Zapp
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Zapp (mobile payments)
Zapp or Pay by Bank app is a proposed mobile payment system provided by VocaLink in conjunction with several banks and building societies in the United Kingdom. Zapp is designed for individuals to pay businesses in shops, on the internet, or from paper bills using their banks own mobile banking app.
Zapp is supported by Nationwide Building Society and banks including HSBC, Santander and Metro Bank.
Zapp was intended to be launched in the Autumn of 2014, but this date passed without launch. In July 2015 Zapp and Barclays announced that they had teamed up, with the intention of launching in October 2015 using Barclays Pingit application, with this date again passing without the service being introduced and no explanation being provided. Pingit is available for anyone with a UK bank account using an Android or Apple smartphone.
For payments in shop, Zapp will pass a digital token from the till to and a persons mobile phone using Near field communication or a QR code. The payment will then be completed by the shopper using their own mobile banking application, and no personal or bank details will change hands. Zapp can be used anywhere the "Pay by Bank app" symbol is displayed.
Zapp (album)
Zapp is the self-titled debut album of the Ohio Funk band Zapp, released on Warner Bros. Records on July 28, 1980. The album's style was highly similar to Parliament-Funkadelic as the band was working with and being produced by both Parliament members William Earl "Bootsy" Collins and George Clinton during the album's production. The Troutman family of the Zapp band had close ties with the Collins family, both being Ohio natives. This friendship proved instrumental in Zapp gaining a record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1979. Zapp was recorded between late 1979 and early 1980 at the United Sound Studios in Detroit Michigan, the studio of which Parliament-Funkadelic frequented.
The album was released on July 28, 1980 on Warner Bros. Records and was certified gold by November 1980, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot R&B tracks chart in the Autumn of 1980 for 2 weeks. The album has been cited as one of the definitive albums of early 80s electronic funk, bringing the genre into mainstream attention. The album has also served as a partial source toward the creation of the G-funk sound of Hip-Hop, which was popular on the West coast of the United States during the early to mid 1990's. Numerous acts have extensively sampled tracks from the album.
Hip hop skit
A hip hop skit is a form of sketch comedy that appears on a hip hop album or mixtape, and is usually written and performed by the artists themselves. Skits can appear on albums or mixtapes as individual tracks, or at the beginning or end of a song. Some skits are part of concept albums and contribute to an album's concept. Skits also occasionally appear on albums of other genres.
The hip-hop skit was more or less pioneered by De La Soul and their producer Prince Paul who incorporated many skits on their 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
The Hip Hop Skit although dominant throughout the 90s and the early 2000s began to be phased out in the later half of the 2000s and the early 2010s. Reasons for this include the popularity of MP3 as well as the invention of the iPod Shuffle, which could only play tracks in a random order.
Writing for The AV Club, Evan Rytlewski opined that skits may have originally been in vogue because an expanded tracklisting would look more appealing to would be buyers, although he noted that their first inclusion on a De La Soul record was most likely just them being "eccentric".
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