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Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre [ 9 ] consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats ) that often accompanies ...
AllMusic writes, "Hip-hop's golden age is bookended by the commercial breakthrough of Run-D.M.C. in 1986 and the explosion of predominantly West Coast gangsta rap with N.W.A in the late 80s and Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg in 1993." [1] The New York Times described hip-hop's golden age as the "late 1980s and early 90s". [44]
Old-school hip hop. 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. [ 2]
Of course, the late 1970s also witnessed the birth of hip-hop, a genre that would grow to become a dominant cultural force in music. Originating in the New York neighborhood of the Bronx, hip-hop ...
24. Melle Mel – “White Lines (Don’t Do It)” (1983) New York’s rock underground was often intertwined with the city’s early hip-hop scene. One notable example is the no wave band Liquid ...
Genge - from Kenya. Hip hop galsen - from Senegal. Hipco - from Liberia. Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana. Igbo rap - from Southeast Nigeria. Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion. Motswako - from Botswana and South Africa. Zenji flava - from Tanzania. European.
The hip hop music genre and its subculture has been criticized for its gender bias and its negative impacts on women in African-American culture. Gangsta rap artists such as Eazy-E, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac and Dr. Dre have, primarily in the 1990s, rapped lyrics that portray women as sex toys and inferior to or otherwise dependent upon men. [235]
Electro (or electro-funk) [3] [4] is a genre of electronic music and early hip hop directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines [5] [6] and funk. [7] [8] Records in the genre typically feature heavy electronic sounds, usually without vocals; if vocals are present, they are delivered in a deadpan manner, often through electronic distortion such as vocoding and talkboxing.