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List of hip hop festivals

Index List of hip hop festivals

The following is an incomplete list of hip hop festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on hip hop music or other elements of hip hop culture. [1]

110 relations: Afropunk Festival, AllMusic, Atlanta, Australia, B-Boy Park, Beatboxing, Big beat, Big Day Out, Block party, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Breakdancing, Breakin' Convention, Brooklyn, California, Can't Stop Won't Stop (book), Central Macedonia, Cincinnati, City of Brussels, Concert tour, Connecticut, Couleur Café, Czech hip hop, Czech Republic, Dancehall, Deejay (Jamaican), Disc jockey, Disco, DMC World DJ Championships, Dub music, East Rutherford, New Jersey, Encyclopædia Britannica, Essence Music Festival, Frauenfeld, Freaknik, Fresh Island Festival, Funk, Governors Ball Music Festival, Graffiti, Hartford, Connecticut, Harvard Dictionary of Music, Helsinki, Hip hop, Hip Hop goes Theatre, Hip hop music, Hip-hop theater, Hradec Králové, Jingle Jam, Lika-Senj County, List of electronic music festivals, List of jazz festivals, ..., List of reggae festivals, London, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Lovebox Festival, Lyricist Lounge, Made in America Festival, Manchester, Tennessee, Master of ceremonies, Merriam-Webster, Miami, Minnesota, Movmnt, Music festival, Music genre, Neo soul, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York (state), New York City, Novalja, Ohio, Openair Frauenfeld, Ouagadougou, Outlook festival, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Paid Dues, Parklife (festival), Pemberton Festival, Pemberton, British Columbia, Performance poetry, Philadelphia, Prestwich, Pula, Rapping, Reggae, Rhythm and blues, Rock the Bells, Salzburg, Sampling (music), San Francisco, Scratching, Scribble Jam, Silverton, Pretoria, Soundset Music Festival, Southside Festival, Summer Jam, Supafest, Synthesizer, The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Trap music, Trinity International Hip Hop Festival, Tuttlingen, United States, Urban Beach Week, Urban Street Jam, Waga Hip Hop Festival, Young London into Music. Expand index (60 more) »

Afropunk Festival

The Afropunk Festival (commonly referred to as Afropunk or Afropunk Fest) is an annual arts festival that celebrates and unifies the cultural cornerstones of AFROPUNK through music, film, skate, and art.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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B-Boy Park

B-Boy Park is a Japanese hip hop festival that takes place every year in Tokyo.

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Beatboxing

Beatboxing (also beat boxing or b-boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

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Big beat

Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno.

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Big Day Out

The Big Day Out was an annual music festival that was held in five Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth, as well as Auckland, New Zealand.

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Block party

A block party or street party is a crowded party in which many members of a single community congregate, either to observe an event of some importance or simply for mutual enjoyment.

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Bonnaroo Music Festival

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four-day music festival developed and produced by Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.

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Breakin' Convention

Breakin’ Convention is an international hip-hop theatre festival based in London, England that was founded in 2004 and is produced annually by Sadler's Wells Theatre.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Can't Stop Won't Stop (book)

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.

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Central Macedonia

Central Macedonia (Κεντρική Μακεδονία, Kentrikí Makedonía) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, consisting of the central part of the geographical and historical region of Macedonia.

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Cincinnati

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City of Brussels

The City of Brussels (French: Ville de Bruxelles or alternatively Bruxelles-Ville, Dutch: Stad Brussel or Brussel-Stad) is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, and the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Concert tour

A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Couleur Café

Couleur Café Festival is a yearly urban contemporary music festival in Belgium, organised since 1990 and taking place at Tour & Taxis in the city of Brussels around the end of June or early July.

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Czech hip hop

The hip hop subculture in the Czech Republic emerged after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Deejay (Jamaican)

In Jamaican music, a deejay (DJ) is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and "toasts" to an instrumental riddim.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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DMC World DJ Championships

DMC World DJ Championships is an annual DJ competition hosted by Disco Mix Club (DMC) which began in 1985.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Essence Music Festival

The Essence Festival, known as "the party with a purpose", is an annual music festival which started in 1995 as a one-time event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Essence, a magazine aimed primarily towards African-American women.

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Frauenfeld

Frauenfeld is the capital of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

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Freaknik

Freaknik was an annual spring break meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, primarily of students from historically black colleges and universities.

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Fresh Island Festival

Fresh Island Festival is a hip hop music festival held at Zrće beach near the city of Novalja in Croatia.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Governors Ball Music Festival

The Governors Ball Music Festival (commonly known as Governors Ball or Gov Ball) is a multi-day music festival held on Randall's Island in New York City.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural of graffito: "a graffito", but "these graffiti") are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted, typically illicitly, on a wall or other surface, often within public view.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Harvard Dictionary of Music

The Harvard Dictionary of Music is a standard music reference book published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Hip Hop goes Theatre

Hip Hop goes Theatre is an international hip-hop theatre festival based in Salzburg, Austria, that was founded in 2008 and is produced annually by the NPO Urban Foundation.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hip-hop theater

Hip-hop theater is a form of theater that presents contemporary stories through the use of one or more of the four elements of hip-hop culture—b-boying, graffiti writing, MCing (rapping), and DJing.

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Hradec Králové

Hradec Králové (Königgrätz) is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Hradec Králové Region of Bohemia.

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Jingle Jam

Jingle Jam is the annual hip-hop concert held at the XL Center and sponsored by Hartford-based radio station Hot 93.7(WZMX-FM).

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Lika-Senj County

Lika-Senj County (Ličko-senjska županija) is a county in Croatia that includes most of the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island.

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List of electronic music festivals

The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitar and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (EDM).

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List of jazz festivals

Jazz has appeared in various festivals since the genre originated in African American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.

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List of reggae festivals

This is a list of notable reggae festivals by country.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Lovebox Festival

Lovebox is a two-day music festival.

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Lyricist Lounge

The Lyricist Lounge is a hip hop showcase of rappers, emcees, DJ's, and Graffiti artists.

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Made in America Festival

Made in America Festival is an annual music festival held in Philadelphia and formerly simultaneously held in Los Angeles.

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Manchester, Tennessee

Manchester is a city in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially known for its dictionaries.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Movmnt

movmnt magazine is an urban-leaning lifestyle magazine which was co-founded in 2006 by David Benaym and Danny Tidwell.

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Music festival

A music festival is a community event oriented towards live performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, or locality of musicians, or holiday.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Neo soul

Neo soul is a genre of popular music.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novalja

Novalja is a town in the north of the island of Pag in the Croatian part of Adriatic Sea.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Openair Frauenfeld

Openair Frauenfeld is an annual hip hop music festival that takes place in Frauenfeld in July.

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Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou (Mossi) is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation.

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Outlook festival

Outlook Festival is a musical event, started as a subsidiary of Leeds event SubDub, hosting all kinds of bass music held just outside the city of Pula, Croatia.

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Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival

The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival is a music festival held annually in San Francisco, California, at Golden Gate Park.

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Paid Dues

Paid Dues was an annual hip hop festival that took place in California, until the summer of 2007, when it was announced that the festival travel to multiple locations.

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Parklife (festival)

Parklife is an independent music festival held annually in Manchester, England.

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Pemberton Festival

The Pemberton Festival was a three-day summer music festival inaugurated in 2008.

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Pemberton, British Columbia

Pemberton is a village municipality north of Whistler in the Pemberton Valley of British Columbia in Canada, with a population of 2,574.

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Performance poetry

Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Prestwich

Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, north of Salford and south of Bury.

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Pula

Pula or Pola (Italian and Istro-Romanian: Pola; Colonia Pietas Iulia Pola Pollentia Herculanea; Slovene and Chakavian: Pulj, Hungarian: Póla, Polei, Ancient Greek: Πόλαι, Polae) is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia and the eighth largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 57,460 in 2011.

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Rapping

Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock the Bells

Rock the Bells was an annual hip-hop festival that originally took place in Southern California only, but has since toured throughout the world.

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Salzburg

Salzburg, literally "salt fortress", is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Salzburg state.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Scratching

Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds.

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Scribble Jam

Scribble Jam was an annual hip hop music festival hosted in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Silverton, Pretoria

Silverton is an eastern suburb of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Soundset Music Festival

Soundset Music Festival is a hip-hop music festival held yearly in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area over Memorial Day weekend.

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Southside Festival

The Southside Festival (simply known as Southside) is an annual music festival that takes place near Tuttlingen, Germany, usually every June.

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Summer Jam

Summer Jam is the annual hip-hop fest held in East Rutherford, New Jersey and sponsored by New York-based radio station Hot 97FM.

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Supafest

Supafest was an annual music festival held in Australia during April.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF) is an annual celebration of Hip-Hop music and culture.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη, Thessaloníki), also familiarly known as Thessalonica, Salonica, or Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Trap music

Trap is a style of popular music that developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s from Southern hip hop in the United States.

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Trinity International Hip Hop Festival

The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival is a free music festival that brings together Hip Hop artists from around the world.

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Tuttlingen

Tuttlingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Urban Beach Week

Urban Beach Week is a hip-hop festival held in Miami's South Beach over the Memorial Day weekend since the 1990s.

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Urban Street Jam

Urban Street Jam is an annual hip-hop culture festival that showcases music, art, dance, and fashion in the hip-hop community.

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Waga Hip Hop Festival

Waga Hip Hop is one of the major international hip hop festivals taking place in West Africa.

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Young London into Music

Young London: Into Music is an urban youth festival comprising five events taking place in the Olympic boroughs of London from June until August and first held in 2009.

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