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Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community, with notable contributions from Latinos and Caribbean immigrants.
Experience the sound of 2021 with this collection of some of the biggest hip hop hits of the year.
Jun 1, 2024 · Hip-hop is a cultural movement that attained popularity in the 1980s and ’90s. It is the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form.
Jun 28, 2024 · Hip-hop’s birth date is commonly taken as August 11 1973, when an 18-year-old DJ by the name of Kool Herc spun records and spoke over them at a dance party in his Bronx apartment block.
Aug 11, 2023 · Curated by Questlove and featuring legends such as Grandmaster Flash, Run-D.M.C., Ice-T, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Nelly, and GloRilla, the 2023 GRAMMYs' hip-hop tribute showed that hip-hop remains one of the most exciting music cultures — and will likely remain so for the next 50 years.
Aug 13, 2023 · Hip-hop is 50 years old, and over the last few decades the genre's created a long list of icons who've changed the face of music. It started in the Bronx, in New York, in August 1973, when...
Aug 7, 2023 · As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary on Aug. 11, The Times looks back at the artists, songs and innovations that changed the course of popular culture.
Dec 10, 2021 · This year's best hip-hop — including Westside Gunn, Mach-Hommy and Moor Mother — comes from death and defiance, erotic power and provocation, Black joy and pain — and that's just the shortlist.
Jul 18, 2023 · Hip-hop is a wondrous and centerless tangle, ubiquitous even if not always totally visible. It is a fount of constant innovation, and a historical text ripe for pilfering. It is a...
6 days ago · Megan Thee Stallion's post-traumatic reset, a left-field Lil Yachty collab, the raunchy return of cupcaKKe: June 28 delivered a truckload of major albums, and a portrait of modern rap's main tension.
