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Hip hop sounds and styles differ from region to region, but there are also instances of fusion genres. [80] Hip hop culture has grown from the avoided genre to a genre that is followed by millions of fans worldwide. This was made possible by the adaptation of music in different locations, and the influence on style of behavior and dress. [81]
Cloud rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that has several sonic characteristics of trap music with a hazy, dreamlike and relaxed production style. [3] [4] Rapper Lil B and producer Clams Casino were early pioneers of the style. [3] [4] The term "cloud rap" is derived from its internet origins and ethereal style. [5]
Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad [1] [2] (born 18 July 1996), known professionally as Yung Lean, is a Swedish rapper.Widely cited as one of the most influential figures in the early cloud rap era, Yung Lean rose to prominence in 2013 with his song "Ginseng Strip 2002", which went viral on YouTube. [3]
In the book How to Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Myka 9 note that originally a freestyle was a spit on no particular subject – Big Daddy Kane said, "in the '80s, when we said we wrote a freestyle rap, that meant that it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style... it's basically a rhyme just bragging about yourself."
Golden age hip hop (the mid-1980s to early '90s) [74] was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says "in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time" [75] and Allmusic writes, "rhymers like ...
Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre. It typically refers to the music created around 1979 to 1983, [ 1 ] as well as any hip hop that does not adhere to contemporary styles.
A few hip-hop dance shows appeared on television in the 1990s such as 1991's The Party Machine with Nia Peeples [note 9] and 1992's The Grind. Several hip-hop dance shows premiered in the 2000s including (but not limited to) Dance Fever, Dance 360, The Wade Robson Project, MTV Dance Crew, America's Best Dance Crew, Dance on Sunset, and Shake It Up.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. LGBTQ hip-hop Stylistic origins West Coast hip-hop, queer theory, third wave feminism, pop-rap, bounce music Cultural origins 1990s in the United States Other topics Progressive rap LGBTQ representation in hip-hop music has existed since the birth of the genre even while enduring ...