Hop music songs, albums & artists
Hip hop music , also referred to as rap or rap music, is a style of popular music which came into existence in the united states during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. Focal points of the feud were east coast-based rapper the notorious b.I.G. (and his new york-based label, bad boy records ) and west coast-based rapper tupac shakur (and his los angeles-based label, death row records ), who were both fatally shot following drive-by shootings by unknown assailants in 1997 and 1996, respectively. Bosnian and herzegovinian hip hop is nowadays dominated by edo maajka in the region hip hop is often used as a political and social message in song themes such as war, profiteering, corruption, etc. The roots of rapping are found in african-american music and ultimately african music , particularly that of the griots 71 of west african culture. Emceeing is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes and wordplay, delivered at first without accompaniment an...