Hip hop
Hip hop is a genre. Defining acts include Eminem, Agnez Mo, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lopez and Will Smith, and their records are the quickest way into the sound. Hip hop grew out of R&B, reggae rap, jazz blues, psychedelic funk and disco-funk. Its influence carried into Cloud rap, Crunk, Conscious hip hop, Gangsta rap and Drill, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 36 connections around Hip hop. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where Hip hop came from and where it led.
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Hip hop connections
Hip hop grew out of R&B, reggae rap, jazz blues and psychedelic funk, went on to shape Cloud rap, Crunk, Conscious hip hop and Gangsta rap. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
What influenced Hip hop
Sounds and acts that shaped Hip hop.
What Hip hop shaped
Where the influence of Hip hop travelled next.
- Cloud rapgenre
- Crunkgenre
- Conscious hip hopgenre
- Gangsta rapgenre
- Drillgenre
- Emo rapgenre
- Latin hip-hopgenre
- hip-hop soulgenre
- reggae rapgenre
- pop rapgenre
- punk rapgenre
- Pinoy hip hopgenre
- mumble rockgenre
- country rapgenre
- phonkgenre
- rap rockgenre
- Burbangenre
- jazz rapgenre
- Boom bapgenre
- Trapgenre
- Trip hopgenre
- acid jazzgenre
- Na mele paleoleogenre
- sampledeliagenre
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