Universal Zulu Nation founder Afrika Bambaataa is credited with first using the term to describe the subculture in which the music belonged although it is also suggested that it was a derogatory term to describe the type of music.

Cowboy later worked the 'hip hop' cadence into a part of his stage performance, which was quickly used by other artists such as The Sugarhill Gang in ' Rapper's Delight'. Army, by scat singing the words 'hip/hop/hip/hop' in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers. It is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing a friend who had just joined the U.S. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was still known as disco rap. 3.1 Nationalization and internationalizationĬreation of the term hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.The term hip-hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music. While often used to refer to rapping, 'hip hop' more properly denotes the practice of entire subculture. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/ scratching, breaking/dancing and graffiti writing. Hip hop music, also called Rap music or Hip-hop music is an American musical genre in which rhythmic and rhyming speech is chanted to musical accompaniment. Ĭountry rap - Australian hip-hop - Hip-hop soul - Hip house - Crunk/ Hyphy - Jazz rap - Merenrap - Neo soul - Nu metal - Hip pop - Ragga - Rap opera - Rap rock - Rapcore - Rap metal - Cumbia rap - Merenrap - Hip life - Low Bap - Glitch hop - Wonky - Industrial hip-hop - New jack swing - Electro hop - Psychedelic hip-hopĮast Coast hip-hop - West Coast hip-hop - Southern hip-hop - Midwest hip-hop - Southwest Hip-Hop - British hip-hop Rapping - turntable.and maybe also beatboxing? Funk, disco, dub, rhythm and blues, reggae, dancehall, toasting, performance poetry, spoken word, signifying, the dozens, scat singing, talking blues

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