• Hip hop music, also called hip-hop,[1][2] rap music,[2][3][4] or hip-hop music,[2][5] "is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[2] 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.[6][7][8] Other elements include sampling (orsynthesis), and beatboxing."
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  • 1 Origin of the term
  • 2 1970s
    • 2.1 Origins
    • 2.2 Introduction of rapping
    • 2.3 Influence of disco
    • 2.4 Transition to recording
  • 3 1980s
    • 3.1 New school hip hop
    • 3.2 Golden age hip hop
    • 3.3 Gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop
  • 4 1990s
    • 4.1 Mainstream breakthrough
    • 4.2 World hip hop
    • 4.3 East vs. West rivalry
      • 4.3.1 West Coast hip hop
      • 4.3.2 East Coast hip hop
    • 4.4 Diversification of styles
  • 5 2000s and 2010s
    • 5.1 World and national music
    • 5.2 Crunk and snap music
    • 5.3 Glitch hop and wonky music
    • 5.4 Decline in sales
    • 5.5 Innovation and revitalization

• History of hip hop in two minutes (BBC)

• Tour Guide: Hip-Hop History (intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com)

• List of hip hop musicians (Wikipedia)
  

• Hip hop singers (Wikipedia)
  

• 100 Greatest Rap / Hip-Hop Artists (digitaldreamdoor.com)

• Hip Hop Planet : Photo Gallery (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
• EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY ON NEW YORK CITY’S MID-1970S’  MUSIC SCENE - 4 videos
  - "superb BBC documentary on the birth of punk, disco and hip hop in New York City." 
  (dangerousminds.net)

• Les Etats-Unis en QCM (questions en français) : Hip-hop (Ac. Caen)

• Keyshia Cole = "Princess of Hip Hop Soul"

• Honorific nickname :
  
  
  • Eminem = "King of Hip-Hop"
    
    
    
• Hip hop films‎ (Wikipedia)

• Honey (2003)

• Save the Last Dance (2001)

• Step Up (2006)
  

Hip hop dance