hip hop

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hip-hop=a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing.

The article traces the origins of hip hop music and its implications for Black studies. The music was created during the 1970s in South Bronx, New York by Jamaican disc jockey Kool Herc. It originally included rapping, break dancing and beat boxing. It observes that with the culture's gaining world prominence, it has continued to exert a strong social impact, citing a song sung by Grandmaster Flash in 1980 as an example. Also described is the growth of the hip hop market and the association of hip hop with crime, violence and drugs.

HIP-HOP: 1988 TO 1996 The era of music currently and inexplicably popular on playlists of trendy, young-skewing restaurants around the country. Prominent among the voices are Comptons Most Wanted, Mic Geronimo, and Smif N Wessun. No rapping along. Just nod your head.

1. a form of popular music that originated among inner-city African-American youths in the 1980s, drawing on rap, funk, street sounds, and fragments of melody and rhythm borrowed from previously recorded sources
2. the culture or a fashion, dance, etc. associated with this music