Hip Hop

Hip hop music or hip-hop music, also known as rap music, is a genre of popular music that originated in New York City in the 1970s. It consists of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats) that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing.  

 

Snow - Informer (1992) 

 

 

Break Machine - Street Dance (1983) 

 

 

Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds to Comply (1989) 

 

 

Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper (1994)

  

MC Tunes v's 808 State - The Only Rhyme That Bites (1990)

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - Let the Beat Hit 'Em (1991) 

Neneh Cherry - Manchild (1989) 

Run-DMC - It's Tricky (1987)

King Bee - Back by Dope Demand (1990) 

LL Cool J - I Need Love (1987)