HipHop

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Hip hop music, commonly referred to as rap music, is a style of popular music that was created in the 1970s in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City by inner-city African Americans, Caribbean Americans, and Latino Americans.

It consists of a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted, as well as stylized rhythmic music (often structured around drum beats) that frequently accompanies rapping.

It emerged as a component of hip-hop culture, a subculture characterized by four essential artistic components: MCing/rapping, DJing/turntable scratching, breakdancing, and graffiti writing.

Block parties, which were particularly popular among African American adolescents living in the Bronx in New York City, helped to create hip hop as both a musical genre and a lifestyle in the 1970s.

Hip-hop music remained popular throughout the "bling period" of the late 1990s and early 2000s, with hip-hop influences progressively permeating other popular music genres like neo-soul, nu-metal, and R&B.

Rappers were able to gain a following during the "blog era" of the late 2000s and early 2010s thanks to online music distribution channels like social media and blogs, and mainstream hip hop evolved in a more melodic, sensitive direction as a result of the commercial decline of gangsta rap.

In the middle of the 2010s and the beginning of the 2020s, the hip-hop subgenres of trap and mumble rap became the most popular ones. Hip hop replaced rock music as the most popular genre in the United States in 2017

India also is seeing a new wave of Hip Hop Listeners growing with Desi Hip Hop getting recognition within and even across borders. Indian Hip-hop artists that have contributed to this huge rise of Hip Hop in India include Seedhe Maut, Divine, Naezy, and also producers such as Flamboy, Harsh Vardhan Raizada and Sez On The Beat.