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  2. Hip hop music - Wikipedia

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    Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...

  3. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others. Vogue (dance) Children's music. Dance music. Slow dance. Drug use in music. Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others.

  4. List of hip hop genres - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Golden age hip hop - Wikipedia

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    [39] [40] Hip hop scholar Michael Eric Dyson stated, "during the golden age of hip hop, from 1987 to 1993, Afrocentric and black nationalist rap were prominent", [41] and critic Scott Thill described the time as "the golden age of hip hop, the late '80s and early '90s when the form most capably fused the militancy of its Black Panther and Watts ...

  6. List of diss tracks - Wikipedia

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    Nick Cannon (all) feat. Suge Knight (track one), Hitman Holla, Charlie Clips, Prince Eazy (tracks one and two), Conceited (track two) Eminem. Stemming from Eminem's feud with Cannon's ex-wife, Mariah Carey ten years earlier. These are a response to Eminem's feature on the song "Lord Above", in which he disses Cannon.

  7. East Coast hip hop - Wikipedia

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    East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s. [3] [4] Hip hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in The Bronx, New York City. [5] In contrast to other styles, East Coast hip hop music prioritizes complex lyrics for attentive listening rather than beats for dancing. [5]

  8. 1990s in music - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Popular music in the 1990s saw the continuation of teen pop and dance-pop trends which had emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Furthermore, hip hop grew and continued to be highly successful in the decade, with the continuation of the genre's golden age. Aside from rap, reggae, contemporary R&B, and urban music in general remained popular ...

  9. Category:Hip hop songs by genre - Wikipedia

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    Chipmunk soul songs ‎ (8 P) Christian hip hop songs ‎ (5 C, 5 P) Cloud rap songs ‎ (8 C, 10 P) Comedy hip hop songs ‎ (5 C, 54 P) Country rap songs ‎ (3 C, 20 P) Crunk songs ‎ (8 C, 76 P)