How to Use hip-hop in a Sentence

hip-hop

noun
  • In hip-hop, as in life, women are the past, the present and the future.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
  • What’s the most annoying hip-hop trend of the last 50 years, and why?
    Spin Staff, Spin, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The hip-hop artist faced a maximum of 22 years and eight months in prison.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And more than little bit of Old-school funk/R&B/hip-hop.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 22 Dec. 2023
  • So, will hip-hop be fine without Drake for the next year or two?
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The lively hip-hop, pop track sets the stage for P1Harmony's next journey.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
  • The place that hip-hop is in right now is a terrible place.
    Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The South Bronx is known as the birthplace of hip-hop and graffiti.
    Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Sparks began to fly when the two artists were asked for their thoughts on the current state of hip-hop.
    Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • But there’s also a punk scene and an art scene and a hip-hop scene that’s amazing.
    Vulture, 9 June 2023
  • As several songs from the hip-hop icon, 58, played, Usher joined him in the crowd to sing and dance along to the beats.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • And part of that was because Robert Christgau loved hip-hop.
    Tricia Romano, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The result was a soulful and at times comedic ride through his life but viewed through a hip-hop lens.
    Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • That’s why Brian and I could take hip-hop songs and put them in there and then drop the dubstep bass line.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2023
  • As hip-hop myths go, the project is on the same cupboard as Detox and other would-be albums.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Rock music and hip-hop ruled the top 40 charts and thus, radio stations.
    Daniel Kohn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • At the time, Sunday night at the Tunnel was the most important night in hip-hop nightlife, and Chris ran it.
    Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Still, the Gap Band’s funk and R&B sound helped give rise to an entirely new genre of music: hip-hop.
    Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In the '90s, post-bop, hard bop jazz recordings are the foundation of hip-hop sampling.
    The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But my pick for the best hip-hop showcase of the season remains T-Pain's Wiscansin Fest.
    Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • Country doesn’t have a lot of the energy of, like, a Travis Scott show, or some of the big hip-hop acts that go in just raging.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • Usher is showing his love to one of hip-hop’s greatest.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Based around the season’s cold open, the song harkens back to the timelessness of East Coast hip-hop and features Bumpy’s anthem.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • Maybe the younger artists could continue to compete for that space because hip-hop’s a sport.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The hip-hop star teased the project last summer during the debut episode of his radio show, Table for One.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 24 June 2023
  • The event will also include a 50th anniversary salute to hip-hop.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 23 June 2023
  • Today’s great reads Behind the calamitous fall of hip-hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Common celebrating hip-hop in the city that spawned it.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2023
  • For a club to last that long — 20 years that primarily catered to hip-hop culture — is amazing.
    Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The Words Beats and Life Festival focuses on poetry and hip-hop at events around the city.
    Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024

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