Chap hop is a bizarre combination of the strong beat and rhythms associated with rap music, but with lyrics featuring such stereotypically upper-class turns of phrase as nincompoop ("foolish person") and adverbs like frightfully and awfully. Delivering their performance in the received pronunciation with an upper-class affectation, chap-hop musicians (sometimes described as chap-hoppers), turn themselves out in bowler hats, tweed suits or stripey blazers, sport handle-bar moustaches, brandish pipes, and often accompany themselves by strumming on the banjolele, a guitar-like instrument which is a cross between a banjo and a ukelele.
Chap Hop音樂將有力的節(jié)拍和說唱樂節(jié)奏奇妙地組合在一起,它的歌詞具有典型的上層社會風(fēng)格,比如nincompoop(愚蠢的人)、副詞frightfully和awfully。Chap-hop音樂家們在表演時,使用英國上層社會的標準發(fā)音,戴著圓頂硬禮帽、穿著花呢套裝或條紋寬松運動外衣,炫耀著自己的鉗柄小胡子,揮舞著自己的煙管,而且經(jīng)常還一邊彈奏著班卓萊利琴,一種類似于吉他的既像班卓琴又似尤克萊利琴的樂器。
Two leading exponents of the genre are Professor Elemental and Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer, other names include Poplock Holmes & DJ WattsOn.
Chap hop的兩位典型代表是Elemental教授和B先生The Gentleman Rhymer,代表人物還有Poplock Holmes 和DJ WattsOn。