variants
or less commonly hip hop
1
: a cultural movement associated especially with rap music
2
: the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap
also
: rap together with this music
hip-hop
adjective
Examples of hip-hop in a Sentence
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Always a multimedia guy, Pharrell leaned into that sensibility at the show, inviting hip-hop duo Clipse to premiere a new song as clothes went down the runway.
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Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 20 June 2024
After all, seemingly half of Los Angeles was packed onto the Forum stage to dance along with the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper’s earworm of a song, which also doubles as a Drake diss track and possibly the last word in Lamar’s very public feud with the Canadian hip-hop superstar.
—Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
The band’s unique sound was partly inspired by jazz-sampling hip-hop albums such as A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, but mutated into something unique and genre-agnostic by their 1994 debut.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 20 June 2024
On the speakers expect the music to lean into R&B and hip-hop, with the likes of Kaytranada, Frank Ocean — and both Kendrick and Drake — curated by friends including producer Alexander Spit.
—Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 20 June 2024
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Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 20 June 2024
After all, seemingly half of Los Angeles was packed onto the Forum stage to dance along with the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper’s earworm of a song, which also doubles as a Drake diss track and possibly the last word in Lamar’s very public feud with the Canadian hip-hop superstar.
—Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
The band’s unique sound was partly inspired by jazz-sampling hip-hop albums such as A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, but mutated into something unique and genre-agnostic by their 1994 debut.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 20 June 2024
On the speakers expect the music to lean into R&B and hip-hop, with the likes of Kaytranada, Frank Ocean — and both Kendrick and Drake — curated by friends including producer Alexander Spit.
—Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 20 June 2024
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“Hip-hop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hip-hop. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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