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Cutting (music) - Definition and Overview
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In hip hop music, cutting is a disc jockey technique, originated by DJ Grandmaster Flash, which is "manually cueing up duplicate copies of the same record in order to play the same passage, cutting back and forth between them." (AMG) This is necessary to isolate and extend breaks into breakbeats.


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Example Usage of Cutting
tynislove: OMG THE VOCAL COACH LADY BRB Cutting HER
any_g: Hate deciphering cryptic twits. You need to fit in 140 AND make sense, dear. It's called conciseness, and it's not just Cutting all vowels.
cupcakeslam23: @Tutamum -Cutting into your convo- I recognize you by the dancing penguins. =D
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