Hip-hop Definition & Meaning

hip-hop
noun
  1. an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
  2. genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

"Hip-hop" in song lyrics

See how hip-hop is used in real songs:

  • "just live, check to check and I stay hip-hop"
    2Mex — Return of Fernandomania
  • "So what a Senator knowin about hip-hop?"
    3rd Bass — Green Eggs and Swine
  • "Soft hard rock for rock, a force in this hip-hop"
    50/50 Twin f/ H.A.W.K., Ankaman — Freestyle

Words that rhyme with hip-hop

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