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Hip hop as music and culture formed during the 1970s in New York City. As expressed by Mark D. Naison of Fordham University, "Hip hop was born multicultural", gaining influences from African American and Anglo-Caribbean musical traditions, as well as African American and Latin American dancing traditions. [ 47 ]
Drill music. Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar to the gangsta rap subgenre. [ 2] Early drill artists are noted for their explicit, confrontational style of lyricism and association with crime in Chicago, especially the ...
Hip hop culture is characterized by the key elements of rapping [ b], DJing and turntablism, and breakdancing; [ 9][ 10] other elements include graffiti, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip hop fashion. [ 11][ 12] From hip hop culture emerged a new genre of popular music, hip hop music .
Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music pioneered by Atlanta rappers T.I., Jeezy, and Gucci Mane, which originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999. [ 1][ 3] The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term "trap house", a house used exclusively to sell ...
Phonk ( / fɒŋk / ⓘ) is a subgenre of hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap. The style is characterized by vocals from old Memphis rap tapes and samples from early 1990s hip hop, especially cowbell samples resembling that of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. The genre draws from the dark, distortive techniques of the ...
Collins Obinna Chibueze (born May 9, 1995), better known by his stage name Shaboozey, is an American singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and record producer. [2] [3] His music combines hip hop, country, rock, and Americana.
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap and experimental hip hop[ 2]) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream. AllMusic defines it as comprising " hip hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass ...
The songs on the album are a blend of funk (Watkins), hip-hop (Lopes), and R&B (Thomas), similar to the new jack-swing sound popularized by producer Teddy Riley in the late 1980s. [14] The album was a critical and commercial success, being certified quadruple-platinum for shipments of four million copies in the United States.