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hip-hop

A music style that formed in the 80's out of reggae influence. It was forming a little bit after the rap style was formed. It borrowed the spoken type of lyrics and it had trumpet and very upbeat and stimulating rhythms.

Hip-hop is different from rap because rap is very poetic but it has a beat to keep a steady flow, (a beat as in drums or anything that makes a short sound) It (was) started/influnced with/by the James Brown song "The Big Comeback"

Hip-hop got mixed up with rap when Run-D.M.C. came in, they created songs that were a mix of both styles, such as "King of Rock", it had poetic lyrics, drums and guitar which had savory rhythm. Run-D.M.C. were very good with poetry and they used Hip-hop melodies and rap beats mixed in their songs.

Modern Hip-hop is called rap but it isn't very poetic, it is almost like 80's Hip-hop but the reggae influence has been replaced with synth, the modern "rappers" are actually Hip-hop artists but the average person calls them rappers because it is shorter than "Hip-hop artist". Out of the laziness of people to say 2 words instead of one; Hip-hop and rap have been mixed up.

Rap is dead these days and the last rappers were Run-D.M.C. and maybe Tupac.

I do not like modern Hip-hop cause the artists try to make catchy, rhyming lyrics but because they don't have poetic minds they have to slur and mispronounce words to make them rhyme. Example: the song "Throw some D's" you hear the word "caddilick" a lot. I listen to the song just to laugh at it, I am even laughing as I write this.

Hip-hop was a great upbeat style but it is now all about image, the best of modern Hip-hop is ok to me but I really liked the early Hip-hop.
by joe725 April 28, 2007
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HIP-HOP

Real Hip-Hop is another form of making love, to someone mind, body and soul.It's like a freaky ass soda ready to expload over a gentle earloab.
by Cc Love October 29, 2003
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hip-hop

Yeah you smart guy you gave yourself 2 thumbs up and to all the hip-hop haters thumbs down.
Faker Faker Faker you don't know nothing about hip-hop
by WS July 18, 2004
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hip-hop

when abe lincoln finished his famous speech, he then shouted "now let's get down", grabbed his secretary and started grinding
four score and seven years ago...... fuck this, let's get down!
(hip-hop)
by buba and shoogar daddeh foo' September 5, 2009
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hip hop

a shit type of music and lifestyle choice that has no place in the New World, something only chavs and wannabe wiggers listen to
Man: That hip-hop is shit, play something with a bit of fucking talent.
Hip hop fanatic: *lost for words that someone has stood up to him/her*
by Metal Master September 30, 2005
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hip hop

The second poxiest kind of "music" on the planet, rap being the number one all-time shitest. I won't even go into why; just listen to some and feel your IQ decrease and your brains slop out from your ears. You may want to wear a cap sideways after the experience and that also makes you like a nob.

Pure talentless drivel. If someone said I should listen to some I'd rather, and I quote, "stick my wedding tackle in a lions mouth while whipping it's love spuds with a wet towel".
Guy 1: What's that sound?
Guy 2: Hip hop
Guy 1: Shit innit?
Guy 2: Yes
by flatster October 9, 2006
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hip hop

A genre of "music" which exists due to its popularity with unintelligent people due to its status and not due to actual musical merit, of which it is usually totally devoid.
"Oi this new 50 cent tune is bare weighty innit"
"Um, no - 50 cent is big phony with zero musical talent and most, if not all, hip hop is unlistenable rubbish"
"Oi shut your chat or I will tax your phone mate. Whoops I got to go back to my council flat to eat my dinner of chips and ketchup"
by victor stone January 8, 2006
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