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Hip-hop Hip-hop Music genre This article is about the musical genre. For its cultural origins, see Hip-hop culture. For other uses, see Hip-hop (disambiguation). "Rap music" redirects here. For the form of vocal delivery associated with hip-hop music, see Rapping. For the Killer Mike album, see R.A.P. Music. Hip-hop (also known as rap music or simply rap) is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s alongside an associated subculture in the African-American and Hispanic communities of New York City. The musical style is characterized by the synthesis of a wide range of techniques, but rapping is frequent enough that it has become a defining characteristic. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey (DJ),…

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