How to Use hip-hop in a Sentence
hip-hop
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In hip-hop, as in life, women are the past, the present and the future.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
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What’s the most annoying hip-hop trend of the last 50 years, and why?
—Spin Staff, Spin, 15 Sep. 2023
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In the chameleonic world of hip-hop, Slim Shady is the hottest thing going.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024
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The hip-hop artist faced a maximum of 22 years and eight months in prison.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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In lieu of a red carpet, guests walked a three-lane track to a playlist of hip-hop hits.
—Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 25 July 2024
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As a teen girl in the early 2000s, I was shaped by hip-hop music videos of the era.
—Janice Llamoca, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
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And more than little bit of Old-school funk/R&B/hip-hop.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 22 Dec. 2023
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So, will hip-hop be fine without Drake for the next year or two?
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
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The lively hip-hop, pop track sets the stage for P1Harmony's next journey.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
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The place that hip-hop is in right now is a terrible place.
—Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
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The South Bronx is known as the birthplace of hip-hop and graffiti.
—Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 20 Apr. 2024
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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
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But there’s also a punk scene and an art scene and a hip-hop scene that’s amazing.
—Vulture, 9 June 2023
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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
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And part of that was because Robert Christgau loved hip-hop.
—Tricia Romano, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2024
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The new track finds the hip-hop star singing over a soft instrumental.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Rock music and hip-hop ruled the top 40 charts and thus, radio stations.
—Daniel Kohn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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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
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The conscious substance, that type of hip-hop is seldom heard now.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
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From the early days of jazz and blues to the rise of rock 'n' roll and hip-hop, women have made their mark on every genre.
—Monika Ilieva, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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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
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In the '90s, post-bop, hard bop jazz recordings are the foundation of hip-hop sampling.
—The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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It only got put up on YouTube on Tommy Boy [the hip-hop platform] four years ago.
—Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
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With a style that blends hip-hop culture with the surrealism of satirists like Terry Gilliam and Michel Gondry, this comedy takes no prisoners.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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If the main theme in hip-hop last year was the fight for supremacy among rap greats nearing middle age, a quickly emerging storyline this year is the next generation obliterating all of the norms old heads once held dear.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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