27 Facts About Hip-hop music

Hip hop music or hip-hop music, known as rap music, is a genre of popular music that originated in New York City in the 1970s.

Hip hop Hip-hop music was not officially recorded for play on radio or television until 1979, largely due to poverty during the genre's birth and lack of acceptance outside ghetto neighborhoods.

In 2017, rock Hip-hop music was usurped by hip hop as the most popular genre in the United States.

Universal Zulu Nation founder Afrika Bambaataa, known as "the Godfather", is credited with first using the term to describe the subculture in which the Hip-hop music belonged; although it is suggested that it was a derogatory term to describe the type of Hip-hop music.

Rap Hip-hop music has become by far the most celebrated expression of hip hop culture, due to being the easiest to market to a mass audience.

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Hip-hop music extended the beat of a record by using two record players, isolating the percussion "breaks" by using a mixer to switch between the two records.

Hip-hop music dubbed his dancers "break-boys" and "break-girls", or simply b-boys and b-girls.

The new style influenced Harry, and Blondie's later hit single from 1981 "Rapture" became the first single containing hip hop elements to hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100—the song itself is usually considered new wave and fuses heavy pop Hip-hop music elements, but there is an extended rap by Harry near the end.

The first sampler that was broadly adopted to create this new kind of Hip-hop music was the Mellotron used in combination with the TR-808 drum machine.

Roots of rapping are found in African American Hip-hop music and bear similarities to traditional African Hip-hop music, particularly that of the griots of West African culture.

Hip hop Hip-hop music was influenced by disco Hip-hop music, as disco emphasized the key role of the DJ in creating tracks and mixes for dancers, and old school hip hop often used disco tracks as beats.

Ironically, the rise of hip hop Hip-hop music played a role in the eventual decline in disco's popularity.

The DJ-based genre of electronic Hip-hop music behaved similarly, eventually evolving into underground styles known as house Hip-hop music in Chicago and techno in Detroit.

The mid-1980s marked a paradigm shift in the development of hip hop, with the introduction of samples from rock Hip-hop music, as demonstrated in the albums King of Rock and Licensed to Ill.

Hip hop Hip-hop music became commercially successful, as exemplified by the Beastie Boys' 1986 album Licensed to Ill, which was the first rap album to hit No 1 on the Billboard charts.

The Hip-hop music was experimental and the sampling drew on eclectic sources.

Many black rappers—including Ice-T and Sister Souljah—contend that they are being unfairly singled out because their Hip-hop music reflects deep changes in society not being addressed anywhere else in the public forum.

Glitch hop and wonky Hip-hop music evolved following the rise of trip hop, dubstep and intelligent dance Hip-hop music.

Glitch hop is a fusion genre of hip hop and glitch Hip-hop music that originated in the early to mid-2000s in the United States and Europe.

Wonky Hip-hop music is of the same glitchy style as glitch hop, but it was specifically noted for its melodies, rich with "mid-range unstable synths".

The tempo of the music is somewhat slower than hip-hop, around the speed of reggaeton.

West emerged the victor, selling nearly a million copies in the first week alone, proving that innovative rap Hip-hop music could be just as commercially viable as gangsta rap, if not more so.

Hip-hop music cites new jack swing producer Teddy Riley and funk artist Roger Troutman's use of the Talk Box as inspirations for his own use of Auto-Tune.

Trap Hip-hop music is a subgenre of Southern rap that originated in the early 1990s.

Hip-hop music has reached the cultural corridors of the globe and has been absorbed and reinvented around the world.

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Hip hop Hip-hop music expanded beyond the US, often blending local styles with hip hop.

Grime, a genre of Hip-hop music derived from UK Garage and drum and bass and influenced by hip hop, emerged in the early 2000s with artists such as Dizzee Rascal becoming successful.