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2026-10-22T02:31:35Z

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Edb: Research-led Africa musical geography and article revision; existing recording sections and native bindings preserved.

2026-10-20T03:47:24Z

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Edb: Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

2026-10-19T22:07:55Z

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Edb: Replace rejected The Message clip with Kendrick Lamar, squabble up (2024); identify US context

2026-10-18T21:22:00Z

Replace rejected The Message clip with Kendrick Lamar, squabble up (2024); identify US context

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	! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes		! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes
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	\| ~~Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five~~ \|\| ~~The Message — The Tube, 1982~~ \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/~~LQGM7EhXRq8~~ \|\| ~~Sugarhill’s archival television performance represents early socially observant~~ rap and ~~its ensemble presentation~~.<ref name="performance-hip-hop-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=~~LQGM7EhXRq8 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five~~ — ~~The Message — The Tube, 1982~~]. ~~YouTube recording~~; ~~metadata checked 2026~~-10-18.</ref>		\| Kendrick Lamar \|\| squabble up (2024) \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/fuV4yQWdn_4 \|\| A contemporary West Coast US hip-hop studio recording, with syncopated rap delivery, a driving bass line and dance-oriented production. This is a US scene example; it is not evidence of Burkinabè or other local repertoire.<ref name="performance-hip-hop-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuV4yQWdn_4 Kendrick Lamar — squabble up (Official Music Video)]. GNX, 22 November 2024; video released 25 November 2024. [https://www.universal-music.co.jp/kendrick-lamar/news/2024-11-26-2/ Universal Music release announcement].</ref>
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	\| Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love \|\| Ladies First \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/1jhFTLFx7lU \|\| The label’s official video supplies an essential contrasting pair of MC voices and a collaborative late-1980s hip-hop recording.<ref name="performance-hip-hop-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhFTLFx7lU Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love — Ladies First]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love \|\| Ladies First \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/1jhFTLFx7lU \|\| The label’s official video supplies an essential contrasting pair of MC voices and a collaborative late-1980s hip-hop recording.<ref name="performance-hip-hop-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhFTLFx7lU Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love — Ladies First]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>

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 == Artists ==
 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Rakim, Public Enemy and Queen Latifah offer contrasting US entry points; OutKast, Missy Elliott and Kendrick Lamar reveal other regional and production worlds. MC Solaar, Racionais MC's, Positive Black Soul, Nasty C and Japanese group Rhymester help widen the listening frame. Artists' careers cross styles, and these names are invitations rather than national representatives or a ranking. Compare delivery, language, beat and audience address before assuming that the same broad label implies the same musical or social purpose. <ref name="hiphop-nigeria">[https://musicinafrica.net/node/14919 Music In Africa — Hip-hop in Nigeria].</ref> <ref name="ga-hiphop-japan">[https://www.dukeupress.edu/hip-hop-japan Hip-Hop Japan — Duke University Press].</ref>
 == Related genres ==
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2026-10-18T02:13:36Z

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	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
	[[Trap]], [[G-funk]], [[Drill (US)]], [[Chopped and screwed]] and [[Bounce]] identify more focused formations. [[Grime]], [[UK drill]], [[Reggaeton]] and other neighboring worlds connect through exchange without becoming synonyms. [[Funk]], [[Soul]], [[Jazz]] and [[Dancehall]] supply major resources within different histories. The broader culture includes practices that a recording genre list can only partly represent. <ref name="hiphop-global-museum">[https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/hip-hop-comes-smithsonian Smithsonian — Hip-Hop Comes to the Smithsonian].</ref>		[[Trap]], [[G-funk]], [[Drill (US scenes)\|Drill (US)]], [[Chopped and screwed]] and [[Bounce]] identify more focused formations. [[Grime]], [[UK drill]], [[Reggaeton]] and other neighboring worlds connect through exchange without becoming synonyms. [[Funk]], [[Soul]], [[Jazz]] and [[Dancehall]] supply major resources within different histories. The broader culture includes practices that a recording genre list can only partly represent. <ref name="hiphop-global-museum">[https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/hip-hop-comes-smithsonian Smithsonian — Hip-Hop Comes to the Smithsonian].</ref>

	=== References and further reading ===		=== References and further reading ===

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== Summary ==
Hip-hop names a broad cultural world and, in music discovery, a family centered on rapping, beat-making and DJ practices. Its wider history includes dance, visual expression, language, style and community organization. The music can feature sampled breaks, programmed rhythm, live instruments or combinations of them. Rap delivery ranges from tightly patterned speech to melodic approaches. No single beat, lyrical subject or social identity defines the entire field. Its Black American foundations and formative Bronx communities remain central while substantial locally authored traditions now exist around the world.

== Contemporary and trending ==
Hip-hop lives through neighborhood and online scenes, independent production, major entertainment industries, battles, clubs and listening cultures. Established recordings remain active alongside new styles and language-specific innovations. Different communities use rap for pleasure, self-presentation, storytelling, political address or other purposes without one function making a record more authentic than another. Women and other participants frequently obscured by a narrow masculine stereotype have shaped the field throughout its history. A contemporary overview needs both everyday local practice and transnational circulation rather than equating the most visible platform playlist with the whole musical world.

== History ==
Bronx communities developed influential DJ and MC practices in the 1970s within a setting of family life, parties, economic pressure and creative neighborhood networks. Records, touring and media carried the music into new markets, while other US regions built their own sounds. International musicians did more than imitate American accents: they made local languages, social experiences and musical resources central. French and Brazilian institutional histories, African scenes and Asian community networks show distinct adopted formations. The result is a multidirectional field whose later creativity cannot be described adequately as one city exporting a finished product. <ref name="ga-hiphop">[https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/hip-hop-bronx Hip-Hop in the Bronx — NMAAHC Smithsonian].</ref> <ref name="ga-hiphop-france">[https://www.culture.gouv.fr/espace-documentation/service-statistique-ministeriel-deps/publications/collections-d-ouvrages/questions-de-culture-2000-2025/40-ans-de-musiques-hip-hop-en-France 40 ans de musiques hip-hop en France — Ministère de la Culture].</ref> <ref name="ga-hiphop-sp">[https://hiphopsp.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/sobre/ Núcleo de Hip Hop — São Paulo municipal cultural program].</ref>

== Musical characteristics ==
Listen to how a rapper divides and accents a line against the beat. Rhymes can land predictably or shift across bar boundaries; timbre and breath shape personality as strongly as verbal density. A producer may make a short sample newly meaningful through repetition, layering and drum placement, or build a texture from synthesized sounds. Bass and silence can carry as much structural weight as a busy melody. Choruses, sung hooks and instrumental changes create other relationships. The musical question is how voice and track organize attention together, not whether one prescribed technique appears.

== Geography and communities ==
Broad US regional worlds connect major cities with smaller communities and adopted rural listeners. France, Germany and Britain, Brazil and the Southern Cone, West and southern Africa, North Africa, South Asia, Japan and Korea contain substantial locally authored scenes. The map uses selected broad fields to show those cultures rather than isolated studio addresses. It is not a complete census of global rap or a claim that all music within a country shares one sound. Oceans, languages and different social histories can separate meaningful landscapes even when recordings travel instantly among them.

== Artists ==
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Rakim, Public Enemy and Queen Latifah offer contrasting US entry points; OutKast, Missy Elliott and Kendrick Lamar reveal other regional and production worlds. MC Solaar, Racionais MC's, Positive Black Soul, Nasty C and Japanese group Rhymester help widen the listening frame. Artists' careers cross styles, and these names are invitations rather than national representatives or a ranking. Compare delivery, language, beat and audience address before assuming that the same broad label implies the same musical or social purpose. <ref name="hiphop-nigeria">[https://musicinafrica.net/node/14919 Music In Africa — Hip-hop in Nigeria].</ref> <ref name="ga-hiphop-japan">[https://www.dukeupress.edu/hip-hop-japan Hip-Hop Japan — Duke University Press].</ref>

== Related genres ==
[[Trap]], [[G-funk]], [[Drill (US)]], [[Chopped and screwed]] and [[Bounce]] identify more focused formations. [[Grime]], [[UK drill]], [[Reggaeton]] and other neighboring worlds connect through exchange without becoming synonyms. [[Funk]], [[Soul]], [[Jazz]] and [[Dancehall]] supply major resources within different histories. The broader culture includes practices that a recording genre list can only partly represent. <ref name="hiphop-global-museum">[https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/hip-hop-comes-smithsonian Smithsonian — Hip-Hop Comes to the Smithsonian].</ref>

=== References and further reading ===
<references />

* [https://thedharavidreamproject.org/ The Dharavi Dream Project — After School of Hip-Hop]

* [https://www.korea.net/koreanet/fileDownload?fileUrl=pdfdata%2F2017%2F09%2FKOREAMagazine1710_en_0929.pdf Hip-Hop Fever Grips Korea — KOREA magazine, October 2017, pp.28–29]

== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Hip-hop is a global set of locally authored regional cultures, with multiple US homes and substantial language/community worlds abroad. Broad fields include interstitial communities and domestic adoption; separate continental and regional fields avoid reducing the map to Bronx origins or famous recording studios.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
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! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

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| hip-hop-us-east || Eastern and Great Lakes US hip-hop landscapes || 40 || -79 || 1900 || 1 || A connected set of regional worlds extends far beyond New York’s municipal boundary.

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| hip-hop-us-south || Southern US hip-hop landscapes || 32 || -88 || 1800 || 1 || Broad contemporary and historical regional audiences include towns and rural adoption.

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| hip-hop-us-west || Western US hip-hop landscapes || 36 || -120 || 1500 || 0.94 || A substantial western creative and listening world.

|-
| hip-hop-europe-west || Western and central European hip-hop landscapes || 49 || 7 || 1900 || 0.94 || Domestic-language cultures form broad regional musical homes.

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| hip-hop-brazil || Brazilian hip-hop landscapes || -18 || -47 || 2200 || 0.92 || Local authorship and audiences extend beyond São Paulo studios.

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| hip-hop-southern-cone || Southern Cone hip-hop landscapes || -32 || -61 || 1900 || 0.85 || Regional-language scenes and audiences are connected across cities and hinterlands.

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| hip-hop-mexico || Mexican and neighboring hip-hop landscapes || 22 || -101 || 1600 || 0.83 || A broad domestic musical world rather than a few imported records.

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| hip-hop-west-africa || West African hip-hop landscapes || 10 || -5 || 1900 || 0.85 || Multiple regional-language creative worlds have substantial local depth.

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| hip-hop-southern-africa || Southern African hip-hop landscapes || -26 || 28 || 1800 || 0.9 || Broad regional culture includes connected local scenes and adopted audiences.

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| hip-hop-north-africa || North African hip-hop landscapes || 34 || 1 || 1900 || 0.78 || Domestic-language and trans-Mediterranean networks support distinct creative worlds.

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| hip-hop-south-asia-west || Western and northern South Asian hip-hop landscapes || 25 || 74 || 2100 || 0.82 || Regional-language networks extend beyond a single Mumbai studio.

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| hip-hop-south-asia-east || Eastern and southern South Asian hip-hop landscapes || 16 || 83 || 1500 || 0.59 || A lighter broad field acknowledges distinct language and community worlds.

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| hip-hop-japan || Japanese hip-hop landscapes || 36 || 137 || 1300 || 0.85 || A sustained domestic creative world with regional depth.

|-
| hip-hop-korea || Korean hip-hop landscapes || 36.5 || 127.5 || 650 || 0.85 || Domestic underground and wider media/listening networks.

|-
| hip-hop-australasia || Southeastern Australian hip-hop landscapes || -34 || 145 || 1500 || 0.62 || A locally authored adopted world distinct from US origin geography.

|}