variants
or less commonly hip hop
1
: a cultural movement associated especially with rap music
2
: the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap
also
: rap together with this music
hip-hop
adjective
Examples of hip-hop in a Sentence
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The South Bronx is known as the birthplace of hip-hop and graffiti.
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Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 20 Apr. 2024
The beef between Drake and what continues to be a strong sect of the hip-hop community grows deeper.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 20 Apr. 2024
Since then, it’s all gotten incredibly messy, starting with J. Cole recording an entire diss track about his erstwhile friend Lamar and then deciding to retract it and apologize — a fairly unprecedented move in hip-hop.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2024
Illmatic is high on many all-time greatest albums lists (in any genre), and in 2021, was the first hip-hop album inducted into the Library of Congress.
—C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2024
And on April 19, 1994, the poetic rhymer was crowned a prophetic child of hip-hop, one in a position to restore New York’s musical dominance.
—Earl Hopkins, SPIN, 19 Apr. 2024
Nearly 250,000 spectators attend the event in a regular year, which continues to evolve and introduce audiences to styles and tunes well outside the broad world that is jazz, with a bill that also takes in pop, hip-hop, Afrobeats, trip-hop, classic rock, soul and funk.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2024
Many of Milwaukee's Black residents and hip-hop and R&B fans grew up with Brown on the radio.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
With Organized Noize, Wade helped produce countless hits for OutKast and was a huge influence on hip-hop artists across generations.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 20 Apr. 2024
The beef between Drake and what continues to be a strong sect of the hip-hop community grows deeper.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 20 Apr. 2024
Since then, it’s all gotten incredibly messy, starting with J. Cole recording an entire diss track about his erstwhile friend Lamar and then deciding to retract it and apologize — a fairly unprecedented move in hip-hop.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2024
Illmatic is high on many all-time greatest albums lists (in any genre), and in 2021, was the first hip-hop album inducted into the Library of Congress.
—C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2024
And on April 19, 1994, the poetic rhymer was crowned a prophetic child of hip-hop, one in a position to restore New York’s musical dominance.
—Earl Hopkins, SPIN, 19 Apr. 2024
Nearly 250,000 spectators attend the event in a regular year, which continues to evolve and introduce audiences to styles and tunes well outside the broad world that is jazz, with a bill that also takes in pop, hip-hop, Afrobeats, trip-hop, classic rock, soul and funk.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2024
Many of Milwaukee's Black residents and hip-hop and R&B fans grew up with Brown on the radio.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
With Organized Noize, Wade helped produce countless hits for OutKast and was a huge influence on hip-hop artists across generations.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
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