Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music, or hip-hop music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.

Universal Zulu Nation founder Afrika Bambaataa is credited with first using the term (hip hop–rap) to describe the subculture in which the music belonged;

The first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop.

Jamaican Dj cool Herc began the culture of raping (hip hop). The beginning of Rap music, the lyrics of most the rappers were more conscious-positive, some were political (critisizing the ruling powers of evil leaders) and some were just words put together for the sake of rocking the mic.

As time went on; rappers like “Ice T, N.W.A (niggaz with an attitude) introduced the culture to gangster rap, and 2 live crew took it to the extreme of sexual profanity.

(The image of treating women as b**** in their videos, using of profanity, foul and vulgar words, the promoting of guns, drugs, violence etc), which derived from the conspiracy of the letter of willie Lynch, slowly began to creep into the rap music and the image expression of it.
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