The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to hip hop.

Hip-hop or hip hop (formerly known as disco rap) is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s in New York City. The genre is characterized by stylized rhythmic sounds—often built around disco grooves, electronic drum beats, and rapping, a percussive vocal delivery of rhymed poetic speech as consciousness-raising expression. The music developed as part of the broader hip-hop culture; while often used to refer solely to rapping and rap music, "hip-hop" more properly denotes the practice(s) of the entire subculture. The term hip-hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping may not be the focus of hip-hop music. The genre also centers DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.

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• Turntables –
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• Homo hop –
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• Nerdcore –
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• Baltimore club –
• Bounce –
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• Jerkin' –

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• hyphy –
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• ghettotech –
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• wonky –
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• psychedelic hip hop –

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• History of hip hop

• 1970s

• 1979

• 1980s
  • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
• 1990s
  • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999
• 2000s

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