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  2. Hip-hop in academia - Wikipedia

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    Hip Hop studies has been growing as an academic discipline since the mid-1990s; two decades after its genesis. By the millennium and in the early 2000s, scholars such as Tricia Rose, Michael Eric Dyson, Cornel West, Anthony B. Pinn, Jeff Chang, Nelson George, Bakari Kitwana, Mark Anthony Neal, and Murray Forman, began to engage Hip Hop's history, messages of resistance, social cognizance ...

  3. Gully rap - Wikipedia

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    Example of gully rap. Gully rap is an emerging genre of hip-hop music that originated from Mumbai. [1] It has since spread across India. [2] Inspired by American rappers like Tupac, The Notorious B.I.G. and Nas, the music discusses the street life in distinct Hindu-Urdu rhythm and cadence. [1] [3] Gully means "narrow lane" in Hindi.

  4. Desi hip-hop - Wikipedia

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    Desi hip hop is a term for music and culture which combines the influences of hip hop and the Indian subcontinent; the term desi referring to the South Asian diaspora. The term has also come to be used as an alternative for rap music and even pop music which involves rappers of South Asian origins.

  5. Hip-hop - Wikipedia

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    The term gained further currency in September of that year in another Bambaataa interview in The Village Voice, [43] by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip-hop. [44] Hip-hop and rap music are often used interchangeably but the term "hip-hop" has also been historically used to describe a culture of which music is a part. [8]

  6. Hip-hop culture - Wikipedia

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    Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...

  7. Questlove to Write ‘Hip-Hop Is History’ Book for Rap’s 50th ...

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    The Questlove-led all-star mega-medley of hip-hop hits during the Grammy Awards — which featured everyone from Grandmaster Flash and Run-D.M.C. to GloRilla and Lil Uzi Vert — was dazzling ...

  8. Divine (rapper) - Wikipedia

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    Divine provided additional rap lyrics for Ranveer Singh's character and composed some of the songs for the original soundtrack. A promotional single NY se Mumbai featuring American artist Nas as well as Naezy, divine and Ranveer Singh was released on JioSaavn shortly prior to the film's release.

  9. KRSNA (rapper) - Wikipedia

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    Krishna Kaul was born into a Kashmiri Hindu Pandit family in Delhi.He spent a part of his childhood in South London, where he was raised and schooled for a few years. Kaul started rapping at the age of fourteen in an effort to blend in with other children at his school in London.