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828 relations: A cappella, A Tribe Called Quest, Aaliyah, Accompaniment, Adolf Hitler, Adult Swim, Aesop Rock, African American Review, African Americans, African hip hop, African-American music, Afrika Bambaataa, Afro-Brazilians, Afrobeat, Afrocentrism, Akai, Akai MPC, Akon, Alamar, Albanian hip hop, Algerian hip hop, All Eyez on Me, AllMusic, AM broadcasting, Ambitionz az a Ridah, American popular music, Amsterdam, Angie Martinez, Angie Stone, Aphex Twin, Arabesque (Turkish music), Arabic hip hop, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arrested Development (group), Arsonists (hip hop group), Art Blakey, Arthur Baker (producer), Articolo 31, Ashanti (singer), Asian hip hop, Atlanta, Atlanta hip hop, ATLiens, Australian hip hop, Austrian hip hop, Auto-Tune, Azerbaijani hip hop, B-Real, B.G. (rapper), B.o.B, ... Expand index (778 more) »
- Hip hop
- Music of New York City
- Musical improvisation
A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
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A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group formed in Queens, New York City, in 1985, Red Bull Music Academy.
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Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), known as Aaliyah, was an American singer and actress.
Accompaniment
Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
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Adult Swim
Adult Swim (stylized as since 2003, and also abbreviated as) is an American adult-oriented television programming block aired by the American basic cable channel Cartoon Network during the evening, prime time, and late-night dayparts.
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Aesop Rock
Ian Matthias Bavitz (born June 5, 1976), better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American rapper and producer from Long Island, New York.
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African American Review
African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of essays on African-American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews.
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African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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African hip hop
Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread African American influence.
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African-American music
African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Hip hop music and African-American music are American styles of music.
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Afrika Bambaataa
Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York.
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Afro-Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians (afro-brasileiros) are Brazilians who have predominantly sub-Saharan African ancestry (see "preto").
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Afrobeat
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk) is a Nigerian music genre that involves the combination of West African musical styles from Ghana and Nigeria but mainly Nigeria, such as the traditional Yoruba and Igbo music and highlife, with American funk, jazz, and soul influences.
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Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism is a worldview that is centered on the history of people of African descent or a biased view that favors it over non-African civilizations.
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Akai
Akai (赤井) is a Hong Kong manufacturer of consumer electronics.
Akai MPC
The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards.
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Akon
Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), known mononymously as Akon, is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and businessman.
Alamar
For the film see Alamar (film) Alamar, also known as Alamar-Playa, is a district in east part of the city of La Habana in Cuba, part of the municipio of Habana del Este.
Albanian hip hop
Albanian hip hop refers to hip hop from artists from Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and surrounding areas where the Albanian language is spoken.
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Algerian hip hop
Algerian hip hop music as a genre includes the Hip Hop music of both native Algerians and Algerians abroad.
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All Eyez on Me
All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac and the last to be released during his lifetime.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.
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Ambitionz az a Ridah
"Ambitionz az a Ridah" is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his fourth studio album All Eyez on Me (1996).
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American popular music
American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Hip hop music and American popular music are American styles of music.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
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Angie Martinez
Angela Martinez (born January 9, 1971) is an American-Puerto Rican radio personality, podcaster, former rapper, and actress.
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Angie Stone
Angela Laverne Brown (born December 18, 1961) known professionally as Angie Stone, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer.
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ.
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Arabesque (Turkish music)
Arabesque (Arabesk) is a style of Turkish music popular in Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
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Arabic hip hop
Arabic hip-hop is a segment of hip hop music performed in the Arabic-speaking world. Hip hop music and Arabic hip hop are hip hop.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action films.
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Arrested Development (group)
Arrested Development is an American hip hop group, that was formed in Atlanta in 1988.
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Arsonists (hip hop group)
Arsonists are an underground hip hop group.
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Art Blakey
Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
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Arthur Baker (producer)
Arthur Baker (born April 22, 1955) is an American record producer and DJ best known for his work with hip hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa and Planet Patrol, as well as British group New Order.
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Articolo 31
Articolo 31 is a band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1990 by J-Ax and DJ Jad, combining hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.
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Ashanti (singer)
Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas-Haynes (born October 13, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter and actress.
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Asian hip hop
Asian hip hop is a heterogeneous musical genre that covers all hip hop music as recorded and produced by artists of Asian origin.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Atlanta hip hop
Although the music scene of Atlanta is rich and varied, the city's production of hip-hop music has been especially noteworthy, acclaimed, and commercially successful.
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ATLiens
ATLiens is the second studio album by the American hip hop duo Outkast.
Australian hip hop
Australian Hip-Hop traces its origins to the early 1980s and was initially largely inspired by Hip-Hop and other urban musical genres from the United States.
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Austrian hip hop
Austrian hip hop is not a genre of hip hop music, but covers all hip hop music from Austria.
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Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune, or autotune, is an audio processor software released on September 19, 1997 by the American company Antares Audio Technologies.
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Azerbaijani hip hop
Azerbaijani hip hop (Azərbaycan hip-hopu) is the musical genre which became popular in Azerbaijan in mid-1990s.
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B-Real
Louis Mario Freese (born June 2, 1970), known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper.
B.G. (rapper)
Christopher Noel Dorsey (born September 3, 1980), better known by his stage name B.G. (short for Baby Gangsta), is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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B.o.B
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. (born November 15, 1988), known professionally as B.o.B, is an American rapper, singer, and record producer.
B.U.G. Mafia
B.U.G. Mafia (an abbreviation for "Black Underground Mafia"), is a Romanian hip hop group from Pantelimon, Bucharest, widely regarded as one of the seminal acts of gangsta rap in Romania.
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Bad Balance
Bad Balance is a Russian rap group considered to be one of the first rap acts in USSR.
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Bad Boy Records
Bad Boy Entertainment, doing business as Bad Boy Records, is an American record label founded in 1993 by Sean "Puffy" Combs.
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Baltimore club
Baltimore Club, also called B'more Club, B'more House or simply B'more, is a music genre that fuses breakbeat and house.
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Bass drum
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
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Bass instrument
A bass instrument is a musical instrument that produces tones in the low-pitched range C2–C4.
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Bassline
Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Beale Street
Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately.
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Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were an American hip hop/rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1981.
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Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
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Beat juggling
Beat juggling is a deejaying and turntablism technique in which two records are used to prolong an existing beat, or to create a new one.
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Beat Street
Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s.
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Beatboxing
Beatboxing (also beat 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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Beatmatching
Beatmatching or pitch cue is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or time stretching an upcoming track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track, and to adjust them such that the beats (and, usually, the bars) are synchronized—e.g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.
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Bebop
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States.
Belgian hip hop
Belgian hip hop music has a few rappers stemming from Africa and Italy.
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Belly (rapper)
Ahmad Balshe (أحمد بلشي; born 7 April 1984), known professionally as Belly, is a Palestinian-Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, with a population of 6 million.
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Benelux
The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux; Benelux-Unioun) or Benelux is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Beninese hip hop
Hip hop music is a genre developed in the 1970s by African Americans in New York City.
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Beogradski Sindikat
Beogradski Sindikat (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдски Синдикат, English: Belgrade Syndicate) is a Serbian hip-hop collective from Belgrade, Serbia.
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BET
Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting Black American audiences.
Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.
Big Daddy Kane
Antonio Hardy (born September 10, 1968), better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper, producer and actor who began his career in 1986 as a member of the Juice Crew.
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Big L
Lamont Coleman (May 30, 1974February 15, 1999), known professionally as Big L, was an American rapper.
Big Pun
Christopher Lee Rios (November 10, 1971 – February 7, 2000), better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was an American rapper.
Big Youth
Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica),Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books, better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Birdman (rapper)
Bryan Christopher Williams (Brooks; February 15, 1969), better known by his stage names Birdman or Baby, is an American rapper and record executive.
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Black British people
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.
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Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo.
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Black Noise (group)
Black Noise music entertainment is a hip-hop crew hailing from the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa, which gained street popularity, primarily after the group chose to reach out to Cape Flats youth with the inclusion of members from Mitchell's Plain.
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Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
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Black Thought
Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1971), better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper, singer, actor and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group The Roots, which he co-founded with drummer Questlove.
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Block party
A block party or street party is a party in which many members of a single community congregate, either to observe an event of some importance or simply for mutual solidarity and enjoyment.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Hip hop music and Blues are African-American cultural history, American styles of music, musical improvisation and radio formats.
Bo Diddley
Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.
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Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of the brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, formed initially as a group in 1986 before becoming a duo in the 1990s.
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Bob Marley and the Wailers
Bob Marley and the Wailers (previously known as the Wailers and prior to that the Wailing Rudeboys, the Wailing Wailers and the Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band.
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Bobby Robinson (record producer)
Morgan Clyde "Bobby" Robinson (April 16, 1917 – January 7, 2011) was an American independent record producer and songwriter in New York City, most active from the 1950s through the mid-1980s.
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Body Count (album)
Body Count is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Body Count, released on March 10, 1992, by Sire Records.
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (formerly known as B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e and also known as Bone Thugs) is an American hip hop group composed of rappers Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Flesh-n-Bone.
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Bongo Flava
Bongo Flava is a nickname for Tanzanian music.
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Booba
Élie Thitia Yaffa (born 9 December 1976), better known under his stage name Booba, is a French rapper.
Boogie Down Productions
Boogie Down Productions (BDP) was an American hip hop group originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock.
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Boom Boom Pow
"Boom Boom Pow" is a song recorded by American group the Black Eyed Peas for their fifth studio album The E.N.D. (2009).
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Boomba music
Boomba music, also referred to as kapuka (due to the beat pattern; not to be confused with kapuka rap), is a form of hip pop music popular in Kenya.
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Bosnian and Herzegovinian hip hop
Bosnian hip hop is a style of music made in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Bounce music
Bounce music is a style of New Orleans hip hop music that is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s in the city's housing projects.
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Brainpower
Brainpower (born Gerrit-Jan Mulder; February 5, 1975) is a Dutch rapper.
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Brand Nubian
Brand Nubian is an American hip hop group from New Rochelle, New York, composed of three emcees (Grand Puba, Sadat X and Lord Jamar), and formerly three DJs (DJ Alamo, DJ Sincere, and DJ Stud Doogie).
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Brasília
Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District, located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region.
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Brazilian hip hop
Brazilian hip hop is a national music genre in Brazil.
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Break (music)
In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.
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Breakbeat
Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B.
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Breakdancing
Breakdancing, also called b-boying, b-girling or breaking, is a style of street dance originated by African Americans in the Bronx, New York City, United States.
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British Sri Lankans
British Sri Lankans are an ethnic group referring to British people who can trace their ancestry to Sri Lanka.
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Bucharest
Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.
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Buckwild (record producer)
Anthony Best (born March 20, 1968) professionally known as Buckwild, is an American hip hop producer.
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Bulgarian hip hop
Hip hop is one of the most popular music styles in Bulgaria, especially among young people.
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Burmese hip hop
Burmese/Myanmar hip hop is one of the most successful music genres in Myanmar today, and perhaps the most popular form of music among the urban youth of Yangon and Mandalay.
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Bushido (rapper)
Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi (born 28 September 1978), better known by his alias Bushido, is a German rapper, hip-hop producer, and entrepreneur.
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Byron Hurt
Byron Patrick Hurt (born December 31, 1969) is an American activist, lecturer, writer, and award-winning documentary filmmaker.
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C-pop
C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music, a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (the Greater China region).
Cage (rapper)
Christian Palko (born May 4, 1973), better known by his stage name Cage, is an American rapper from Middletown, New York.
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Call and response
Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.
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Cam'ron
Cam'ron Giles (born February 4, 1976), better known by his stage name Cam'ron, is an American rapper.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canadian hip hop
The Canadian hip hop scene was established in the 1980s.
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Cannibal Ox
Cannibal Ox is an American hip hop duo from Harlem, New York, United States.
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Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
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Cartel (rap group)
Cartel is a 1995 Turkish hip hop CD project involving three groups of rappers from different German cities, which received attention and popularity in both Turkey and Germany.
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Cash Money Records
Cash Money Records is an American record label founded in 1991 by brothers Ronald "Slim" Williams and Bryan "Baby" Williams.
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Celtic fusion
Celtic fusion is an umbrella term for any modern music which incorporates influences considered "Celtic", or Celtic music which incorporates modern music.
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Cerrone
Marc CerroneDaryl Easlea, "Supernature Boy", Record Collector, #502, February 2020, pp.60-63 (born 24 May 1952) is a French disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of concerts.
Chaka Khan
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer.
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Chic (band)
Chic (stylized CHIC), currently called Nile Rodgers & Chic, is an American disco band that was formed in 1972 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.
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Chicago hip hop
Chicago hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the late 1980s in the form of hip house.
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Chicago Reader
The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.
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Chicano rap
Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop that embodies aspects of the Mexican American or Chicano culture.
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Chinese hip hop
Chinese hip hop, also known as C-Rap, is a subgenre of Chinese music.
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Chopped and screwed
Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a music genre and technique of remixing music that involves slowing down the tempo and DJing.
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Christian hip hop
Christian hip hop (originally gospel rap, also known as Christian rap, gospel hip hop or holy hip hop) is a cross-genre of contemporary Christian music and hip hop music.
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Christmas Wrapping
"Christmas Wrapping" is a Christmas song by the American new wave band the Waitresses.
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Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, best known as the leader and frontman of the hip hop group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav.
CL Smooth
Corey Brent Penn Sr. (born October 8, 1968), known by his stage name CL Smooth, is an American rapper.
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Coke La Rock
Coke La Rock (aka Coco La Rock; born April 24, 1955) is an American rapper from New York City who is sometimes credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop.
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Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia is the capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina.
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Coming of age
Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult.
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Company Flow
Company Flow was an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York City, consisting of Bigg Jus, El-P and Mr. Len.
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Complex Networks
Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City.
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Conspicuous consumption
In sociology and in economics, the term conspicuous consumption describes and explains the consumer practice of buying and using goods of a higher quality, price, or in greater quantity than practical.
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Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music. Hip hop music and Contemporary R&B are American styles of music.
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Control Machete
Control Machete is a Mexican hip hop group from Monterrey, Nuevo León.
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Cop Killer (song)
"Cop Killer" is a song by American heavy metal band Body Count.
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Country rap
Country rap (country hip hop and sometimes hick hop) is a fusion genre of popular music, blending country music with hip hop–style singing or rapping.
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Crank That (Soulja Boy)
"Crank That (Soulja Boy)" is the debut single by American rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em.
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Criminal Minded
Criminal Minded is the debut studio album by hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, released on March 3, 1987 by B-Boy Records.
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Crunk
Crunk is a subgenre of southern hip hop that emerged in the early 1990s and gained mainstream success during the early to mid 2000s. Hip hop music and Crunk are 2000s fads and trends.
Cuban hip hop
Hip hop music arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami.
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
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Culture of Montenegro
The culture of Montenegro is as pluralistic and diverse as its history and geographical position would suggest.
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Cumbia rap
Cumbia rap is a spin-off of the original cumbia genre.
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Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Southern Brazil.
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Curtis (50 Cent album)
Curtis is the third studio album by American rapper 50 Cent.
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Cybotron (American band)
Cybotron is an American electro music group formed in 1980 by Juan Atkins and Richard "3070" Davis in Detroit.
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Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California, formed in 1988.
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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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D.I.T.C.
The Diggin' in the Crates Crew, commonly known as D.I.T.C., is an American hip hop collective formed in 1992 in New York City.
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D4L
D4L (an acronym of Down for Life) was an American hip hop group formed in 2003, composed of Atlanta-based rappers Fabo, Mook-B, Stoney, and Shawty Lo.
Dabrye
Tadd Mullinix or Dabrye is an American musician from Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, also known by the aliases James T. Cotton and SK-1.
Daddy Yankee
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez (born February 3, 1976), known professionally as Daddy Yankee, is a Puerto Rican former rapper who rose to worldwide prominence in 2004 with the song "Gasolina".
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Daily Collegian
The Daily Collegian is a student-produced news outlet, with a newspaper and website, that is published independently at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
David Toop
David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, curator, and emeritus professor.
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Day 'n' Nite
"Day 'n' Nite" is the debut single by American rapper Kid Cudi.
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De La Soul
De La Soul is an American hip hop group formed in 1988 in the village of Amityville on Long Island, New York.
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Death Row Records
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey.
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Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie.
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Dee Nasty
Daniel Bigeault (born 1960), better known as Dee Nasty, is a French DJ, record producer and rapper.
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Definitive Jux
Definitive Jux was a record label based in New York City.
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Dem Franchize Boyz
Dem Franchize Boyz was an American hip hop group from Atlanta, signed to E1 Music.
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Dennis Alcapone
Dennis Alcapone, born Dennis Smith, is a Jamaican reggae DJ and producer.
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Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was an American musical girl group whose final lineup comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams.
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Diam's
Mélanie Georgiades (born 25 July 1980, in Nicosia), better known by her stage name Diam's, is a retired French rapper of Greek-speaking Cypriot origin.
Diamond D
Joseph Kirkland (born April 5, 1968), better known by his stage name Diamond D (or simply Diamond), is an American hip hop MC and record producer from The Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew, abbreviated as D.I.T.C.
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Die Fantastischen Vier
Die Fantastischen Vier ("The Fantastic Four"), often shortened to Fanta 4, is a German hip hop band from Stuttgart.
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Digable Planets
Digable Planets is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987.
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Dilated Peoples
Dilated Peoples is an American Los Angeles-based hip hop trio, composed of rapper and record producer Evidence, rapper Rakaa, and Beat Junkies deejay and record producer DJ Babu.
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Dillinger (musician)
Lester Bullock (born 25 June 1953), better known by the stage name Dillinger, is a Jamaican reggae artist.
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Dirty rap
Dirty rap (also known as porno rap, porn rap, sex rap, booty rap, or pornocore) is a subgenre of hip hop music that contains lyrical content revolving mainly around sexually explicit subjects.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Hip hop music and Disco are American styles of music.
Dizzee Rascal
Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a British rapper and MC. He is often credited as a pioneer of British hip hop and grime music and was ranked by Complex as one of the greatest British rappers of all time. His work has also incorporated elements of UK garage, bassline and R&B.
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DJ Disco Wiz
Luis Cedeño (born August 11, 1961), more commonly known as DJ Disco Wiz is an American DJ.
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DJ Hollywood
DJ Hollywood (born Anthony Holloway; December 10, 1954) is an American MC and disc jockey.
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DJ Kool Herc
Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973.
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DJ Mag
DJ Magazine (also known as DJ Mag) is a British monthly magazine dedicated to electronic dance music and DJs.
DJ mixer
A DJ mixer is a type of audio mixing console used by disc jockeys (DJs) to control and manipulate multiple audio signals. Hip hop music and dJ mixer are hip hop.
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DJ Muggs
Lawrence Muggerud (born January 28, 1968) professionally known by his stage name DJ Muggs, is an American DJ, audio engineer and record producer.
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DJ Premier
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), known professionally as DJ Premier (also known as Preemo), is an American record producer and DJ.
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DMX
Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 – April 9, 2021), known professionally as DMX, was an American rapper and actor.
Doggystyle
Doggystyle is the debut studio album by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
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Don Cherry (trumpeter)
Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist.
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Don Omar
William Omar Landrón Rivera (born February 10, 1978), known professionally as Don Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.
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Doo-wop
Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Hip hop music and doo-wop are African-American cultural history and American styles of music.
Dozens (game)
The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up.
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Dr. Dre
Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr.
Drake (musician)
Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986), known mononymously as Drake, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and actor.
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Drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers.
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Drum beat
A drum beat or drum pattern is a rhythmic pattern, or repeated rhythm establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drum kits and other percussion instruments.
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Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
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Dub music
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s.
Dutch hip hop
Dutch hip hop or Nederhop ("Netherhop") is hip hop / rap music created by Dutch speaking musicians in the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium).
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E-mu SP-1200
The E-mu SP-1200 is a sampling drum machine designed by Dave Rossum and released in August 1987 by E-mu Systems.
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East Coast hip hop
East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s. Hip hop music and East Coast hip hop are music of New York City.
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East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry
The East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry was a dispute between artists and fans of the East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop scenes in the United States, especially from the mid-1990s.
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Echo
In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound.
Edo Maajka
Edin Osmić (born 22 December 1978), better known by his stage name Edo Maajka, is a Bosnian rapper, record producer and songwriter.
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Egyptian hip hop
Egyptian hip hop is a form of hip hop music in Egypt that draws its inspiration from local, regional and global events.
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El-P
Jaime Meline (born March 2, 1975), better known by the stage name El-P (shortened from his previous stage name El Producto), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.
Electro (music)
Electro (or electro-funk).
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, music producer and songwriter.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is the debut studio album by the American hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released on November 9, 1993, by Loud Records and RCA Records.
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Eric B. & Rakim
Eric B. & Rakim were an American hip hop duo formed on Long Island, New York, in 1986, composed of DJ Eric B. and rapper Rakim.
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Erykah Badu
Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), known professionally as Erykah Badu, is an American singer and songwriter.
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European hip hop
European hip hop is hip hop music created by European musicians.
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Extince
Peter Kops (born 1967), known professionally as Extince (also known as "Exter-O-naldus" or "De Exter"), is one of the first Dutch language rappers, or Dutch Hip-Hoppers to achieve a top-40 hit in the mainstream Dutch music charts. His hit song "Spraakwater" rose into the top-ten, and was a historic breakthrough for Dutch-language rap & hip-hop – even more than for the artist himself.
Fabolous
John David Jackson (born November 18, 1977), better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper.
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Fact (UK magazine)
Fact is a music publication that launched in the UK in 2003.
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Fat Joe
Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper.
Fatback Band
The Fatback Band (later, simply Fatback) is an American funk and disco band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Favela
Favela is an umbrella name for several types of working-class neighborhoods in Brazil.
Fear of a Black Planet
Fear of a Black Planet is the third studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.
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Fight the Power (Public Enemy song)
"Fight the Power" is a song by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released as a single in the summer of 1989 on Motown Records.
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Finger snapping
Snapping (or clicking) one's fingers is the act of creating a snapping or clicking sound with one's fingers.
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Finnish hip hop
Finnish hip hop or rap (suomiräp, räp) or (suomirap, rap) is a variant of hip hop music from Finland.
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Flag of Haiti
The flag of Haiti (drapeau d'Haïti, drapo Ayiti) is the national flag of the Republic of Haiti.
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Fler
Patrick Losenský (born 3 April 1982), known professionally as Fler, is a German rapper and the CEO of Maskulin Music Group.
Flo Rida
Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16, 1979), better known by his stage name Flo Rida, is an American rapper and singer.
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Florida breaks
Florida breaks, which may also be referred to as The Orlando Sound, Orlando breaks, or The Breaks, is a genre of breakbeat dance music that originated in the central region of Florida, United States.
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Flying Lotus
Steven D. Bingley-Ellison (born October 7, 1983), known by his stage name Flying Lotus or sometimes FlyLo, is an American record producer, DJ, filmmaker and rapper from Los Angeles.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Fordham University
Fordham University is a private Jesuit research university in New York City.
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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francis Magalona
Francis Michael Durango Magalona (October 4, 1964 – March 6, 2009), also known as Francis M., was a Filipino rapper, singer, songwriter, television personality, actor, and entrepreneur.
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Freeez
Freeez were an English electronic music group, initially known as one of the UK's main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s before transitioning to an electro style.
Freestyle Fellowship
Freestyle Fellowship is an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California.
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Freestyle music
Freestyle, or Latin freestyleKlanten, Robert (1995).
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Freestyle rap
Freestyle is a style of hip hop music where an artist improvises an unwritten verse from the head, with or without instrumental beats, in which lyrics are recited with no particular subject or structure.
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French hip hop
French hip hop or French rap (rap français), is the hip hop music style developed in French-speaking countries.
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Frenkie
Adnan Hamidović (born 31 May 1982), better known by his stage name Frenkie, is a Bosnian rapper from Tuzla.
Frost (rapper)
Arturo R. Molina Jr. (born May 31, 1962), better known as Frost (originally Kid Frost), is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Los Angeles.
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Fuck tha Police
"Fuck tha Police" is a protest song by American hip hop group N.W.A that appears on the 1988 album Straight Outta Compton as well as on the ''N.W.A's Greatest Hits'' compilation.
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Fugees
Fugees (sometimes The Fugees) are an American hip hop trio formed in 1990 in South Orange, New Jersey.
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. Hip hop music and Funk are African-American cultural history and American styles of music.
Funk carioca
Funk carioca, also known as favela funk, in other parts of the world as baile funk and Brazilian funk, or even simply funk, is a hip hop-influenced music genre from Rio de Janeiro, blending the rap subgenres of Miami bass and gangsta rap.
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Funk You Up
"Funk You Up" is a 1979 old school hip hop song recorded by the Sequence for Sugar Hill Records.
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Funky 4 + 1
Funky 4 + 1 was an American hip hop group from The Bronx, New York, composed of Jazzy Jeff, Sha-Rock (b. Sharon Green), D.J. Breakout, Guy Williams, Keith Keith, The Voice of K.K. and Rodney Stone.
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G-funk
G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s.
G-Unit
G-Unit (short for Guerilla Unit) was an American hip hop group formed by longtime friends and East Coast rappers 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, and Lloyd Banks.
Gambian hip hop
The Gambian hip hop scene is a relatively new scene in African hip hop which developed in the mid-1990s and was heavily influenced by American hip hop and Senegalese hip hop.
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Gang
A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.
Gang Starr
Gang Starr was an American hip hop duo, consisting of Houston-born record producer DJ Premier and Boston, Massachusetts rapper Guru.
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Gangsta rap
Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality of the world and street hustlers. Hip hop music and gangsta rap are 1990s fads and trends, 2000s fads and trends, 2010s fads and trends and music of New York City.
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Gangster
A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.
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Genge
Genge music is a genre of hip-hop music influenced by dancehall, originating from Nairobi, Kenya in the 1990s.
Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.
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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 19th Baron de Ros, (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet who exerted considerable political power during the reign of Charles II of England.
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German hip hop
German hip hop (locally known as Deutschrap, Deutsch meaning German) refers to hip hop music produced in Germany.
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Get Rich or Die Tryin is the debut studio album by American rapper 50 Cent.
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Geto Boys
Geto Boys (originally spelled Ghetto Boys) was an American hip hop group originally formed in Houston, Texas.
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Gettin' Jiggy wit It
"Gettin' Jiggy wit It" is a song by American rapper and actor Will Smith, released as the third single from his debut solo album, Big Willie Style (1997).
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Ghetto house
Ghetto house or booty house is a subgenre of house music which started being recognized as a distinct style from around 1992 onwards.
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Ghettotech
Ghettotech (also known as Detroit club) is a genre of electronic music originating from Detroit.
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Ghostface Killah
Dennis David Coles (born May 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and a member of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
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Gil Scott-Heron
Gilbert Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American jazz poet, singer, musician, and author known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Gin and Juice
"Gin and Juice" is a song by American rapper Snoop Dogg.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
Glitch (music)
Glitch is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the 1990s which is distinguished by the deliberate use of glitch-based audio media and other sonic artifacts.
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Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo composed of singer-songwriter CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse.
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Go-go
Go-go is a subgenre of funk music with an emphasis on specific rhythmic patterns, and live audience call and response. Hip hop music and Go-go are American styles of music.
Golden age hip hop
Golden age hip hop refers to mainstream hip hop music created from the mid or mid-late 1980s to the early or early-mid 1990s, particularly by artists and musicians originating from the New York metropolitan area.
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Good Times (Chic song)
"Good Times" is a disco soul song by American R&B band Chic from their third album Risqué (1979).
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Goodie Mob
Goodie Mob is an American hip hop group based in Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of CeeLo Green, Khujo, T-Mo, and Big Gipp.
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Graduation (album)
Graduation is the third studio album by the American rapper Kanye West released on September 11, 2007, through Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records.
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Graffiti
Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.
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Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an award presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception." Commonly known as "The Big Award", Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammy Awards, and is one of the four general field categories alongside Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year that have been presented annually since the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959.
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums with rapping at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Grand Wizzard Theodore
Theodore Livingston (born March 5, 1963), better known as Grand Wizzard Theodore, is an American musician and DJ.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were an American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978.
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Grant Green
Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.
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Greek hip hop
Greek hip hop (Ελληνικό χιπ χοπ), is the chief genre of rap music in Greece.
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Greg Wilson (DJ)
Greg Wilson (born 1960) is an English DJ and producer, associated with both the early 1980s electro scene in Manchester and the current disco/re-edit movement.
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Grime music
Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in London in the early 2000s.
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Grindie
Grindie, also known as grime-indie or grime indie, is a form of music that emerged in early 2006.
Griot
A griot (Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: ߖߋߟߌ, djeli or djéli in French spelling); kevel or kewel / okawul; gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.
Grip It! On That Other Level
Grip It! On That Other Level is the second studio album by the Houston, Texas based hip-hop group, the Ghetto Boys (later spelled Geto Boys), released on March 12, 1989, on Rap-A-Lot Records.
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Grizzly Bear (band)
Grizzly Bear is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002.
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Groove (music)
In music, groove is the sense of an effect ("feel") of changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm or sense of "swing".
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Gucci Mane
Radric Delantic Davis (born February 12, 1980), known professionally as Gucci Mane, is an American rapper and record executive.
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H.I.P. H.O.P.
H.I.P. H.O.P. was France's first television show and first regular nationwide weekly show in the world to be dedicated to the hip hop culture.
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Hadouken! (band)
Hadouken! were a British dance-punk band formed in London in 2006 by singer, songwriter and producer James Smith and synth player Alice Spooner along with guitarist Daniel "Pilau" Rice, bassist Christopher Purcell and drummer Nick Rice.
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
Haitian Creole
Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen,; créole haïtien), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population.
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Haitian hip hop
Rap Kreyòl started in Haiti in the early ‘80s by the Late Great Master Dji, who witnessed how American Hip Hop gave birth to French Hip Hop while living in France.
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Half-time (music)
In popular music, half-time is a type of meter and tempo that alters the rhythmic feel by essentially doubling the tempo resolution or metric division/level in comparison to common-time.
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Halloween
Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.
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Hardcore hip hop
Hardcore hip hop (also hardcore rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s.
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Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.
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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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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hashim
Hashim (هاشم) is a common male Arabic given name.
Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
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Hawaiian sovereignty movement
The Hawaiian sovereignty movement (ke ea Hawaiʻi) is a grassroots political and cultural campaign to reestablish an autonomous or independent nation or kingdom of Hawaii out of a desire for sovereignty, self-determination, and self-governance.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. Hip hop music and Heavy metal music are American styles of music.
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Hell on Earth (Mobb Deep album)
Hell on Earth is the third studio album by the American hip hop duo Mobb Deep, released on November 19, 1996, through Loud and RCA Records.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.
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Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music.
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Here Comes the Judge (Pigmeat Markham song)
"Here Comes the Judge" is a song by American soul and comedy singer Pigmeat Markham, first released as a single in 1968 on the Chess label.
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Hi-hat
A hi-hat (hihat, high-hat, etc.) is a combination of two cymbals and a pedal, all mounted on a metal stand.
Hip hop (culture)
Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, starting in the Bronx, New York City. Hip hop music and hip hop (culture) are African-American cultural history and hip hop.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Hip hop music and hip hop music are 1990s fads and trends, 2000s fads and trends, 2010s fads and trends, 2020s fads and trends, African-American cultural history, American styles of music, hip hop, music of New York City, musical improvisation and radio formats.
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Hip hop music in the Pacific Northwest
Northwest hip hop is hip hop or rap music that originates from the Pacific Northwest of North America, encompassing major cities such as Portland (Oregon), Seattle (Washington), and other towns.
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Hip Hop Pantsula
Jabulani Tsambo (14 September 1980 – 24 October 2018), better known by his stage name Hip Hop Pantsula, later shortened to HHP, was a South African Motswako rapper (Motswakolista) who performed in several languages, mostly in Setswana.
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Hip hop production
Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio. Hip hop music and hip hop production are hip hop.
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Hip hop soul
Hip hop soul is a subgenre of contemporary R&B music, most popular during the early and mid 1990s, which fuses R&B or soul singing with hip hop musical production. Hip hop music and hip hop soul are American styles of music.
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Hip hop tuga
Portuguese hip hop (Hip hop português), more commonly called hip hop tuga ("tuga" here being a slang for "Portuguese"), is the Portuguese variety of hip hop music.
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Hip house
Hip house, also known as rap house or house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip hop music, that originated in both London, United Kingdom and Chicago, United States in the mid-to-late 1980s. Hip hop music and hip house are American styles of music.
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Hiplife
Hiplife is a Ghanaian musical style that fuses Ghanaian culture and hip hop.
Home Invasion (album)
Home Invasion is the fifth studio album by American rapper Ice-T, released on March 23, 1993, via /Priority Records.
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Hook (music)
A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener." The term generally applies to popular music, especially rock, R&B, hip hop, dance, and pop.
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Horrorcore
Horrorcore, also called horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, death rap, or murder rap is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery.
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House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. Hip hop music and House music are 1990s fads and trends and American styles of music.
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House of Pain
House of Pain was an American hip hop trio that released three albums in the 1990s.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
Hudson Mohawke
Ross Matthew Birchard (born 11 February 1986), better known by the stage name Hudson Mohawke, is a Scottish producer, composer, and DJ from Glasgow.
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Hungarian hip hop
Popular Hungarian hip hop is popular among the inner city/urban population in Hungary.
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Hyperdub
Hyperdub is a British, London-based electronic music record label and former webzine, founded by Steve Goodman, a.k.a. Kode9.
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Hyphy
The term hyphy is an Oakland, California slang meaning "hyperactive".
I Feel for You
"I Feel for You" is a song written by American musician Prince that originally appeared on his 1979 self-titled album.
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I-Roy
Roy Samuel Reid (28 June 1942 – 27 November 1999), better known as I-Roy, was a Jamaican deejay who had a very prolific career during the 1970s.
IAM (band)
IAM (pronounced "I am") is a French hip hop band from Marseille.
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Ice Ice Baby
"Ice Ice Baby" is the debut single by American rapper Vanilla Ice, K. Kennedy and DJ Earthquake.
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Ice-T
Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor.
Icelandic hip hop
Icelandic hip hop is hip hop culture from Iceland, which includes hip hop music and rapping, breakdancing by b-girls and b-boys, and graffiti artists and graffiti writers.
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Illbient
Illbient is a genre of electronic music and an art movement that originated among hip hop-influenced experimental musicians from New York City in the early 1990s.
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Illmatic
Illmatic is the debut studio album by the American rapper Nas.
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Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
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Indian hip hop
Indian hip hop is a genre of popular music developed in India.
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Hip hop music and Indie rock are 2000s fads and trends.
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Indonesian hip hop
Indonesian hip hop is hip hop music created in Indonesia.
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Industrial hip hop
Industrial hip hop is a fusion genre of industrial music and hip hop.
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Intelligent dance music
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.
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IPhone
The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.
Iranian hip hop
Iranian hip hop (Persian: هیپهاپ ایرانی), also known as Persian hip hop (هیپهاپ فارسی), refers to hip hop music in the Persian language developed in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Hip hop music and Iranian hip hop are hip hop.
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Irish hip hop
Irish hip hop is the response to the hip hop cultural movement that originated in New York City in the 1970s which, at that time, was most popular in the borough of The Bronx.
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Israeli hip hop
Israeli hip hop refers to hip hop and rap music in Israel.
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Israelis
Israelis (translit; translit) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel.
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It's Goin' Down (Yung Joc song)
"It's Goin' Down" is the debut single by American hip hop artist Yung Joc, released in April 15, 2006.
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It's Like That (Run-D.M.C. song)
"It's Like That" is the debut single of American hip hop group Run-D.M.C., released in 1983 by Profile Records.
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Italian hip hop
Italian hip hop is hip hop music rapped in the Italian language and/or made by Italian artists.
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Ivorian hip hop
Hip hop is a major part of the popular music of Côte d'Ivoire, and has been fused with many of the country's native styles, such as zouglou.
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J-pop
(often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as, is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.
Ja Rule
Jeffrey Bruce Atkins Sr. (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin (July 24, 1944 – June 4, 2018) was an American poet and musician.
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Jamaican Patois
Jamaican Patois (locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with West African, Taíno, Irish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Hindustani, Portuguese, Chinese, and German influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.
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Japanese hip hop
Japanese hip hop is hip hop music from Japan.
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Jay Electronica
Elpadaro F. Electronica Allah (born Timothy Elpadaro Thedford; September 19, 1976), known professionally as Jay Electronica (stylized as), is an American rapper and record producer.
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Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Hip hop music and Jazz are African-American cultural history, American styles of music, musical improvisation and radio formats.
Jazz poetry
Jazz poetry has been defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" and also as poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject.
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Jazz rap
Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Jazzy Jay
John Byas (born November 18, 1961), also known as The Original Jazzy Jay or DJ Jazzy Jay, is an American hip hop DJ and producer.
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Jeru the Damaja
Kendrick Jeru Davis (born February 14, 1972), known as Jeru the Damaja (/'jeiru: ðə ˈdæmɪʤə JAY-roo thuh DAM-''ih''-juh), is an American rapper and record producer.
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Jill Scott (singer)
Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress.
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John R.
John R. (born John Richbourg, August 20, 1910 - February 15, 1986) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame in the 1950s and 1960s for playing rhythm and blues music on Nashville radio station WLAC.
John Robie
John Robie is an American musician, producer and songwriter who has produced and/or written for such artists as Chaka Khan, New Order, UB40, Cabaret Voltaire, Soulsonic Force, Boy George, Planet Patrol, Laura Branigan, and Freeez, among others.
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Jovanotti
Lorenzo Cherubini (born 27 September 1966), better known as Jovanotti, is an Italian singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and DJ.
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Juicy J
Jordan Michael Houston III (born April 5, 1975), known professionally as Juicy J, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.
Jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a patron's selection from self-contained media.
Jurassic 5
Jurassic 5 is an American alternative hip hop group formed by rappers Charles Stewart (Chali 2na), Dante Givens (Akil), Courtenay Henderson (Soup aka Zaakir), Marc Stuart (Marc 7); and disc jockeys Mark Potsic (DJ Nu-Mark) and Lucas Macfadden (Cut Chemist).
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Juvenile (rapper)
Terius Gray (born March 26, 1975), better known by his stage name Juvenile, is an American rapper best known for his work with Birdman's Cash Money Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s, both solo and as a member of the label's then-flagship group, Hot Boys.
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K'naan
Keinan Abdi Warsame (born 16 April 1978) (Keynaan Cabdi Warsame, كَينَان عَبدِ وَرسَمَ Kaynān ʿAbdi Warsama), better known by his stage name K'naan, is a Somali-Canadian rapper, singer and filmmaker.
K-pop
K-pop, short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture.
Kaiser Family Foundation
KFF, which was formerly known as The Kaiser Family Foundation or The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, is an American non-profit organization, headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area.
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Kanye West
Ye (born Kanye Omari West; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
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Kasta
Kasta (Каста, Russian for caste) is a Russian rap group from Rostov-on-Don, well-known to Russian-speaking audiences in post-Soviet countries.
Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality.
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Kenyan hip hop
Kenyan hip hop is a genre of music and a culture that covers various forms and sub-genres of hip hop and rap originating from Kenya.
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Kery James
Alix Mathurin (born 28 December 1977) better known as Kery James, is a French rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer, playwright, screenwriter, actor, philanthropist and record producer from Orly, who was born in Guadeloupe to Haitian parents.
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Kid Cudi
Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi (born January 30, 1984), also known by his stage name Kid Cudi (formerly stylized as KiD CuDi), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and fashion designer.
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King of Rock
King of Rock is the second studio album by American hip hop group Run-D.M.C., released on January 21, 1985, by Profile Records.
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King Stitt
Winston Sparkes (17 September 1940 – 31 January 2012), better known as King Stitt, was a Jamaican pioneer DJ.
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King Tim III (Personality Jock)
"King Tim III (Personality Jock)" is a 1979 hip hop song by the Fatback Band from the disco album Fatback XII.
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KMD
KMD (K.M.D., Kausing Much Damage, or A Positive Kause in a Much Damaged Society) was an American hip hop trio active from 1988 to 1994.
Kodwo Eshun
Kodwo Eshun (born 1967) is a British-Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker.
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Kool Savas
Savaş Yurderi (born 10 February 1975), known by his stage name Kool Savas, is a German rapper of Turkish Origin.
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Korean hip hop
Korean hip-hop, also known as K-hip-hop or K-rap, is a subgenre of the South Korean popular music.
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Korg
, founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners.
Korn
Korn (stylized as KoЯn) is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, originally formed in 1993 by James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu and David Silveria, who were members of the band L.A.P.D. Their current lineup features Shaffer (guitar); Arvizu (bass); Brian "Head" Welch (guitar); Jonathan Davis (vocals), and Ray Luzier (drums), who replaced Silveria in 2007.
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
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Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer.
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Kwaito
Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, between the late 1980s and 1990s.
La Fouine
Laouni Mouhid (لاوني محيد.,; born 25 December 1981), commonly known by his stage name La Fouine, with additional aliases such as Fouiny Babe or just Fouiny, is a French rapper and singer.
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Lady B
Bahiyyah Clark, born Wendy Clark (c. 1962), better known by her stage name Lady B, is an American radio DJ and rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Laffy Taffy (song)
"Laffy Taffy" is a 2005 song by Atlanta-based hip hop group D4L which reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in January 2006.
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Large Professor
William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1972), better known by the stage name of Large Professor (also Extra P. and Large Pro), is an American rapper and music producer.
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Latin hip hop
Latin hip hop (also known as Latin rap) is hip hop music that is recorded by artists in the United States of Hispanic and Latino descent, along with Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean, North America, Central America, South America, and Spain.
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Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress.
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Le Combat Continue
Le Combat Continue is the second studio album by French Hip Hop group, Idéal J. The album is considered a classic in French hip hop music.
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Lean wit It, Rock wit It
"Lean wit It, Rock wit It" is a song by the hip hop group Dem Franchize Boyz from their album On Top of Our Game. Hip hop music and Lean wit It, Rock wit It are 2000s fads and trends.
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Lebanese hip hop
Lebanese Hip Hop is a pioneering movement in Arabic hip hop as Lebanese youth were among the first to be affected by hip hop culture.
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Lee "Scratch" Perry
Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936 – 29 August 2021) was a Jamaican record producer, composer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style.
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Let the Music Play (Shannon song)
"Let the Music Play" is a song recorded by American singer Shannon and released on September 19, 1983, as both her debut single and the lead single from her 1984 debut studio album of the same name.
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LGBT representations in hip hop music
LGBT representations in hip hop music have existed since the birth of the genre even while enduring blatant discrimination.
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Licensed to Ill
Licensed to Ill is the debut studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys.
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Ligalize
Andrey Vladimirovich Menshikov (Андре́й Влади́мирович Ме́ньшиков, born 30 June 1977, in Moscow), mostly known under his stage name Ligalize (Russian: Лигалайз), is a Russian hip hop artist and a former leader of the Legal Busine$$ band.
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Lil Jon
Jonathan H. Smith (born January 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, DJ, and record producer.
Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper.
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Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is an American nu metal band from Jacksonville, Florida.
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Liquid Swords
Liquid Swords is the second solo studio album by the American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member GZA, released on November 7, 1995, by Geffen Records.
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Liroy
Piotr Krzysztof Liroy-Marzec (born July 12, 1971, in Busko Zdrój, Poland as Piotr Krzysztof Marzec), better known as Liroy (Leeroy), is a Polish rapper and politician.
Lisa M
Mary Lisa (Marlisa) Marrero Vázquez (born January 17, 1974) better known by her stage name Lisa M, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, composer, dancer, record producer, and global DJ.
List of hip hop genres
List of genres of subgenres, micro, and umbrella terms of rap music.
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List of hip hop musicians
This is a list of notable hip hop musicians.
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LL Cool J
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper and actor.
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Lollipop (Lil Wayne song)
"Lollipop" is a song by American rapper and singer Lil Wayne posthumously featuring fellow American singer Static Major, issued on March 13, 2008, as the lead single from the former's sixth studio album, Tha Carter III (2008).
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Lovebug Starski
Kevin Smith (May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018), best known by his stage name Lovebug Starski, was an American MC, musician, and record producer.
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Low bap
Low bap is a subgenre of the Greek hip hop music scene that emerged in the mid-1990s as the sound of the prominent Greek hip hop group Active Member.
Luminate (company)
Luminate Data, LLC (formerly MRC Data and P-MRC Data) is a provider of music and entertainment data.
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Lupe Fiasco
Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16, 1982), better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, is an American rapper and record producer.
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M.I.A. (rapper)
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (மாதங்கி 'மாயா' அருள்பிரகாசம்; born 18 July 1975), known by her stage name M.I.A. (எம்.ஐ.ஏ.; an initialism for both "Missing in Action" and "Missing in Acton"), is a British rapper, record producer, and singer.
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Macedonian hip hop
Macedonian hip hop covers the Macedonian hip hop culture and the Macedonian language hip hop music primarily created in Macedonia, but also in the Macedonian diaspora.
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Madlib
Otis Jackson Jr. (born October 24, 1973), known professionally as Madlib, is an American DJ, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, and rapper.
Main Source
Main Source was a Canadian and American East Coast hip hop group based in New York City/Toronto, composed of Toronto-born DJs and producers, K-Cut and Sir Scratch, Queens DJ J.O.D and Queens MC and producer Large Professor.
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Malaysian hip hop
The Malaysian hip hop is a hip hop music performed in Malaysia.
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Malchishnik
Malchishnik (Мальчи́шник — The Stag Night) is a Russian hip hop group from who were the first Russian rap artists to gain mainstream popularity during earlier 1990s.
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Man Parrish
Manuel Parrish (born May 6, 1958) is an American songwriter, vocalist and producer.
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Marcelo D2
Marcelo Maldonado Peixoto (born November 5, 1967), also known as Marcelo D2, is a Brazilian rapper and singer.
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Mark D. Naison
Mark Naison (born 1946) is a professor of history at Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York.
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Marley Marl
Marlon Lu'Ree Williams (born September 30, 1962), better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip hop music.
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Mase
Mason Durell Betha (born August 27, 1975), better known by his mononym Mase (formerly Murda Mase and stylized as Ma$e), is an American rapper.
Masta Ace
Duval Clear (born December 4, 1966), known better by his stage name Masta Ace, is an American rapper and record producer from New York City.
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Master of ceremonies
A master of ceremonies, abbreviated MC or emcee, is the official host of a ceremony, staged event, conference, convention, or similar performance.
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Master P
Percy Robert Miller Sr. (born April 29, 1970), better known by his stage name Master P, is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, actor and entrepreneur.
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MC Hammer
Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American rapper, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur; known for hit songs such as "U Can't Touch This", "2 Legit 2 Quit" and "Pumps and a Bump", flashy dance movements, extravagant choreography and his eponymous Hammer pants.
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MC Solaar
Claude Honoré M'Barali (born 5 March 1969), professionally known as MC Solaar, is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin.
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Melle Mel
Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961), better known by his stage name Grandmaster Melle Mel or simply Melle Mel, is an American rapper who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963.
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Mellow Man Ace
Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (born April 12, 1967), better known as Mellow Man Ace, is a Cuban-American rapper known for bilingual delivery and novelty rhymes.
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Melting pot
A melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture; an alternative being a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural backgrounds, possessing the potential to create disharmony within the previous culture.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Merengue music
Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in present day Dominican Republic which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States with Latino communities.
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Mexican hip hop
Mexican hip hop is a form of hip hop music from Mexico, performed by Mexican artists and artists of Mexican descent.
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MF Doom
Daniel Dumile (born Dumile Daniel Thompson;; July 13, 1971October 31, 2020), also known by his stage name MF Doom or simply Doom (both stylized in all caps), was a British-American rapper and record producer.
Miami bass
Miami bass (also known as booty music or booty bass) is a subgenre of hip hop music that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, Baptist minister, and radio host.
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Michael Holman (filmmaker)
Michael Thomas Holman is a New York-based artist, writer, filmmaker and musician.
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Middle Eastern hip hop
Middle Eastern hip hop is hip hop music and culture originating in the Middle East.
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Midnight Star (band)
Midnight Star is an American musical group that had a string of hit records in the 1980s.
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Mike Ladd
Mike Ladd is an American hip hop musician from Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Mixtape
A mixtape (alternatively mix-tape, mix tape or mixed tape) is a compilation of music, typically from multiple sources, recorded onto a medium.
Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep was an American hip hop duo from Queens, New York formed in 1991.
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Moment of Truth (Gang Starr album)
Moment of Truth is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo Gang Starr, released on March 31, 1998, by Noo Trybe Records and Virgin Records.
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Monk
A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery.
Moroccan hip hop
Moroccan rap music is a Moroccan musical style related to rap and hip hop culture.
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Motswako
Motswako is a subgenre of hip hop originating from South Africa additionally prominently popularized in Botswana.
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Movmnt
movmnt magazine was an urban-leaning lifestyle magazine which was co-founded in 2006 by David Benaym and Danny Tidwell.
Mr. Lif
Jeffrey Michael Haynes (born December 28, 1977), better known by his stage name Mr.
MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist.
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Museum of Pop Culture
The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture.
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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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Music industry
The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.
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Music of Africa
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.
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Music of Jamaica
The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles.
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Music of Mauritius
Mauritius has 2 genres of music that originate from the Island.
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Music of Norway
Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs.
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Music of South Africa
The music of South Africa exhibits a culturally varied musical heritage in conjunction with the multi-ethnic populace.
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Music of the United States
The United States' multi-ethnic population is reflected through a diverse array of styles of music.
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Music recording certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.
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Music sequencer
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.
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MV Bill
MV Bill, real name Alexandre Pereira Barbosa (born January 3, 1974), is a Brazilian rap singer, actor, songwriter and co-author of the best-selling book Falcão - Meninos do Tráfico.
N.W.A
N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes, eye dialect for Niggas With Attitudes) was an American hip hop group formed in Compton, California.
Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known professionally as Nas, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.
National Rifle Association
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States.
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Native American hip hop
Native American Hip Hop is hip hop culture practiced by people of (often urban) Native American heritage, including Canadian First Nation hip hop artists.
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Native Tongues
The Native Tongues were a collective of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop artists known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling and jazz-influenced beats.
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Nā mele paleoleo
Nā mele paleoleo (sometimes "mele paleoleo") is a form of contemporary Hawaiian music that blends hip hop with native Hawaiian rapping.
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Nelly
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.
Neo soul
Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) is a genre of popular music. Hip hop music and Neo soul are American styles of music.
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Nepalese hip hop
Nephop is the Nepalese form of hip hop.
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Nerdcore
Nerdcore is a genre of hip hop music characterized by subject matter considered of interest to nerds and geeks.
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New jack swing
New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary sound of R&B. Hip hop music and new jack swing are African-American cultural history.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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New Pittsburgh Courier
The New Pittsburgh Courier is a weekly African-American newspaper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. Hip hop music and New wave music are American styles of music.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City blackout of 1977
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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New Zealand hip hop
New Zealand hip hop derives from the wider hip hop cultural movement originating amongst African Americans in the United States.
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New-school hip hop
The new school of hip hop was a movement in hip hop music, beginning in 1983–84 with the early records of Run–D.M.C., Whodini, and LL Cool J. Predominantly from Queens and Brooklyn, it was characterized by Drum Machine-led minimalism, often tinged with elements of Rock; rapped taunts, boasts, and socio-political commentary; and aggressive, self-assertive delivery.
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Newcleus
Newcleus was an American electro and old school hip hop group that gained popularity in the early 1980s.
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Nigerien hip hop
Rap Nigerien is a hip hop music style that first appeared in Niamey, Niger, at the end of 1998.
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Nigga
Nigga is a colloquial term in African-American Vernacular English that is considered vulgar in many contexts.
Nile Rodgers
Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
No Way Out (Puff Daddy album)
No Way Out is the debut studio album by American rapper Puff Daddy.
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Nu metal
Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, funk, industrial, and grunge. Hip hop music and nu metal are 1990s fads and trends, 2000s fads and trends and American styles of music.
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Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang
"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" is a song by American rapper Dr. Dre, featuring fellow American rapper Snoop Dogg, on Dre's debut solo album, The Chronic (1992).
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Nuyorican
Nuyorican is a portmanteau word blending "New York" (or "Nueva York" in Spanish) and "Puerto Rican", referring to Puerto Ricans located in or around New York City, their culture, or their descendants (especially those raised or currently living in the New York metropolitan area).
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O.C. (rapper)
Omar Gerryl Credle (born May 13, 1971), better known by his stage name, O.C., is an American rapper and member of the group D.I.T.C. He has been involved with several underground hip hop groups, namely Crooklyn Dodgers '95, Luv NY, and Perestroika.
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Old-school hip hop
Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre.
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Oosterhout
Oosterhout (from ooster, "eastern", and hout, "woods") is a municipality and a city in southern Netherlands.
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Organized Konfusion
Organized Konfusion (OK) is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York, composed of Prince Po and Pharoahe Monch.
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Osdorp Posse
The Osdorp Posse, founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1989, was the first group to make rap music in Dutch.
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Oxmo Puccino
Abdoulaye Plea Diarra (born 3 August 1974), better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino, is a French-Malian rapper.
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P.S.K. What Does It Mean?
"P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" (also written as "P.S.K. (What Does It Mean?)") is a song released in 1985 by Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D on his independent label Schoolly D Records.
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Paid in Full (album)
Paid in Full is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, released on July 7, 1987, by Island-subsidiary label 4th & B'way Records.
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Pakistani hip hop music
Pakistani hip hop is a music genre in Pakistan, influenced heavily from merging American hip hop style beats with Pakistani poetry.
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Palestinian hip hop
Palestinian hip hop reportedly started in 1998 with Tamer Nafar's group DAM.
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Palestinians
Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.
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Pantelimon, Bucharest
Pantelimon is a neighbourhood located in north-eastern Bucharest, Romania, in Sector 2.
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Paper Trail
Paper Trail is the sixth studio album by American rapper T.I., released September 30, 2008, on Grand Hustle Records and Atlantic Records.
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Patter
Patter is a prepared and practiced speech that is designed to produce a desired response from its audience.
People Under the Stairs
People Under the Stairs was an American hip hop duo from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2019.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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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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Pete Rock
Peter O. Phillips (born June 21, 1970), better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American music producer, DJ and rapper.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Pigmeat Markham
Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham (April 18, 1904 – December 13, 1981) was an African American entertainer.
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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.
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Pitchfork
A pitchfork or hay fork is an agricultural tool used to pitch loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves.
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Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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Planet Patrol
Planet Patrol is an American electro group originating in the 1980s.
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Planet Rock (song)
"Planet Rock" is a song by the American hip hop artists Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force.
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Playlist
A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player, either sequentially or in a shuffled order.
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Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em is the third studio album by American rapper MC Hammer, released on February 12, 1990 by Capitol Records and EMI Records.
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Poetry slam
A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. Hip hop music and poetry slam are African-American cultural history.
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Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.
Polish hip hop
The Polish hip hop scene was born in the early 1990s, due to the popularity of American rap.
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Political hip hop
Political hip hop (also known as political rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning hip hop into a form of political activism.
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Pop rap
Pop rap (also known as pop hip-hop, pop hop, hip pop, melodic hip-hop or melodic rap) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip-hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes emphasizing on pop like productions and structure.
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (Brazilian) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Postmen (band)
Postmen is a reggae/hip hop band from the Netherlands; the original line-up consisted of Remon 'The Anonymous Mis' Stotijn, Michael 'Rollarocka' Parkinson and Gus 'G-Boah' Bear.
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Prince Buster
Cecil Bustamente Campbell (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer.
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Prince Far I
Prince Far I (23 March 1945 – 15 September 1983) was a Jamaican reggae deejay and producer, and a Rastafarian.
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Prince Jazzbo
Linval Roy Carter (3 September 1951 – 11 September 2013), better known as Prince Jazzbo, was a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay and producer.
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Prince Paul (producer)
Paul Edward Huston (born April 2, 1967), better known by his stage name Prince Paul, is an American record producer, disc jockey and recording artist from Amityville, New York.
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Prism Records
Prism Records was an American record label formed in 1978 by Len Fichtelberg (d. November 4, 2010).
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Profile Records
Profile Records was one of the earliest hip hop labels.
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Programming (music)
Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.
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Public address system
A public address system (or PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.
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Public Enemy
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav on Long Island, New York, in 1985.
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Puerto Rico
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Punk rock subgenres
A number of overlapping punk rock subgenres have developed since the emergence of punk rock (often shortened to punk) in the mid-1970s.
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Q-Tip (musician)
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (born Jonathan William Davis, April 10, 1970), better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American rapper, record producer, singer, and DJ.
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R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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R.O.O.T.S.
R.O.O.T.S. (short for Route of Overcoming the Struggle) is the second studio album by American rapper Flo Rida.
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Racionais MC's
Racionais MC's is a Brazilian hip hop group based in São Paulo.
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Radio Nova (France)
Radio Nova (or simply Nova) is a radio station broadcast from Paris, created in 1981 by Jean-François Bizot.
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Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.
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Raekwon
Corey Woods (born January 12, 1970), better known by his stage name Raekwon, is an American rapper.
Raga
A raga (also raaga or ragam or raag) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American rock band formed in 1991 in Los Angeles, California.
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; August 7, 1935Kernfeld, Barry. "." The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. Ed. Barry Kernfeld. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved February 1, 2009-. "The year of his birth has been widely given as 1936, but his birth certificate gives 1935 and confirms Ronald, not Roland." – December 5, 1977), known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments.
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Raising Hell (album)
Raising Hell is the third studio album by American hip hop group Run-D.M.C., released on May 15, 1986, by Profile Records.
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Rakim
William Michael Griffin Jr. (born January 28, 1968), better known by his stage name Rakim, is an American rapper.
Rambo Amadeus
Antonije Pušić (born 14 June 1963), known professionally as Rambo Amadeus, is a Montenegrin author and performer.
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Rammellzee
Rammellzee (stylized RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, pronounced "Ram: Ell: Zee"; December 15, 1960 – June 28, 2010) was a visual artist, gothic futurist "graffiti writer", painter, performance artist, art theoretician, sculptor and a hip-hop musician from New York City, who has been cited as "instrumental in introducing elements of the avant-garde into hip-hop culture".
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Rap metal
Rap metal is a fusion genre that combines hip hop with heavy metal. Hip hop music and Rap metal are 2010s fads and trends and American styles of music.
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Rap opera
A rap opera or hip hopera is a musical work in hip hop style with operatic form.
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Rap rock
Rap rock is a music genre that developed from the early to mid-1980s, when hip hop DJs incorporated rock records into their routines and rappers began incorporating original and sampled rock instrumentation into hip hop music.
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Rapper's Delight
"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 hip hop track that serves as the debut single of American hip-hop trio the Sugarhill Gang, produced by Sylvia Robinson.
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Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
Rapture (Blondie song)
"Rapture" is a song by American rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album Autoamerican (1980).
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Rawkus Records
Rawkus Records was an American hip hop record label, owned by James Murdoch, known for starting the careers of many rappers.
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Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) is the debut album by alternative hip hop group Digable Planets released on February 9, 1993, by Pendulum/Elektra Records.
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Reasonable Doubt (album)
Reasonable Doubt is the debut studio album by American rapper Jay-Z. It was released on June 25, 1996, by his own record label Roc-A-Fella Records and distributed by Priority Records.
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Recife
Recife is the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.
Record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.
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Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.
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Reggaeton
Reggaeton, is a modern style of popular music that originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.
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Relapse (Eminem album)
Relapse is the sixth studio album by the American rapper Eminem.
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Reverberation
Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.
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Rhyme
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.
Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. Hip hop music and Rhythm and blues are African-American cultural history and American styles of music.
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RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) operates an awards program based on the certified number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.
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Rick Ross
William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), known professionally as Rick Ross, is an American rapper and record executive.
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Rick Rubin
Frederick Jay Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record executive and record producer.
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Right Round
"Right Round" is a single performed by American rapper Flo Rida featuring guest vocals from American singer Kesha.
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Rim'K
Abdelkrim Brahmi, known professionally as Rim'K (born 21 June 1978 in Paris, France), is a French rapper.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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RJD2
Ramble Jon Krohn (born May 27, 1976), better known by his stage name RJD2, is an American musician and record producer based in Columbus, Ohio.
Roc-A-Fella Records
Roc-A-Fella Records was an American hip hop record label and music management company founded by record executives and entrepreneurs Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Damon Dash, and Kareem "Biggs" Burke in 1994.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Hip hop music and rock and roll are American styles of music and radio formats.
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Rock Steady Crew
Rock Steady Crew is an American breaking and hip hop group which has become a franchise for multiple groups in other locations.
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Rockism and poptimism
Rockism and poptimism are ideological arguments about popular music prevalent in mainstream music journalism.
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Roger Troutman
Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 – April 25, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and the founder of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the funk movement and influenced West Coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music.
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Rohff
Housni M'Kouboi (born 15 December 1977), better known as Rohff and at times stylized as Roh2f, is a French rapper.
Roland Corporation
is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.
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Roland TR-808
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983.
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Roland TR-909
The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 909, is a drum machine introduced by Roland Corporation in 1983, succeeding the TR-808.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Romani hip hop
Romani hip hop is a musical genre from Eastern Europe, formed through a fusion of hip hop with Romani melodies and lyrics.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Romanian hip hop
Romanian hip hop first emerged in 1982, along with the break-dancing movement which became very popular in the 1980s.
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Rudy Ray Moore
Rudolph Frank Moore (March 17, 1927October 19, 2008), known as Rudy Ray Moore, was an American comedian, singer, actor, and film producer.
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Rufus Thomas
Rufus C. Thomas, Jr. (March 26, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm-and-blues, funk, soul and blues singer, songwriter, dancer, DJ and comic entertainer from Memphis, Tennessee.
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Russell Simmons
Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive.
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Russian hip hop
Russian hip hop refers to hip hop music recorded in Russia or in the Russian language in former Soviet states such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
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Salvador, Bahia
Salvador is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia.
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Salvadoran hip hop
Salvadoran rap or Guanaco hip hop is a type of rap music that comes from El Salvador.
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Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings).
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Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
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San Antonio
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.
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Sasquatch! Music Festival
Sasquatch! Music Festival was an annual music festival held at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, United States.
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
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Saul Williams
Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor.
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São Paulo
São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.
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Scat singing
Originating in vocal jazz, scat singing or scatting is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.
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Schoolly D
Jesse Bonds Weaver Jr. (born June 22, 1962), better known by the stage name Schoolly D, is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Scott Herren
Guillermo Scott Herren is an American producer who has been based in Atlanta, Barcelona, and New York City.
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Scott Storch
Scott Spencer Storch (born December 16, 1973) is an American record producer and songwriter.
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Scottish hip hop
Scottish hip hop is the regional manifestation of the British hip hop culture in Scotland, comprising the five elements of MCing, DJing, beatboxing, graffiti and b-boying.
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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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Sean Combs
Sean Love Combs (born Sean John Combs; November 4, 1969), also known by his stage name Diddy, formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer and record executive.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Sen Dog
Senen Reyes (born November 20, 1965), also known by his stage name Sen Dog, is a Cuban-American rapper who is best known as a member of the hip hop group Cypress Hill and as the lead vocalist for the nu metal band Powerflo.
Senegalese hip hop
Senegalese hip hop is a form of hip hop that originated in Senegal in the early 1980s.
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Sensual Seduction
"Sensual Seduction", also known as "Sexual Eruption", is a song by American rapper Snoop Dogg.
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Serbian hip hop
Serbian hip hop is an umbrella term for all genres of hip hop music in the Serbian language.
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Shannon (American singer)
Brenda Shannon Greene (born May 2, 1958), known professionally as Shannon, is an American singer and songwriter of freestyle and dance-pop music.
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Shing02
, better known by his stage name Shing02, is a Japanese hip hop recording artist, record producer, activist and investor.
Sidney Duteil
Sidney Duteil (born Patrick Duteil in 1955), better known as Sidney, is a French musician, rapper, DJ, television and radio host, and occasional actor of Guadeloupean origin.
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Signifyin'
Signifyin' (sometimes written "signifyin(g)") is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words.
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Sinik
Thomas Gérard Idir (born 26 June 1980), better known by his stage name Sinik (sometimes spelled as S.I.N.I.K.), is a French-language rapper.
Sir Lord Comic
Sir Lord Comic is one of the original Jamaican deejays.
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SlaughtaHouse
SlaughtaHouse is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Masta Ace Incorporated and the second album by Brooklyn-based rapper Masta Ace.
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Slovak hip hop
Slovak hip hop is said to have begun in 1988, before the establishment of the Slovak Republic itself.
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Slovenian hip hop
Slovenian hip hop refers to hip hop within Slovenia.
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Sly and Robbie
Sly and Robbie were a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres.
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Snap music
Snap music (also known as ringtone rap or snap rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music derived from crunk that originated in southern United States in the 2000s, in Bankhead, West Atlanta, United States.
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Sniper (group)
Sniper is a French hip hop band formed in 1997 in Val-d'Oise.
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Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.
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SoleSides
SoleSides was an American underground hip hop label based in Northern California, founded in 1991.
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Somali people
The Somali people (Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.
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Songo-salsa
Songo-salsa is a style of music that blends Spanish rapping and hip hop beats with salsa music and songo.
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Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.
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Soul Food (Goodie Mob album)
Soul Food is the debut album from American rap group Goodie Mob, released by LaFace Records.
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Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Hip hop music and Soul music are African-American cultural history, American styles of music, musical improvisation and radio formats.
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Soulja Boy
DeAndre Cortez Way (born July 28, 1990), known professionally as Soulja Boy (formerly Soulja Boy Tell 'Em), is an American rapper and record producer from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Souljaboytellem.com
Souljaboytellem.com is the debut studio album and major label debut by American rapper and producer Soulja Boy Tell 'Em.
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Souls of Mischief
Souls of Mischief is a hip hop group from Oakland, California, that is also part of the hip hop collective Hieroglyphics.
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Soulsonic Force
Soulsonic Force (also referred to as Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force) is an American electro-funk and hip hop ensemble led by Afrika Bambaataa who helped establish hip-hop in the early 1980s with songs such as "Planet Rock." They were also influential in the birth of the electro movement in America and helped pave the way for modern dance music styles such as electro-funk as well as the entire Miami bass scene.
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Sound effect
A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Southern hip hop
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 music.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by the American duo Outkast.
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Special Period
The Special Period (Período especial), officially the Special Period in the Time of Peace (Período especial en tiempos de paz), was an extended period of economic crisis in Cuba that began in 1991 primarily due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Comecon.
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Spin (magazine)
Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.
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Spoken word
Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities.
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Spoonie Gee
Gabriel Jackson (born May 27, 1963), better known by his stage name Spoonie Gee, is one of the earliest rap artists, and one of the few to have released rap records in the 1970s.
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Spotify
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
St. Louis
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Steven Hager
Steven Hager (born May 25, 1951, Illinois) is an American writer, journalist, filmmaker, and counterculture and cannabis rights activist.
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Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American gangsta rap group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton in early 1987.
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Style Wars
Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary film on hip hop culture, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant.
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Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.
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Subliminal (rapper)
Ya'akov "Kobi" Shimony (Hebrew: יעקב "קובי" שמעוני, born November 13, 1979), generally known by his stage name Subliminal (סאבלימינל), is an Israeli rapper, singer and record producer.
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Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label)
Sugar Hill Records was an American record label specializing in hip hop music that was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with Milton Malden and funding from Tony Riviera and Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records.
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Suge Knight
Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. (born April 19, 1965) is an American record executive and convicted felon who is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.
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SUNY Press
The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.
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Suprême NTM
Suprême NTM, or simply NTM, is a French hip hop band formed in 1989 in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France.
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Sway Calloway
Jonathan Ahmad Calloway (born July 3, 1971), known as Sway, is an American radio personality, journalist and former rapper known for hosting music, news, and culture programming.
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Swedish hip hop
Emerging in the first half of the 1980s, Swedish hip hop originated in the cities of Stockholm and Malmö.
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Swiss hip hop
The Swiss hip hop culture began in the early 1980s.
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Synchronization
Synchronization is the coordination of events to operate a system in unison.
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T-Pain
Faheem Rashad Najm (born September 30, 1984), known professionally as T-Pain, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor.
T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980), known professionally as T.I. or Tip (often stylized as TIP), is an American rapper.
Taiwanese hip hop
Taiwanese hip hop music started in the early 1990s, popularized by the early hip hop trio L.A. Boyz.
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Talk box
A talk box (also spelled talkbox and talk-box) is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument.
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Talking blues
Talking blues is a form of folk music and country music.
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Tamer Nafar
Tamer Nafar (تامر النفار, תאמר נפאר; born June 6, 1979) is a Palestinian rapper, actor, screenwriter and social activist of Israeli citizenship.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Tanzanian hip hop
Tanzanian Hip-hop, which is sometimes referred to Bongo Flava by many outside of Tanzania's hip hop community, encompasses a large variety of different sounds, but it is particularly known for heavy synth riffs and an incorporation of Tanzanian pop.
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Tech N9ne
Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971), better known by his stage name Tech N9ne (pronounced "tech nine"), is an American rapper and singer.
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Teddy Riley
Edward Theodore Riley (born October 8, 1967) is an American record producer, singer, and songwriter credited with the creation of the R&B and hip hop fusion genre new jack swing.
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Teen idol
A teen idol is a celebrity with a large teenage fan base.
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Tego Calderón
Tegui Calderón Rosario (born February 1, 1972) is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer and actor.
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Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Terror Squad (group)
Terror Squad was an American hip hop collective that was first established in 1998.
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Tha Alkaholiks
Tha Alkaholiks, also known as Tha Liks, is an American hip hop trio from Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
"The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" is a single released by American disc jockey Grandmaster Flash in 1981.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Blueprint 3
The Blueprint 3 is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 8, 2009, on Roc Nation and Roc-A-Fella, through distribution from Asylum Records and Atlantic Records.
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The Bomb Squad
The Bomb Squad was an American hip hop production team known for their work with hip hop group Public Enemy.
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The Breaks (song)
"The Breaks" is a song by American rapper Kurtis Blow from his self-titled debut album.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.
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The Chronic
The Chronic is the debut studio album by American record producer and rapper Dr. Dre.
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The Cold Crush Brothers
The Cold Crush Brothers are an American hip hop group that formed in 1978 in the Bronx, New York City.
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The Cool Kids
The Cool Kids are an American hip hop duo composed of rappers Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish.
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The Dovells
The Dovells were an American doo-wop group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1957, under the name 'The Brooktones'.
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The Game (rapper)
Jayceon Terrell Taylor (born November 29, 1979), better known by his stage name the Game or simply Game, is an American rapper.
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The Geto Boys (album)
The Geto Boys is a remix album by the Geto Boys released in 1990.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Infamous
The Infamous (stylized as The Infamous...) is the second studio album by the American hip hop duo Mobb Deep.
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The Journal of African American History
The Journal of African American History, formerly The Journal of Negro History (1916–2001), is a quarterly academic journal covering African-American life and history.
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The Last Poets
The Last Poets is a poetry collective and musical group that arose in the late 1960s as part of the African-American civil rights movement and black nationalism.
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The Last Poets (album)
The Last Poets is the debut studio album by spoken word recording artists The Last Poets.
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The Marshall Mathers LP
The Marshall Mathers LP is the third studio album by the American rapper Eminem, released on May 23, 2000, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.
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The Master Scratch Band
The Master Scratch Band are a group considered to have started Serbian hip hop in the early 1980s with their Degout EP, which was released through Jugoton in the year 1984.
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The Mean Machine (rap group)
The Mean Machine was a rap group composed of Puerto Ricans who rapped in both English and Spanish.
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The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)
"The Message" is a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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The Neptunes
The Neptunes are an American record production duo composed of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, formed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1992.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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The People's Choice (band)
The People's Choice was an American funk band formed in 1971 in Philadelphia by Frank Brunson and David Thompson.
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The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde is an American alternative hip hop group, formed in 1989, from South Central Los Angeles.
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The Rehearsal (play)
The Rehearsal was a satirical play aimed specifically at John Dryden and generally at the sententious and overly ambitious theatre of the Restoration tragedy.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a satirical poem and Black Liberation song by Gil Scott-Heron.
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The Roots
The Roots are an American hip hop band formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Sequence
The Sequence was an American female hip–hop trio from Columbia, South Carolina, who formed in 1979.
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The Slim Shady LP
The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by the American rapper Eminem.
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The Source
The Source is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or.
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The Streets
The Streets is an English musical project led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner.
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The Sugarhill Gang
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group formed in Englewood, New Jersey in 1979.
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The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, written by Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd and produced by Hurd.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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The Waitresses
The Waitresses were an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, best known for their singles "I Know What Boys Like" and "Christmas Wrapping." They released two albums, Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? and Bruiseology, and one EP, I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1972), known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapper, and singer.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Time 100
Time 100 is a list of the top 100 most influential people, assembled by the American news magazine Time.
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Time signature
A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).
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TLC (group)
TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Toasting (Jamaican music)
Toasting (rap in other parts of the Anglo Caribbean) or deejaying is the act of talking, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or beat by a deejay.
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Togolese hip hop
Togo has very diverse and rich traditions in music and dance, which is in part reflected by Togo's regional hip hop scene.
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Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Records is an American independent record label and multimedia brand founded in 1981 by Tom Silverman.
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Tone Loc
Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Tone Lōc, is an American rapper.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Townsquare Media
Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York.
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Tragedy Khadafi
Percy Lee Chapman (born August 13, 1971), known by his stage name Tragedy Khadafi (formerly Intelligent Hoodlum), is an American rapper and record producer.
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Trans-Europe Express (album)
Trans-Europe Express (Trans Europa Express) is the sixth studio album by German band Kraftwerk.
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Trash talk
Trash talk is a form of spoken insult usually found in sports events, although it is not exclusive to sports or similarly characterized events.
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Trip hop
Trip hop is a musical genre that originated in the late 1980s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. Hip hop music and Trip hop are hip hop.
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Tumi Molekane
Tumi Molekane (born 16 August 1981) is a Tanzanian-born South African rapper and poet.
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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper, actor, activist, poet, and songwriter.
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Turkish hip hop
Turkish hip hop refers to hip hop music produced by members of the Turkish minority in Germany, and to a lesser degree by hip hop artists in Turkey.
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Turkish people
Turkish people or Turks (Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
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Turntablism
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more turntables and a cross fader-equipped DJ mixer.
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Twelve-inch single
The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12) is a type of vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a "single" or a few related sound tracks on each surface, compared to LPs (long play) which have several songs on each side.
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Twin Cities hip hop
Twin Cities hip hop, also referred to as Minneapolis hip hop, is sub-genre of rap music that originates from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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Twista
Carl Terrell Mitchell (born November 27, 1973), better known by his stage name Twista (formerly Tung Twista), is an American rapper.
U Can't Touch This
"U Can't Touch This" is a song co-written, produced, and performed by American rapper MC Hammer.
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U-Roy
Ewart Beckford OD (21 September 1942 – 17 February 2021), known by the stage name U-Roy, was a Jamaican vocalist and pioneer of toasting.
UGK
UGK (short for Underground Kingz) was an American hip hop duo from Houston, Texas, more specifically a outskirt called Port Arthur, Texas, formed in 1987, by Bernard "Bun B" Freeman and Chad "Pimp C" Butler.
Ugly Duckling (hip hop group)
Ugly Duckling is an American hip hop group that formed around 1993.
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UK rap
UK rap, also known as British hip hop or UK hip hop, is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music made in the United Kingdom.
Ukrainian hip hop
Ukrainian hip hop is a major part of the Ukrainian music scene.
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Underground hip hop
Underground hip-hop (also commonly known as indie hip-hop or underground rap) is an umbrella term for hip hop music that is outside the general commercial canon.
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Underground music
Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture.
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Universal Zulu Nation
The Universal Zulu Nation is an international hip hop awareness group formed by and formerly led by hip hop artist Afrika Bambaataa.
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Urban contemporary music
Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. Hip hop music and urban contemporary music are radio formats.
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Urban Pasifika
Urban Pasifika (also known as Urban Pacific and Urban Pacifika) is a New Zealand subgenre of hip hop, that developed primarily among Pasifika New Zealanders in South Auckland.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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Usher (musician)
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), known mononymously as Usher, is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.
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Valete
Keidje Torres Lima is a Portuguese language political hip hop artist, known professionally as Valete.
Vanilla Ice
Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host.
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Vibe (magazine)
Vibe is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producers David Salzman and Quincy Jones.
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Vice (magazine)
Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.
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Video vixen
A video vixen (also referred to as a hip hop honey or video girl) is a woman who models and appears in hip hop-oriented music videos.
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Viral video
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.
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Wale (rapper)
Olubowale Victor Akintimehin (born September 21, 1984), better known by his stage name Wale, is an American rapper.
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WarnerMedia
Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.
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We Can't Be Stopped
We Can't Be Stopped is the third studio album by Geto Boys, released on July 9, 1991.
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WERD (Atlanta)
WERD was the first radio station owned and programmed by African Americans.
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Wesleyan University Press
Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
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West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States.
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What's My Name? (Snoop Doggy Dogg song)
"Who Am I? (What's My Name?)" (commonly titled "What's My Name?") is the debut solo single by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, released on November 11, 1993, as the debut single from his first album, Doggystyle (1993), with the record labels Death Row and Interscope Records.
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Wild Style
Wild Style is a 1983 American hip hop film directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn.
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Wild Thing (Tone Lōc song)
"Wild Thing" is a single by American rapper Tone Lōc from his 1989 album Lōc-ed After Dark.
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Wiley (musician)
Richard Kylea Cowie Jr. (born 19 January 1979), better known by his stage name Wiley (formerly Wiley Kat), is a British grime MC, rapper, songwriter, DJ and record producer from Bow, London.
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Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, rapper and film producer.
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WLAC
WLAC (1510 AM) is a commercial radio station in Nashville, Tennessee.
Wonky (genre)
Wonky is a subgenre of electronic dance music known primarily for its off-kilter or “unstable” beats, as well as its eclectic, colorful blend of genres including hip-hop, electro-funk, 8-bit, jazz fusion, glitch, and crunk.
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Word...Life
Word...Life is the debut album from underground hip hop artist O.C., who came to prominence in hip hop because of the album.
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Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop musical collective formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992.
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WYLL
WYLL (1160 AM) is a commercial radio station in Chicago, Illinois.
XXL (magazine)
XXL is an American hip hop magazine, published by Townsquare Media, founded in 1997.
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Yasiin Bey
Yasiin Bey (born Dante Terrell Smith, December 11, 1973), formerly known as Mos Def, is an American rapper and actor.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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Ying Yang Twins
The Ying Yang Twins are an American hip hop duo consisting of Kaine (born Eric Jackson on December 16, 1978) and D-Roc (born Deongelo/D'Angelo Holmes on February 23, 1979).
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Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on February 10, 1987.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.
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Yung Joc
Jasiel Amon Robinson (born September 20, 1980), better known by his stage name Yung Joc, is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Zimbabwean hip hop
Zimbabwean hip hop is a variety of hip hop music that is popular in Zimbabwe.
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Zionism
Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.
2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted
"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his fourth studio album, All Eyez on Me (1996).
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2001 (Dr. Dre album)
2001 (also referred to as The Chronic 2001 or The Chronic II) is the second studio album by American record producer and rapper Dr. Dre.
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3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of...
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... is the debut album by American hip hop group Arrested Development, released on March 24, 1992.
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3rd Bass
3rd Bass was an American hip hop group that was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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46th Annual Grammy Awards
The 46th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 8, 2004, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California honoring the best in music for the recording of the year beginning from October 1, 2002, through September 30, 2003.
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50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, and businessman.
6 in the Mornin'
"6 in the Mornin' is a song by American rapper Ice-T. Released in 1986 as the B-side of "Dog 'n the Wax (Ya Don't Quit-Part II)", the song is considered to be one of the defining tracks of the gangsta rap genre.
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808s & Heartbreak
808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by the American rapper Kanye West.
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See also
Hip hop
- Anime and hip hop
- Arabic hip hop
- Chipmunk soul
- Classical music in hip hop
- DJ mixer
- Feminist activism in hip hop
- Flocabulary
- Hip Hop 50
- Hip Hop: A Cultural Odyssey
- Hip hop (culture)
- Hip hop and social injustice
- Hip hop based education
- Hip hop dance
- Hip hop feminism
- Hip hop genres
- Hip hop music
- Hip hop production
- Hip hop record labels
- Hip hop therapy
- Hip-hop in academia
- History of hip hop
- Hype man
- Iranian hip hop
- Jewish hip hop
- Jihadism and hip hop
- Krip Hop
- LGBT hip hop
- Misogyny in rap music
- Partner violence in hip hop
- Ratchet feminism
- Raunch aesthetics
- Samoan hip hop
- Trip hop
Music of New York City
- American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7
- Beatdown hardcore
- Brill Building
- Brill Building (genre)
- Brooklyn drill
- Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium
- Death of Classical
- Drill music
- East Coast hip hop
- Fast Folk
- Gangsta rap
- Hip hop music
- Jazz Impressions of New York
- La Excelencia
- Lady Gaga Live at Roseland Ballroom
- List of New York hardcore bands
- Michael Jackson: Live at the Apollo 2002
- Music of New York City
- N.Y.H.C. (film)
- New York Thrash
- New York hardcore
- New York soul
- No wave
- Noise Action Coalition
- October Revolution in Jazz
- Our Latin Thing
- Post-disco
- Punk rock
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Sadowsky
- Salsa music
- Sinatra – The Main Event (TV program)
- Slapshot (song)
- Streets of New York (album)
- The Big Apple Rotten to the Core
- The Blank Generation
- The Broadway League
- The Manhattan Blues Project
- The September Concert
- Tin Pan Alley
- Totalism
- Vision Festival
Musical improvisation
- Bardia Sadrenoori
- Blues
- Catherine Delaunay
- Charlie Parker Omnibook
- Descarga
- Electroacoustic improvisation
- Faking (jazz)
- Free improvisation
- GRIM
- Gabriela Montero
- Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
- Hip hop music
- Impro-Visor
- Impromptu
- Improvisation in music therapy
- Improvised Music from Japan
- Inner Passion
- Intuitive music
- IxiQuarks
- Jam band
- Jam bands
- Jam session
- Jazz
- Jazz improvisation
- Musical improvisation
- Ninjam
- Partimento
- Passing chord
- Realization (figured bass)
- Richard Grayson (composer)
- Soul music
- Spontaneous composition
- Taqsim
- The Lick
- Time Structured Mapping
References
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