hip-hop

Speech parts

1. hip-hop - Noun

2. hip-hop - Verb

Meaning

genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city

Alternative names

hip hop

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Examples

Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it. Mos Def

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. Isaac Hayes

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man. Ike Turner

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. Jonathan Franzen

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. John Mayer

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. Missy Elliott

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