat Feat. Nicki Minaj, French Montana & Fabolous
Beyoncé - Drunk in Love
Ariana Grande - 7 Rings
Ariana Grande - thank u, next
Childish Gambino - Worldstar
Bazzi - Mine
Lizzo - Juice
Wifisfuneral - It Don’t Matter
Cardi B, Bad Bunny, J Balvin - I Like It
Zedd, Marren Moris, Grey - The Middle

ALSO FEATURED
J Balvin, William William - Mi Gente
Vybz Kartel - Come Home
Kery James - Mouhammad Alix

SCOTCH SNAP EXAMPLES in Scottish Music
Siobhan Miller    • Video  
Douglas Lawrence    • Scottish fiddle : Douglas Lawrence pl...  
Andrea Beaton    • Andrea Beaton live at Celtic Colours ...  

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