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  1. Hip-hop or hip hop music, also known as rap, and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RappingRapping - Wikipedia

    Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [1] emceeing [2] or MCing [2] [3]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular ". [4] It is usually performed over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. [4]

  3. Aug 11, 2023 · Today, rap music is the most popular genre of music, led by superstars such as Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Future, Eminem, and many others. Despite its massive success, many artists retain their strong ties to communities of color, reflecting the genre’s origins as a form rooted in the streets.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pop_rapPop rap - Wikipedia

    Pop rap (also known as pop hip-hop, pop hop, melodic hip-hop or melodic rap) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip-hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes emphasizing on pop like productions and structure.

  5. Golden age hip hop refers to mainstream hip hop music created from the mid or mid-late 1980s to the early or early-mid 1990s, particularly by artists and musicians originating from the New York metropolitan area.

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