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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 ]
The Bronx hip hop scene emerged in August 1973 when brother–sister duo DJ Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell hosted the first hip hop party in the Bronx, sparking the rise of the genre. [13] Hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the United States and subsequently the world. [ 14 ]
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 ...
Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida—often titled “The Big 5,” five states which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap ...
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [ 1] emceeing[ 2] or MCing[ 2][ 3]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular ". [ 4] It is usually performed over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. [ 4]
A hip hop montage is a subset of fast cutting used in film to portray a complex action through a rapid series of simple actions in fast motion, accompanied by sound effects. The technique was first given its name by Darren Aronofsky, who used the technique in his films Pi and Requiem for a Dream to portray drug use.
Pinoy hip hop. Filipino hip-hop or Pinoy hip hop (also known as Pinoy rap) is hip hop music performed by musicians of Filipino descent, both in the Philippines and overseas, especially by Filipino-Americans . The Philippines is known for having the first hip hop music scene in Asia [1] since the early 1980s, largely due to the country's ...
Freestyle, [ 10] or Latin freestyle[ 4] (initially called Latin hip hop) is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area, Philadelphia, and Miami, primarily among Black, Afro Latino, Hispanic Americans and Italian Americans in the 1980s. [ 2] It experienced its greatest popularity from the late 1980s until the ...