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  2. Rapping - Wikipedia

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    American rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) sporting a hip-hop look at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, June 3, 2010. 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]

  3. Hip-hop culture - Wikipedia

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    Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.

  4. Hip-hop - Wikipedia

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    This came to be known as G-funk and dominated mainstream hip-hop in the early-mid 1990s through a roster of artists on Suge Knight's Death Row Records, including Tupac Shakur, whose double disc album All Eyez on Me was a big hit with hit songs "Ambitionz az a Ridah" and "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted"; [citation needed] and Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose ...

  5. Popular music - Wikipedia

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    There are many genres of music worldwide, over 300. Leading for the most popular genres worldwide, pop music takes the first spot. In countries like the United States, rock, rap and hip-hop, blues and R&B have a long history of taking the leading spots. [30] The most popular genres of music rank differently throughout the world.

  6. Pop rap - Wikipedia

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    During the 1990s, pop rap began to expand even more as hip hop music also began to connect strongly with dance music and R&B. [2] [3] In the early 1990s, MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice broke into the mainstream with songs such as "U Can't Touch This" and "Ice Ice Baby", respectively, but the two sampled from both songs of the 1980s. [6]

  7. Urban contemporary music - Wikipedia

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    In addition to rap, R&B and dance music, WDRQ featured mainstream pop music with a danceable beat from artists. Many radio stations imitated the urban sound since it was proven to be more profitable than other formats and had proven itself more adept than straightforward black-targeted R&B formats at attracting white and Latino listeners.

  8. Misogyny in rap music - Wikipedia

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    All of the expectations and pressures on Black men in the industry result in a normalization of these oppressive behaviors. Today, Hip Hop is broken into a range of categories defined by the identities of the artists. For example, 'Female Rap' and 'Queer Rap' both exist but lack the same respect of credentials that mainstream Hip Hop/Rap does.

  9. Alternative hip-hop - Wikipedia

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    Alternative hip hop developed in the late 1980s and experienced a degree of mainstream recognition during the early to mid-1990s. While some groups such as Arrested Development and The Fugees achieved commercial success, many alternative rap acts tend to be embraced by alternative rock listeners rather than hip hop or pop audiences. [3]