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The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar feud emerged as a major mainstream hip hop event during the mid-2020s, influencing multiple facets of American hip hop culture throughout the rest of the decade. Lamar's diss tracks, particularly "Not Like Us," released in 2024, directly challenged Drake's position in the genre.
JYP Entertainment described Hop as the first work of album marketed as "SKZhop Hiptape"—a combination of the group's initials "SKZ" and "hip-hop"—which would "contains 'Stray Kids' only-new-genre' songs that has not been officially defined." [6] The title is a word play between "Hop" from hip-hop music and Hanja " 合" (lit.
Hip hop music arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami.During the 1980s, hip hop culture in Cuba was mainly centered on breakdancing.By the 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of the Special Period, young rappers, exposed to foreign tourists whose wealth highlighted their struggle, turned to rapping to affirm their heritage and advocate for further ...
In the music video for the 2021 hit “Dance Crip,” Argentine rapper Trueno bikes, walks and dances his way through the soulful Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca. Anchored by a lethal bass ...
The Fearless Four (also known as Fearless 4 and Fearless Four) is an American old school hip hop group from Harlem, New York.The group is best known for its 1982 single "Rockin' It", [1] which was based on the Kraftwerk track "The Man-Machine", [2] and was featured in the 1983 documentary Style Wars.
Rakim's rhyming deviated from the simple rhyme patterns of early 1980s hip hop. His free-rhythm style ignored bar lines and had earned comparisons to Thelonious Monk. [17] [18] The New York Times ' Ben Ratliff wrote that Rakim's "unblustery rapping developed the form beyond the flat-footed rhythms of schoolyard rhymes". [19]
YoungBloodZ is an American Southern hip hop duo from Atlanta, Georgia composed of J-Bo and Sean Paul (later stylized as Sean P) formed in 1997. The duo were discovered by Kawan Prather and signed with his company Ghet-O-Vision, an imprint of LaFace Records to release their debut studio album, Against Da Grain (1999).
Peter O. Phillips [1] (born June 21, 1970), [4] better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper.He is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time, [5] and is often mentioned alongside DJ Premier, RZA, and Q-Tip as one of the mainstays of 1990s East Coast hip hop production.