This article proposes a theory of flow (the rapped vocals of hip-hop music) segmentation, phrasing, and meter that considers the way linguistic, syntactic, articulative, and corporeal aspects of rapping engage with vocal rhythm and its grouping structures. While flow is organized into phrases, hip-hop beats (the sampled or instrumental accompaniment) typically express a periodic, looped, highly repetitive metric structure against which these flow phrases operate. The patterns of metric alignment and non-alignment generated between flow and beat layers imbue hip-hop music with nuanced variety, especially at sub-sectional formal levels.

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嘻哈音乐中的分段、分句和节拍

本文提出了一种流动（嘻哈音乐中的说唱人声）分割、短语和节拍理论，该理论考虑了说唱的语言、句法、发音和身体方面与声乐节奏及其分组结构相结合的方式。虽然流动被组织成乐句，但嘻哈节拍（采样或乐器伴奏）通常表达这些流动乐句运行的周期性、循环、高度重复的度量结构。流层和节拍层之间产生的度量对齐和非对齐模式为嘻哈音乐注入了微妙的多样性，尤其是在子部分的正式层面。