Hip-hop Definition
hĭphŏp
noun
A style of music usually based on rap and often including elements of other styles such as funk or rhythm and blues.
American Heritage
A form of popular music that originated among inner-city African American youths in the 1980s, drawing on rap, funk, street sounds, and fragments of melody and rhythm borrowed from previously recorded sources.
Webster's New World
The culture or a fashion, dance, etc. associated with this music or its fans.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of or characteristic of hip-hop culture.
American Heritage
Origin of Hip-hop
Probably hip hop
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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