hip-hop

noun

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

a style of music typically featuring rap, sample-based production, and pronounced beats

Collocates props³, rock³, block², rhyme², straight up², B.I., bling, bump, club, cold, crazy, crunk, DJ, drop, fuck with, gangsta, ghetto, go hard, hardcore, Hot 97, hyphy, kick, live, new school, old school, on lock, po-po, punk, rap, raw, ride, -iggity, shit, snap, stripes, sucker, trap music, wackness, word is bond, word up, word up, yo

Domains Music

Synonyms rap

Related concepts beat, DJ, MC

Timeline

1986-05-15 Run-D.M.C. "Hit It Run" [Raising Hell]
It's called gangsta hard rock, non-stop hip-hop
1986-12-01 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force "Renegades of Funk" [Planet Rock - The Album]
You know we're poppin', sockin', with a side of hip-hop
1986-12-08 Salt-n-Pepa "Beauty & The Beat" [Hot, Cool & Vicious]
Turn hip-hop clubs into concert halls

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hip-hop

adjective

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

of or relating to hip-hop music, culture, etc.

Collocates beat³, fiend², yo², 5-0, Audi 5000, bar, CPT, check, chill, club, cold, def, drop, drop, feel, flavor, hype, hype, I'mma, ish, kicks, loco, move, paid, rapper, rhyme, rhyme, rock, school, sleep on, soldier, sucker, thug, weight

Timeline

1984 Man Parrish "Boogie Down Bronx" feat. Freeze Force [Boogie Down Bronx]
This hip-hop music is here to stay
1984 Ice-T "Reckless" feat. Dave Storrs, The Glove [Breakin' Soundtrack]
As the glove cuts the rhythm to the hip-hop beat
1985-11-18 LL Cool J "I Can't Live Without My Radio" [Radio]
I'm a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd

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hip-hop

noun

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

a subculture originally organized around rapping, DJing, break-dancing, and graffiti in late 1970's New York City

Collocates boogie-down², back in the day, Chi-town, crack pipe, crew, drop science, fiend, fifth element, ghetto, mad, rhyme, roll up, shout-out, uptown, old school

Related concepts DJ, MC, rap

Timeline

1979-08-25 The Sugarhill Gang "Rapper's Delight" [Rapper's Delight]
I said a hip hop, the hibbit, the hippidibby hip hip hoppa, you don't stop
1980 The Sugarhill Gang "8th Wonder" [8th Wonder / Sugar Hill Groove]
I said ah, hip-hop, ah thanks a lot
1987-03-03 Boogie Down Productions "South Bronx" [Criminal Minded]
Now, way back in the days when hip-hop began

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