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/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&context=pwpl Philip Tagg’s 1 hour documentary on the Scotch Snap! http://tagg.org/Clips/HTML5/ScotchSnapAll_VP8.webm 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 https://youtu.be/2oMvtw4aeEY Music-Language Correlations and the “Scotch Snap” http://davidtemperley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/temperley-temperley-mp.pdf David Bruce Composer: How the way you TALK affects the music you write https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeHWJ8-_2Pk PBS Soundfield - How Trap Music Took Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKicD86F7KA Les "SCOTCH SNAPS" de Lil Wayne à Purcell [ANALYSE DE MONA LISA] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYv2PCAocfw The Scotch Snap from Strathspey to Rap - Wayne Marshall/wayneandwax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeRa0oR6iqQ The Origins of Strathspey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP188D6Phlo Rhythm in the speech and music of jazz and riddim musicians https://repository.wellesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=scholarship Perception and acquisition of linguistic rhythm by infants http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.362.2572&rep=rep1&type=pdf A Comparison of Rhythm in English Dialects and Music https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ab5a/3735a4daab3fb9f20374f40e3502ebf4f541.pdf African Banjo Playing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzt0v9roU6g (⌐■_■) EXAMPLES OF SCOTCH SNAP IN HIP HOP/POP (used in this video, there are way, way more) Soulja Boy - Pretty Boy Swag Meek Mill -