Hip Hop
Hip Hop or hip-hop (music) is a musical genre of popular music developed in the United States in the 1970s by African Americans, Latinos, and Caribbean Americans living in the poor neighborhoods of the Bronx in New York City. Hip-hop music consists of stylized rhythmic music that is usually accompanied by rapping, rhythmic and rhymed speech that is spoken in a chant. Hip-hop music developed as part of hip-hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: emceeing/performing rap, DJing/scratching with vinyl turntables, breakdancing, and graffiti painting. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from recordings (or synthesized beats and sounds) and rhythmic beatboxing.
