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Rap is something you do, hip hop is something you live.






==Rap, religion and culture==

According to the spanish Wikipedia Rap is the music and Hip Hop is the culture... Why the English wikipedia doesn't even adresses the fact that the term "Rap" was more popular than the term "Hip Hop" for this kind of music until the decline of the nineties? And... What about Catholic Rhythm And Poetry? It's not even mentioned I think but there are other religious variations to Hip Hop... Or I'm wrong and only catholics waste their time on such propaganda? Herle King 19:02, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

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==Bias Against Certain Artists/Cultures==


==Wiki Education assignment: Communication and Culture==
I found a few unsupported, possibly biased claims in the "Asia" section of this article.
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== Semi-protected edit request on 13 September 2024 ==
Here they are, in bold:


{{Edit semi-protected|Hip hop music|answered=yes}}
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Add to [[:Category:African-American music]] and [[:Category:Hispanic American music]] because it originated with African Americans and Hispanics. [[Special:Contributions/163.5.121.233|163.5.121.233]] ([[User talk:163.5.121.233|talk]]) 08:55, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
"In Seoul, the Korean hip hop scene has expanded into a form of cultural phenomenon. '''Some fans assert that Korean hip hop artists possess skills that can rival their U.S. counterparts.''' Notable performers include Jo PD, Drunken Tiger, Psy, and Epik High. Some suggest that Korean hip hop music firmly stands as the respectable and '''socially-conscious antithesis to an often superficial and confused pop genre that pervades the Korean music industry.'''
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==Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music F24==
Hip hop music started gaining popularity in South Korea in the mid-1990s. Famous mainstream Korean hip hop performers often resemble R&B or pop music with a'''rtists mimicking the vocal (and dance) styles of rap acts from the United States.''' Early performers—'''who rarely penned their own songs'''—included Kim Gun Mo, Seo Taiji and Boys, Deux, and DJ DOC. The Korean language was initially used almost exclusively, unlike modern Korean hip hop songs that heavily incorporates '''-grossly broken-''' English. '''Seo Taiji, coming from a questionable heavy metal music background,''' often featured heavy metal guitars in his mixes, and other artists also incorporated techno influences.
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<span class="wikied-assignment" style="font-size:85%;">— Assignment last updated by [[User:SheridanFord|sheridanford]] ([[User talk:SheridanFord|talk]]) 22:40, 10 October 2024 (UTC)</span>
A few artists, including Seo Taiji and MC Sniper, also incorporated influences from traditional Korean music such as pansori or nongak (farmers' music). '''It was evident that the first acts were mimicking popular American acts.''' For instance, Seo Taiji's "Come Back Home" has vocal/production style resembling Cypress Hill. The first "rap" album that featured rap in every track was Kim Jin Pyo's first album in 1997. According to Epik High's rapper Tablo, "The form [of Korean Hip Hop], at least, has definitely been mastered now — the beats, the rhymes, the performances, the look — it’s indistinguishable from the United States scene. The social relevance, however, has a long way to go. The message is slowly catching up to the medium."
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== Requested move 23 November 2024 ==
I certainly see bias here. I don't think these comments reflect the characteristic objectivity of encyclopedias, and thus these sections should either be backed up with concrete sources or be deleted. Moderators, please consider editing this section of the article.


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==Not RAP==
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'''HIP-HOP isnt RAP'''


The result of the move request was: '''Moved.''' [[User:SilverLocust|SilverLocust]]&nbsp;[[User talk:SilverLocust|💬]] 07:12, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
HIP-HOP is a way of life and different urban ways of life that embody things like Graffiti, Break dancing, music, within music Rap and RnB are associated hip-hop styles of music...
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:I want to be an idealist like you, too, who has no idea what hip-hop is anymore. I want to live in the 1980s, before corporate America crushed breakdancing and made the rags-to-riches dream possible for inner city youth. I'm sure that somewhere in a corner of the universe that still isn't in the year 2006, people are doing what you're parroting about: graf, breaking, and "music." Unfortunately, for the rest of the world, hip-hop has been consolidated into a very competitive machine of just music. The rest of it all, from dancing to the fashion, comes from the videos and the live performances. You can still rep the archaic B-boy lifestyle all you want, you'll just look less and less relevant each day. --[[User:Modulatum|Mod]] 20:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
::I'm with him. To have rap redirect to hip-hop is a terrible terrible shame, one that only furthers the conglomeration that you identify,--[[User:Josh Rocchio|Josh Rocchio]] 17:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
:::This is just a confusion made by the media... EVERYBODY should know that HIP-HOP is a culture, and RAP is the music of that culture. Unfortunaly, nowadays hip-hop is promoted so many times like music that the average people says "I'm listening hip-hop". That makes sick, because YOU CAN'T LISTEN HIP-HOP, YOU CAN'T LISTEN A CULTURE!!! What you listen to is rap, and don't forget about it.
::::Hip-hop music is not rap. There are several hip-hip music acts that sing, not R&B. Dudley Perkins is a good example. Also instrumentals see [[Madlib]]. I think hip hop music need to be redone from top to bottom. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/70.142.48.18|70.142.48.18]] ([[User talk:70.142.48.18|talk]]) 03:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->
:I agree with the general sentiment about rap not being hip-hop. I somewhat agree with the fact that hip-hop culture is not as predominant as popular rap, but I disagree that it's as rare as described. I live in Chicago and we thrive on what's affectionately referred to as "underground hip-hop". I know graff artists who also make beats, b-boys who emcee, etc. etc. Of course it's both a blessing and a shame it's not on most people's radars, but that doesn't mean it's dying or archaic or nonexistent. But basically, without getting overly semantic, rap must include lyrics, and not all hip-hop does, as was pointed out (Madlib is a great example, as is RJD2). Hip-hop, after all, includes turntablism - beat juggling, mixing, scratching - which may have nothing to do with lyrics. Anyway, aside from the whole lifestyle/culture vs. music issue, my basic point is a track might be considered hip-hop but not rap, as with the aforementioned examples, so it makes sense that there be some differentiation within the article. [[User:Peccav1|Peccav1]] 22:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


[[:Hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|Hip-hop}} – This RM seeks to address two issues with the current title. First, {{tq|music}} is an unnecessary disambiguator. Prior consensus, [[WP:IMPLICIT]] or otherwise, has already determined the music genre to be the [[WP:PRIMARYTOPIC|primary topic]], as {{-r|Hip hop}} and {{-r|Hip-hop|its hyphenated counterpart}} already redirect to this page. If editors determine that this is in fact {{em|not}} the primary topic, then {{-r|Hip hop}} should not redirect here and [[Hip hop (disambiguation)]] should be moved. Among the topics listed on the disambiguation page, [[Hip hop (culture)]] is the only other real contender for the primary topic. [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/?platform=all-access&agent=user&source=wikilinks&range=latest-365&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&target=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip%20hop%20(disambiguation) Pageviews for the past 365 days] indicate that interest in the music genre article trumps that of the culture article by ten times, so it isn't even close. Related templates and categories such as [[Template:Hip hop]] and [[:Category:Hip hop]] do not use a "music" qualifier, nor do [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hip+hop%2Chip+hop+music&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 most sources], so there is no evidence "music" is a necessary part of the term. Simply "hip hop" is [[WP:CONCISE|more concise]].
==Reorg, more to come==
I moved some stuff around. I thought it best to start what a description of what hip hop actually is, so I moved that stuff into a section at the top. I tend to think that should be expanded, and I'd like to move some of the detailed history stuff to [[history of hip hop music]], where we can go into detail on every little thing that happened. I tend to our genre articles are history-heavy in general... I'm partially to blame for that. I also removed a section, put it in [[roots of hip hop music]] (because there's already a subarticle there, so I didn't have to write a summary). [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 08:25, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
:And its done. The history section here could probably use a copyedit to make it flow better, since I mostly cobbled together bits and pieces from the various sections. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 04:42, September 7, 2005 (UTC)


Upon further investigation, it appears the article {{-r|Hip hop}} was moved unilaterally to [[Hip hop (culture)]] in May 2022, but this actually gives us stronger evidence. Inspecting the [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2021-05-27&end=2024-05-27&pages=Hip_hop_music{{!}}Hip_hop{{!}}Hip_hop_(culture) pageviews before and after the move], we see that the culture article averaged around 1000 views per day before the move (green line) but dropped to around 200 after the fact (red line), an average that has remained to this day. This suggests most of the pageviews before the move were in fact looking for the music article when they arrived at the undisambiguated [[Hip hop]] page.


The second issue this RM aims to rectify is the missing hyphen. [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hip+hop%2Chip-hop&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Ngrams] show "hip-hop" as the overwhelmingly preferred term; this holds true when [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hip+hop_NOUN%2Chip-hop_NOUN&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 narrowing down to only noun forms]. Dictionaries that use a hyphen include the ''[https://www.oed.com/dictionary/hip-hop_n OED]'', ''[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hip-hop Merriam-Webster]'', ''[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hip-hop Cambridge]'', ''[https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=hip-hop American Heritage]'', ''[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/hip-hop Collins]'', ''[https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/hip-hop Britannica]'', ''[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hip-hop Dictionary.com]'', ''[https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hip-hop The Free Dictionary]'', ''[https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/hip-hop Vocabulary.com]'', and our own sister site [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hip-hop Wiktionary]; ''[https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/hip-hop Longman]'' was the only outlier I found. Several of these dictionaries specifically identify "hip hop" as the less common variant. Furthermore, the ''[https://x.com/APStylebook/status/578912657291489280 AP Stylebook]'' recommends "hip-hop" and the [https://www.britannica.com/art/hip-hop Encyclopedia Britannica] also uses "hip-hop", as do [https://open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5DAqbMKFQ00XGBls6ym Spotify] and [https://music.apple.com/us/curator/apple-music-hip-hop/976439539 Apple Music].


Even if you do not agree with the first part of this proposal, this second part should be uncontroversial as [[MOS:HYPHEN]] says to hyphenate attributive compound modifiers anyway, in accordance with standard grammar conventions. This is why we hyphenate [[African-American culture]] but not [[African Americans]]. Thus, if you oppose a move to {{tq|Hip-hop}}, please consider supporting a move to {{tq|Hip-hop music}} at the very least rather than blanket opposing. Finally, please note that the outcome of this RM will affect all hip-hop–related articles, categories, and templates; due to [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22hip+hop%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns10=1&ns14=1 the sheer number of pages involved], they have not been tagged here but will be moved accordingly.


[[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]] ([[User talk:InfiniteNexus|talk]]) 07:01, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
hiphop and rap are different.
*'''Support''' per nom. He explains it well. ~~ [[User:Jessintime|Jessintime]] ([[User talk:Jessintime|talk]]) 13:24, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
rap is rap.
*'''Support''' per nom. I agree that [[Hip-hop]] unambiguously primarily refers to the music genre, and already redirects to the current title. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:gold">'''''BD2412'''''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 17:07, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
hiphop doesn't have to be rap.
*'''Oppose'''. "Hip hop" can refer to hip hop music, hip hop culture, or others (see [[Hip hop (disambiguation)]].) Of these, hip hop music is the primary topic, hence the [[WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT|primary redirect]]. This does not mean that the title of the [[Hip hop music]] article needs to be shortened - doing so, in fact, would violate [[WP:PRECISE]]. No opinion on the hyphen aspect. [[User:162 etc.|162 etc.]] ([[User talk:162 etc.|talk]]) 17:22, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
for example [[Ciara]] is a hiphop artists, but she is not a rapper in the least.
*:Once again, 162, you are misapplying policy. [[WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT]] specifically states {{tqq|There are times when a disambiguated article title [...] may be moved to its base name (unqualified title) based on a consensus that this is the primary topic for the unqualified term.}} You yourself have acknowledged that the music genre is the primary topic for the unqualified term "hip-hop", so no further disambiguation is needed and your argument contradicts itself. Primary redirects only arise {{tqq|when the topic is primary for more than one term, when the article covers a wider topical scope, or when it is titled differently according to the naming conventions}} — none of which apply in this case. Most sources refer to the music genre as simply "hip-hop", and most uses of "hip-hop" refer to the music genre. In fact, virtually all of the dictionary entries I have linked define "hip-hop" as primarily the music genre. There is no evidence that "hip-hop music" is the standard term of the music genre, and it appears we were merely using it for [[WP:NATURAL|natural disambiguation]] purposes. This does not violate [[WP:PRECISE]], and you must explain your thinking into why you believe this to be the case. [[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]] ([[User talk:InfiniteNexus|talk]]) 18:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
This should be addressed
*::Per [[WP:PRECISE]], ''"titles should <b>unambiguously</b> define the topical scope of the article."'' [[Hip hop]] is not unambiguous. Hip hop music is hip hop. Hip hop culture is hip hop. Hip hop dance is hip hop. We gain nothing by making the title of the article intentionally vague. [[User:162 etc.|162 etc.]] ([[User talk:162 etc.|talk]]) 21:09, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
*:::You yourself wrote that {{tqq|hip hop music is the primary topic}}. Being the primary topic doesn't mean it's the only topic, but the most commonly recognized one. Hip-hop is all those things, but most often refers to the music genre. A primary topic is therefore, by definition, not ambiguous because most readers associate a term with that particular topic over all other. If you agree that the music genre is the primary topic, as supported by the overwhelming evidence presented, you can't argue it is ambiguous at the same time. [[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]] ([[User talk:InfiniteNexus|talk]]) 00:38, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
*::::>''"A primary topic is therefore, by definition, not ambiguous"''
*::::That is completely wrong. A primary topic, by definition, <b>is</b> ambiguous. Please see [[WP:DAB]]. [[User:162 etc.|162 etc.]] ([[User talk:162 etc.|talk]]) 17:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
*:::::Further, a primary redirect doesn't automatically justify a move of the article to a shorter title.
*:::::[[WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT]] gives the example of [[Einstein]]. The German physicist is the primary topic. He is quite commonly known mononymously as "Einstein". [[Einstein]] redirects to the article at [[Albert Einstein]]. But, "Einstein" is still ambiguous. There are a number of topics at [[Einstein (disambiguation)]] which are also known as "Einstein."
*:::::Or, to spell it out, for [[Hip hop]]. The music genre is the primary topic. It is quite commonly known simply as "hip hop". [[Hip hop]] redirects to the article at [[Hip hop music]]. But, "hip hop" is still ambiguous. There are a number of topics at [[Hip hop (disambiguation)]] which are also known as "hip hop." [[User:162 etc.|162 etc.]] ([[User talk:162 etc.|talk]]) 18:02, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
*::::::This continues to misread PRIMARYTOPIC and PRIMARYREDIRECT: Einstein is not titled "Einstein" because of naming conventions such as [[WP:SINGLENAME]] that take precedent, as outlined at PRIMARYREDIRECT, and would have certainly been moved otherwise; and if a topic is the primary topic, it means there is negligible risk of confusion with other topics of the same name, i.e. there is no ambiguity. But it is probably not worth trying to persuade you given all other editors have correctly read policy. I don't mean this in a disrespectful way, but it is concerning that you continue to misinterpret and misapply policy in so many RMs you participate in. [[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]] ([[User talk:InfiniteNexus|talk]]) 06:05, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
*:::::::My participation in RM discussions is in good faith. I have to assume yours is as well. [[WP:IDENTIFYUNCIVIL|Ill-considered accusations of impropriety]] are uncalled for, and I urge you to strike them from your previous comment. [[User:162 etc.|162 etc.]] ([[User talk:162 etc.|talk]]) 07:25, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
*::::::::I have striven to maintain civility throughout this and past discussions and have never crossed the line into NPA territory. However, calling out editors for their repeated misreadings of policy is not uncivil; [[WP:SPADE|civility is not to be confused with politeness]] (though I have nonetheless sought to remain diplomatic). While I recognize your comments were made in good faith, I am genuinely troubled that you may not have a correct understanding of Wikipedia's naming conventions, in this and previous discussions. This is not me trying to sound snarky. My advice to you would be to re-read our PAGs and consider why the RMs in which you went against SNOW consensus ended up passing. [[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]] ([[User talk:InfiniteNexus|talk]]) 07:38, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
*:::::::::Sigh. [[WP:IDENTIFYUNCIVIL|Ill-considered accusations of impropriety are uncalled for]].
*:::::::::If you legitimately have concerns about my contributions, then the place to address that is [[WP:ANI]], not here. [[User:162 etc.|162 etc.]] ([[User talk:162 etc.|talk]]) 08:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
*::::::::::I would agree that this manner of discussion belongs on 162's talk page rather than here, or failing that [[WP:ANI]] if the issues are not able to be reconciled in a polite way. In a standard discussion it just reads like being argumentative and clogging the discussion. [[User:Zxcvbnm|ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ]] ([[User talk:Zxcvbnm|ᴛ]]) 06:38, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' the DAB page should probably be moved here if not moved. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Blue">talk</span>]]) 18:33, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per nom. [[User:Theparties|Theparties]] ([[User talk:Theparties|talk]]) 19:55, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per nom. [[User:Zxcvbnm|ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ]] ([[User talk:Zxcvbnm|ᴛ]]) 06:24, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
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== Requested move 2 December 2024 ==
[[User:Theonejanitor|Theonejanitor]]
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I differentiate between Hip Hop as a style of music and rap as a style of music and I know that I'm not alone on this... I think that hip hop is typically more underground and complex and delves into deeper thematic themes while rap is more a part of popular culture and is thug stuff/gangsta stuff... [[User:76.188.98.191|76.188.98.191]] 23:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
:''The following is a closed discussion of a [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|requested move]]. <span style="color: var(--color-error, red);">'''Please do not modify it.'''</span> Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a [[Wikipedia:move review|move review]] '''after''' discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.''


The result of the move request was: '''moved.''' <small>([[Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Closure by a page mover|closed by non-admin page mover]])</small> [[User talk:Frost|<span style="color: #9cbfe8; font-family: Bahnschrift">Frost</span>]] 09:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
==Moved from top==
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A relative of rap actually predates Hip Hop music in country. If I understand what you mean by "country rap", (made popular by Johnny Cash and stuff like that?) Where they dont really flow over the beat, but practically talk at a steady spead. That is actually unrelated to Hip Hop Music. Them country folk call that there a "talkin' record".
* [[:ABN (hip hop duo)]] → {{no redirect|ABN (hip-hop duo)}}
:I moved your comment from the top of the page, because newer comments generally go at the bottom. I'm not sure what you're referring to, as this article doesn't mention anything about that. If you're talking about the link to an article that doesn't yet exist in the box ([[country rap]]), I think that's referring to modern stuff like [[Cowboy Troy]], not the "talkin' record". [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 01:17, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Acid (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Acid (hip-hop group)}}
::I stand corrected -- the link was broken. There's an article at [[country-rap]]. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 01:17, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
* [[:African hip hop]] → {{no redirect|African hip-hop}}

* [[:Alaskan hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Alaskan hip-hop}}
== West Africa (moved from middle of page) ==
* [[:Albanian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Albanian hip-hop}}

* [[:Algerian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Algerian hip-hop}}
What is the basis of the claim that Hip Hop, which is as far as I can tell according to what the evidence shows, a strictly American art form, derives in part from West Africa or Jamaica? This seems like a [[retcon]]. Hip-Hop requires relatively modern, Western, inventions to produce. I mean, you can claim that [[anime]] derives from cave paintings, and in some sense you might be right, but is it meaningful?
* [[:Alternative hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Alternative hip-hop}}

* [[:Anime and hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Anime and hip-hop}}
FWIW, James Brown and Gil Scott-Heron's performances sound no more like Hip-Hop than Bob Dylan's did, to me. Also, there are several rapping and dancing traditions across history and cultures, from India to Australia. There's also [[square dancing]]... So why are some sources considered more valid influences than others in qualifying for "root" status when they share similar percentages of features to Hip-Hop? This seems like subjectivism in the extreme.
* [[:Aotearoa hip hop summit]] → {{no redirect|Aotearoa hip-hop summit}}
:Like anything else disputable in Wikipedia, we determine what qualifies for inclusion using sources. Craig Werner's ''A Change Is Gonna Come'' traces hip hop to various things, including African music and the Last Poets, but doesn't mention square dancing or Bob Dylan (interestingly, he does mention "[[The Name Game]]" of all things and cites the whole section to Afrika Bambaata). This article should, perhaps, be more direct about citing sources, however. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 19:46, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Arabic hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Arabic hip-hop}}
::To more directly respond to your question: there's no basis for supposing that anything that bears superficial similarities to hip hop is part of the [[roots of hip hop music]]. Russian chastushka and Scottish mouth music, for example, may have some similarities, but unless there is evidence that the people that invented hip hop had any knowledge or interest in those subjects, it's not relevant. The people that invented hip hop were part of a culture that derives from West Africa, and who used various techniques that can be traced back through the 20th century, all the way through slave times in some cases and back to the very limited documentation we have of West African music prior to European contact. It's not about the percentage of features shared between different styles, it's about what techniques were used by a group of people prior to hip hop and were then by the same people adapted for use in hip hop. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 19:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Arsonists (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Arsonists (hip-hop group)}}
:::Blah blah. At any rate, for those of you musical illiterates who are interested, the first "rap" number of any influence was Bob Dylan's 1965 "Subterranean Homesick Blues" from "Bringing it all home". Please, listen to the sample provided by Amazon or similar retailers. This is a high-profile performer, and his influence has likely been greater than West Africa in recent decades. The term "rap" was in wide usage early in the 20th century and referred to the "talking" portion of folk songs (or folk songs that were nothing but talking). Having said this, it's worth pointing out that the question of "Who invented rap?" is similar to, "Who invented low-cost stink bombs?" It can't really be a point of pride, whatever the facts are.
* [[:Asian American hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Asian American hip-hop}}
::::Haha, completely innacurate. If you define rap as the rhythmic delivery of rhymes over a beat, it was going on in africa centuries before mr. dylan. If you define rap as hip-hop rapping, then the first example would be in the toasts carried over by [[DJ Kool Herc]] to America, which merged with the disco rapping of [[DJ Hollywood]]. I urge you to read [[Rapping]] so you can get your knowledge straight. Peace, --[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 21:14, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Asian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Asian hip-hop}}
:::::From the rapping page: "Rapping, the rhythmic delivery of rhymes." Well, I guess we could conclude that Virgil and Ovid were among the first rappers. Actually: I think that a good definition of anything is going to take into account the real distinctions between it and similar things. Rap has a certain "sound" that is easily discernable, and it's a sound that (among recordings I have heard) first shows up in SHB by Dylan. (The Rolling Stone's Memo from Turner is another early one.) Now, you can say, "Oh, but only music that is derived from Africa counts." That's a bit ethnocentric, no? Of course, we see this in other fields as well: The Vikings (and others) beat Columbus to the New World. Edison didn't really invent the lightbulb, Gallileo didn't invent the telescope, etc. Yet the credit usually goes to the big promoters, the salesmen, of a thing. Those African-influenced performers turned rap into a large-scale force, but they WEREN'T the inventors or even the primary innovators.
* [[:Atlanta hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Atlanta hip-hop}}
::::::Please cite a source if you want to make any changes to the article. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 02:55, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Australian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Australian hip-hop}}
::::::Hey, anon, please sign your posts. Despite another attempt at deligitamizing this page, you're wrong yet again. Yes, the greeks were rapping, by the definition of rhythmic rhymes. That doesn't mean they were the roots of hip hop, just as the vikings weren't the root of the United States. I urge you to think out you're largely flawed arguments before you place them on the talk page. And by the way, the primary innovators of rap have been in hip-hop; the prosody and cadence of Greek "rappers" wasn't nearly as complex as [[Rakim]]'s jazzed out, yet relaxed flow. The reason you think Dylan is the first modern rapper just shows that you need to go back and listen to some more music. Thanks,--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 08:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Austrian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Austrian hip-hop}}

* [[:Azerbaijani hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Azerbaijani hip-hop}}
==Brittanica error==
* [[:Backburner (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Backburner (hip-hop group)}}
I have made a listing for "hip-hop" at [[Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia#hip-hop]] because I feel Britannica's opening for that article is misleading or outright wrong. The issue revolves around the claim that hip hop is ''the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form''. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 20:31, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Bangladeshi hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Bangladeshi hip-hop}}

* [[:Battery Records (hip hop)]] → {{no redirect|Battery Records (hip-hop)}}
== Images. ==
* [[:Belgian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Belgian hip-hop}}

* [[:Beninese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Beninese hip-hop}}
Er...where did all the album cover images go? --[[User:FuriousFreddy|FuriousFreddy]] 00:48, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Binary Star (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Binary Star (hip-hop group)}}
:Oh...to [[history of hip hop music]]. Nevermind. --[[User:FuriousFreddy|FuriousFreddy]] 00:52, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Blades (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Blades (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Bosnian and Herzegovinian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Bosnian and Herzegovinian hip-hop}}
== hip-hop ==
* [[:Brasília hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Brasília hip-hop}}

* [[:Brazilian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Brazilian hip-hop}}
whena rapper becomes famous, what role does he play in the hip-hop genre, in terms of generic values and representation?
* [[:Bulgarian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Bulgarian hip-hop}}

* [[:Burmese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Burmese hip-hop}}
== American Rap ==
* [[:Canadian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Canadian hip-hop}}

* [[:Cartel (hip hop album)]] → {{no redirect|Cartel (hip-hop album)}}
This article is perfect in it's description of American rap. But, we can clearly see that it's an American point of view. Rap has a big influence in France for exemple since the 80's, and this article don't mention french rap before the 90's. Of course rap is first an American music, but other countries like France, Germany, Algeria, etc... has adopted it and adapted it to their own culture. So his article is great, of course, I think we should translate it in French for the American rap, but you should talk more about foreign rap in this article. I can't do it myself because I'm french and I'm not good enough to write in English in an encyclopedia, but I hope somebody will complete it. [[User:Korr|Korr]]
* [[:Chicago hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Chicago hip-hop}}

* [[:Chinese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Chinese hip-hop}}
== Vandalism? ==
* [[:Christian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Christian hip-hop}}

* [[:Classic hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Classic hip-hop}}
Quote: "making abundant use of techniques like assonance, alliteration,nigger loving and rhyme."
* [[:Classical music in hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Classical music in hip-hop}}

* [[:Comedy hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Comedy hip-hop}}
Is "nigger loving" supposed to be a technique of hip hop? [[User:222.153.168.32|222.153.168.32]] 07:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Common Market (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Common Market (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Croatian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Croatian hip-hop}}
HAHAHA that is classic, i just read this.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 04:12, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Cuban hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Cuban hip-hop}}

* [[:Custom Made (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Custom Made (hip-hop group)}}
"Can't Touch This" -- sample should be relabeled "Can't Play This" -- other samples play in vlc but this one comes up as an error. Did someone replace it with a bogus file?
* [[:Czech hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Czech hip-hop}}

* [[:Death Threat (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Death Threat (hip-hop group)}}
== why it should be moved ==
* [[:Delta (hip hop artist)]] → {{no redirect|Delta (hip-hop artist)}}

* [[:Desert Heat (hip hop)]] → {{no redirect|Desert Heat (hip-hop)}}
This should be moved to [[Hip-hop music]] and this page should be the redirect. Why? Because we've always referred to it as hip-hop.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 16:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Desi hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Desi hip-hop}}

* [[:Disciples of Christ (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Disciples of Christ (hip-hop group)}}
:Is that a [[royal we]]? --[[User:Jamieli|Jamieli]] 16:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Dominican hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Dominican hip-hop}}

* [[:Dual Core (hip hop duo)]] → {{no redirect|Dual Core (hip-hop duo)}}
Aha, indeed, apparently hip-hop is mispelled in this entire article. According to spellcheck, and the hip-hop community itself(KRS-ONE's writing, Kool Moe Dee's Book for example) it is in fact spelled hip-hop with a hyphen. Also, check out dictionary.com: [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hip%20hop]
* [[:Dutch hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Dutch hip-hop}}

* [[:EMC (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|EMC (hip-hop group)}}
The only reason not to change it is laziness.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 16:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:East Coast hip hop]] → {{no redirect|East Coast hip-hop}}
:Dictionary.com uses both, and plenty of others use it without the dash (see [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465037461/ref=pd_sim_b_5/102-9528632-2340933?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0609805037/qid=1134665518/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9528632-2340933?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Vibe], [http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/], [http://www.hiphop-directory.com/], [http://www.hiphopgame.com/index2.php], [http://www.africanhiphop.com/], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140280227/qid=1134665518/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/102-9528632-2340933?s=books&v=glance&n=283155] and [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465029795/qid=1134665518/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-9528632-2340933?s=books&v=glance&n=283155]. Plus, there's no logical reason to have a hyphen. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 16:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry]] → {{no redirect|East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry}}
::There are certainly sources both ways, but I think the best ones point towards using hip-hop: [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hip%20hop dictionary.com], [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:1 AMG], and the books that Urthogie mentioned. In my mind, the reason for hyphenation is to make it clear that hip-hop is one term. It is easier to understand "hip-hop artist" than "hip hop artist," because it is clear in the first case that "hip" modifies "hop," and not "artist." I am assuming that "hip-hop" is an adjective-noun pairing of "hip" meaning cool and "hop" meaning dance. See [[hyphen]] for details. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 05:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Egyptian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Egyptian hip-hop}}

* [[:Ethiopian hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|Ethiopian hip-hop music}}
Ok, i guess youre right that its okay to do it without a hyphen, thing is: is it required to have no hyphen? cus at [[Rapping]] we've been doing it with hyphens. --[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 17:27, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:European hip hop]] → {{no redirect|European hip-hop}}
:I think it's best to standardize Wikipedia-wide, and I'd prefer no hyphen. I'd imagine it'd be impossible to get consensus on that, though. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 17:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Felt (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Felt (hip-hop group)}}
::I think a consensus could be reached, or at least I don't see why not. Might as well try. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 05:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Feminist activism in hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Feminist activism in hip-hop}}

* [[:Finnish hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Finnish hip-hop}}
It's fine with or without the hyphen. Hyphenation is really a non-issue. --[[User:FuriousFreddy|FuriousFreddy]] 17:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Flight Distance (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Flight Distance (hip-hop group)}}
:Consistency is an issue though. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 05:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:French hip hop]] → {{no redirect|French hip-hop}}

* [[:Gambian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Gambian hip-hop}}
Wait up though, should it be consistent throughout a page's entirety? Even if pages vary over hyphen use, why make them vary within themselves?--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 19:57, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:German hip hop]] → {{no redirect|German hip-hop}}
:Definitely should be consistent within a page. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 05:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:GfK Entertainment hip hop albums chart]] → {{no redirect|GfK Entertainment hip-hop albums chart}}

* [[:Gh hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Gh hip-hop}}
Although I've always seen it primarily hyphenated, I don't really have a preference either way. --[[User:FuriousFreddy|FuriousFreddy]] 05:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Golden age hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Golden age hip-hop}}

* [[:Greek hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Greek hip-hop}}
I think I've seen it primarily unhyphenated; however, since both spellings are fairly common, we aren't obligated to use either. And since there's no grammatical reason for a [[hyphen]], we ought not use one. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 06:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Haitian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Haitian hip-hop}}
:Is there a way to do a google search that checks for the hyphen? The rule is to use the more common one, after all.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 09:46, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Hardcore hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Hardcore hip-hop}}
::Unfortunately, no. "Because some people spell hyphenated words with a hyphen and others with a space, Google searches for variations on any hyphenated terms." [http://www.googleguide.com/interpreting_queries.html] But the [[Open Directory Project]], while returning no results for ''"hip hop" NOT "hip-hop"'' or ''"hip-hop" NOT "hip hop"'', gives 1165 pages for [http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=%22hip+hop%22 ''hip hop''] and 913 for [http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=%22hip-hop%22 ''hip-hop'']. And almost all of the [[Special:Search?search=hip+hop&fulltext=Search|wikipedia pages]] are listed under "hip hop." I still think "hip-hop" is clearer, but it would be a lot of work to change all those pages.
* [[:History of hip hop dance]] → {{no redirect|History of hip-hop dance}}
::Tuf-Kat, I know we're not ''obligated'' to use either one, but wouldn't it be better to be consistent? I think we should change all instances of "hip-hop" in articles like [[Rapping]] to "hip hop." [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 16:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Hungarian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Hungarian hip-hop}}
:::I agree, it would be better to be consistent. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 16:44, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:I.O.U. (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|I.O.U. (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Icelandic hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Icelandic hip-hop}}
:::Disagree. We're not consistently using American spelling over english, even though American spelling is more common on the internet.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 16:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:InI (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|InI (hip-hop group)}}
::::That's true. The only difference I can see between American vs. British and hyphen vs. no hyphen is that there would be no wounded citizens of a certain country complaining if the spelling of "hip hop" was made uniform. I think it would only be possible to do this if there were no strong objectors. Urthogie, I agree with you that hip-hop looks better, but don't you think that it's even more important to be consistent throughout the encyclopedia? Just because there's no standard for American vs. British doesn't mean that there can't be a standard for hip hop vs. hip-hop. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 22:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Indian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Indian hip-hop}}

* [[:Indonesian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Indonesian hip-hop}}
:::::I'm fine with it being whatever as long as its not too disruptive. A guideline, rather than a policy, that is.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 22:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Industrial hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Industrial hip-hop}}

* [[:Iranian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Iranian hip-hop}}
::::::So your position is that preexisting uses of "hip-hop" that are consistent within an article should not be changed? [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 22:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Irish hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Irish hip-hop}}

* [[:Islam and hip hop in the United States]] → {{no redirect|Islam and hip-hop in the United States}}
:::::::I'd say feel free to change anything, but if you move a page, please make sure to fix all redirects so they go directly. Yeah, just don't do anything that subtracts from functionality.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 23:06, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Islamic hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Islamic hip-hop}}
:::::::Jabberwock, I told you I'd be ok with the change if no disruption was caused. But there are plenty of redlinks on this article still. Could you please create those redirects and make sure that stuff links to them?--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 13:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Israeli hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Israeli hip-hop}}
::::::::Sorry, I don't understand. Are you talking about redlinks within this article ([[Hip hop music]]), or about other articles that have links to [[Hip-hop music]]? So far all I've done is remove the hypens within articles - I haven't moved any pages. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|thejabberwock]] 21:11, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Italian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Italian hip-hop}}
:::::::::The article had redlinks to [[History of hip-hop]] upon my previous post. I'm just sayin you should move the articles if you're gonna link to those.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 08:32, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Ivorian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Ivorian hip-hop}}

* [[:Japanese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Japanese hip-hop}}
== styilize it ==
* [[:Jeff Jones (hip hop musician)]] → {{no redirect|Jeff Jones (hip-hop musician)}}

* [[:Jewish hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Jewish hip-hop}}
Theres so many needless newlines throughout. Someone should get rid of them. I eventually will but dont have time now.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 15:25, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
* [[:Jihadism and hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Jihadism and hip-hop}}

* [[:Kenyan hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Kenyan hip-hop}}
== first paragraph ==
* [[:Knifefight (hip hop duo)]] → {{no redirect|Knifefight (hip-hop duo)}}

* [[:Korean hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Korean hip-hop}}
first, DJ Kool Herc didn't invent hip hop;
* [[:LGBTQ representation in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|LGBTQ representation in hip-hop}}
second, Hip Hop natural center is the streets so it is more of an underground genre than of a pop music subgenre... despite these days.... If a hip hop act doesn't have street credibility, no matter if it is fully air supported it won't last too much... [[User:C trillos|C trillos]]
* [[:Latin hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Latin hip-hop}}
:Multiple sources say that DJ Kool Herc invented it. Second off, it is a genre in both senses, whether you like the mainstream or not. Did you know [[DJ Hollywood]] did disco in high class clubs, and helped invent hip-hop? In summation, please don't make POV edits that confuse the first paragraph. If you want to make it better, let's discuss what it's missing, first.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 17:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Lebanese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Lebanese hip-hop}}

* [[:List of Australian hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Australian hip-hop musicians}}
:Multiple sources can be wrong. DJ Kool Herc was the most notorious of jamaican immigrants that began to make an impact first in the block parties in the bronx and then in a major scale. To say Herc invented Hip Hop is just as much as saying the Hip Hop was born in him, and that's NOT the situation, as the ancient roots of the music, the Bronx society itself helped as well, and Herc was not the only Jamaican DJ from the dub music that was present in the late 60's in New York... there were others as well... the same goes from breakdancing... you cannot identify who invented it... it was just special social and cultural circumstances.... To say it in some way, you can identify the inventor of the "Scratching" technique but you cannot identify the inventor of Hip Hop music, nor brakdancing nor graffitti art... it was just a development process... Still, you can identify some pioneers, and Herc was one of them.... [[User:C trillos|C trillos]].
* [[:List of Canadian hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Canadian hip-hop musicians}}

* [[:List of Christian hip hop artists]] → {{no redirect|List of Christian hip-hop artists}}
Scratching was invented by guys like grandmaster caz and flash AFTER herc. Herc invented hip-hop by isolating the "break" from funk songs, plain and simple. Isolating the break is what characterizes hip-hop as music. Herc did not invent hip hop culture. He invented the music. I'm not downplaying the effect of society and music at the time he invented it, I'm just stating that he invented the music, which is backed up by numerous sources. If you have an example of a DJ who played hip-hop before him, you can prove me wrong. Until then, your edits are just a POV.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 18:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of Dutch hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Dutch hip-hop musicians}}

* [[:List of East Coast hip hop record labels]] → {{no redirect|List of East Coast hip-hop record labels}}
:mmmhh, what I have a difficulty with is with the word "invented" ... an invention cames from your imagination and usually after having spent too much time trying to figure out something (a concept, a theory...)... perhaps the article could say something like : "thanks to the work of pioneers like Herc, who first isolated the break from funk songs, the hip hop grew up from the 70's..." or something like that... and furthermore, the hip hop was not yet complete in its forms during Herc time, it was after Herc that it began to take form with the introduction of rapping.... What do you think? [[User:C trillos|C trillos]]#
* [[:List of Iranian hip hop artists]] → {{no redirect|List of Iranian hip-hop artists}}

* [[:List of Italian hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Italian hip-hop musicians}}
I think the problem here is you're thinking of the hip hop culture, which herc didnt invent. the music, he did though:
* [[:List of Japanese hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Japanese hip-hop musicians}}
#hip-hop music was the isolation of the break. it grew from that isolation of the break. noone thought it up before him, from what I've read(prove otherwise if you can, and I'll change it).
* [[:List of Pakistani hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Pakistani hip-hop musicians}}
#herc didn't invent hip hop rapping. dj hollywood did, according to kurtis blow.
* [[:List of Salvadoran hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Salvadoran hip-hop musicians}}

* [[:List of Swedish hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of Swedish hip-hop musicians}}
There were definitely many pioneers, but he did invent hip-hop music.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 22:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of West Coast hip hop artists]] → {{no redirect|List of West Coast hip-hop artists}}

* [[:List of West Coast hip hop record labels]] → {{no redirect|List of West Coast hip hop record labels}}
:Urthogie, first it is not like I have to prove something to you so you can accept a change in the article, this is not Your article, it is Our (wikipedians) article ... Still, I appreciate the time you are taking to discuss!... From Wikipedia, an [[Invention]] is first originated by an idea, which means you gotta conceived it in your mind first. When you improve something that's innovation. When you isolate the break from the funk it is discovering or even an adaptation or innovation... so at the light of those definitions Herc didn't invent Hip Hop music... as Dr. Dre didn't invent G-funk cuz he only adapted previous stylez... invention means from scratch... [[User:C trillos|C trillos]]
* [[:List of alternative hip hop artists]] → {{no redirect|List of alternative hip-hop artists}}
:Huh? Thomas edison adopted previous styles, such as earlier research. he used those "previous styles" in his invention, just as dre invented g funk and herc invented hip-hop. this isnt my article, that why were discussing. im being objective, so prove me wrong and ill see it!--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 22:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of best-selling hip hop albums of the 2010s in the United States]] → {{no redirect|List of best-selling hip-hop albums of the 2010s in the United States}}

* [[:List of certified hip hop albums in Germany]] → {{no redirect|List of certified hip-hop albums in Germany}}
== what makes hip-hop music fresh (question from anon)==
* [[:List of hip hop festivals]] → {{no redirect|List of hip-hop festivals}}
Please ask questions at the [[Wikipedia:Reference Desk|Reference Desk]]--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 00:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of hip hop genres]] → {{no redirect|List of hip-hop genres}}

* [[:List of hip hop groups]] → {{no redirect|List of hip-hop groups}}
== Article needs rollback ==
* [[:List of hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of hip-hop musicians}}

* [[:List of hip hop musicians from Atlanta]] → {{no redirect|List of hip-hop musicians from Atlanta}}
[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Hip_hop_music&oldid=32779287 This version] of this article is better and more informative than the current revsion. As a featured article, this needs to be exemplary of Wikipedia's best work? Are there any objections to rolling this article back to this revision (and then doing some tinkering to that version, such as the additions of more pictures, some formatting ,and fact-checking?) --[[User:FuriousFreddy|FuriousFreddy]] 03:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of hip hop musicians from New York City]] → {{no redirect|List of hip-hop musicians from New York City}}
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Hip_hop_music&diff=36594182&oldid=32779287 Here's the diff]], BTW, and I think I agree (especially the lead). [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 04:02, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of hip hop record labels]] → {{no redirect|List of hip-hop record labels}}
:I disagree. The history section in that version overlaps too much with [[History of hip hop music]](we created a seperate article for a reason). I do agree however that other elements of that diff are better.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 12:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of murdered hip hop musicians]] → {{no redirect|List of murdered hip-hop musicians}}
::It's a summarization of the history section; it is nbot nearly as in depth. As such, I don't see a problem; anything particularly superfluous can be shortened. --[[User:FuriousFreddy|FuriousFreddy]] 00:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of number-one hip hop albums of 2015 (Germany)]] → {{no redirect|List of number-one hip-hop albums of 2015 (Germany)}}
:::Well it was shortened. I would support a rollback if you kept the current history section and rolled back the rest of the article.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 09:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
* [[:List of number-one hip hop albums of 2016 (Germany)]] → {{no redirect|List of number-one hip-hop albums of 2016 (Germany)}}

* [[:List of number-one hip hop albums of 2017 (Germany)]] → {{no redirect|List of number-one hip-hop albums of 2017 (Germany)}}
== Pantera? ==
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* [[:List of number-one hip hop albums of 2019 (Germany)]] → {{no redirect|List of number-one hip-hop albums of 2019 (Germany)}}
" ''the first bands to combine metal with rap vocal techniques are said to be Anthrax and Pantera'' " - This is from the article... since when did Pantera associate themselves with rap music? The only song that comes to mind that seems like it could be rapping is "Primal Concrete Sledge" and that's not even close. Pantera were in many ways all anti-trend: this stance intentionally stood in direct contrast to bands like Limp Bizkit and other rap-metal acts who are commonly dismissed as "trendy" by most Pantera fans. I also question why KoRn are considered rap-metal (apart from their collaborations with some rap artists and the cover of Ice Cube's "Wicked"), as their vocalist's "scatting" technique is really as close as it gets to actual rapping.
* [[:List of political hip hop artists]] → {{no redirect|List of political hip-hop artists}}
:"We've survived every fucking trend. Heavy metal, grunge metal, funk metal, rap metal - and we're still here. We put everyone on notice that we don't fuck around. Our fans know we're true right down to the fucking core." - Phil Anselmo --> seems to cause problems with the claim that Pantera is remotely related to hip hop.
* [[:List of years in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|List of years in hip-hop}}

* [[:Lofi hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Lofi hip-hop}}
I think you're right about that. I've never seen anything about Pantera being rapcore. Feel free to remove that.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 07:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:MBS (hip hop)]] → {{no redirect|MBS (hip-hop)}}

* [[:Macedonian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Macedonian hip-hop}}
Although KoRn isn't a rap metal band, the rhythm of their songs is strongly hip hop-influenced, as their bassist sometimes demonstrates.
* [[:Machi (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Machi (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Malawian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Malawian hip-hop}}
I tink Pantera's "rapping" on songs like Primal Concrete Sledge, Walk, Mouth For War, and I'm Broken, the songs that appear to have rapping, is actually more Hardcore Punk styled singing, and the "rapping" on another song that seems to have rapping, Slaughtered, is actually a Death Grunt, and I think is there only Death Metal song, so I doubt that there is any rap in Pantera. {{unsigned|Ddude87|[[2006-06-03]]}}
* [[:Malayalam hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Malayalam hip-hop}}

* [[:Malaysian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Malaysian hip-hop}}
== Music Samples ==
* [[:Mami (hip hop)]] → {{no redirect|Mami (hip-hop)}}
Needed:
* [[:Members Only (hip hop collective)]] → {{no redirect|Members Only (hip-hop collective)}}
*Missy Elliot from Supa Dupa Fly
* [[:Mexican hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Mexican hip-hop}}
*Digable Planets: Blowout Comb
* [[:Middle Eastern hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Middle Eastern hip-hop}}
*Deltron 3030
* [[:Milwaukee hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Milwaukee hip-hop}}

* [[:Mongolian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Mongolian hip-hop}}
== Music examples ==
* [[:Moroccan hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Moroccan hip-hop}}

* [[:Native American hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Native American hip-hop}}
A comment on the samples. I've searched through the archives, but I can't find a discussion on which songs should be used as samples in this article. The samples should really be "encyclopedic", they should show the songs that marked hiphop history, show also the evolution of the genre, the different styles of hiphop, examples of the instruments used... I don't think these ones have these criteria. Maybe ''Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five's "The Message"'', The first major hip hop message song, is good; but the Busta Rhymes and the Jay-Z samples are not notable enough in hip hop history. I would like a discussion on which tracks we should feature, so these samples really offers information and knowledge. [[User:Cedar-Guardian|CG]] 21:06, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Natural Elements (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Natural Elements (hip-hop group)}}
:It should feature an old school track like the message, an afrocentric golden age track, and a modern song, at the very least. I agree most of them shouldn't be there.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 21:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Nepalese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Nepalese hip-hop}}
:I don't see anything wrong with the Jay-Z and Busta samples...both are very large figures in hip hop history, like it or not. Jay-Z certainly, considering the enormous influence he's - unfortunately - had on hip hop in the 21st century. Busta is more arguable; though he's very well-known and very unique I'm not sure he's a major part of hip hop history, considering he doesn't really sound like anyone else and spawned few if any imitators. Anyway, all of them seem to be worthy but if I were to remove one I would probably remove one of the Wu-Tang solo tracks: both of them is a bit unnecessary considering they're in virtually identical style. I would change the Mos Def sample to something from the Black Star album, to cover that whole Kweli/Mos Def/Slum Village/Roots afrocentric late-90s Starbucks-hop movement. And I don't think the Outkast track is particularly great choice (love the song, just not particularly representative); needs something that really shows their wild 21st century experimentation, like Slum Beautiful or GhettoMusick. --[[User:Jamieli|Jamieli]] 22:39, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:New Zealand hip hop]] → {{no redirect|New Zealand hip-hop}}
::GhettoMusick? That track was completely a copy off of other trends in electronic and hip-hop music. Although, I must admit it sounds very good when youre high :). Anyways, I say we should go with the [[KISS principle]] and go with one song to represent for each era. --[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 22:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:New-school hip hop]] → {{no redirect|New-school hip-hop}}
:::Whether it's a "copy off other trends" (whatever that even means) is completely and utterly irrelevant. If anything, it makes it even more worthy of inclusion. --[[User:Jamieli|Jamieli]] 10:03, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Nigerien hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Nigerien hip-hop}}
::::I don't see what it represents as far as the modern hip-hop era currently; Outkast was influential with southernplayalistik and aquemini, et al. but speakerboxx really wasn't significant musically(although it sold millions and millions).--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 12:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Old-school hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Old-school hip-hop}}
:::::GhettoMusick showcases a) electronic/"techno" influence on hip hop in the late 1990s-present, b) Outkast being very wacky, c) Outkast being a duo consisting of two very different people, d) their strong P-Funk influence, e) a group who both sold a colossal amount of records and were critically acclaimed, despite not really sounding like anything else on the mainstream hip hop market (or mainstream music market) at the time. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and Stankonia have been two of the biggest hip hop albums of the 21st century, like it or not. Some stuff from Aquemini or before would be welcome also however, there's enough variation. --[[User:Jamieli|Jamieli]] 12:54, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Onyx (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Onyx (hip-hop group)}}
::::::Earlier Outkast work wins in all of those categories except sales. As far as someone to represent the great sales of hip-hop, I'd say that 50 cent would be a better sample.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 13:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Pakistani hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|Pakistani hip-hop music}}
:::::::50 Cent should get a sample too, but he doesn't sound anything like Outkast. If you can think of another Outkast track which is more representative (of them) then go ahead. I'm by no means attached to GhettoMusick, it was just a suggestion as it has a lot of stuff going on. --[[User:Jamieli|Jamieli]] 13:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Palestinian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Palestinian hip-hop}}
We shouldn't choose the samples based on their popularity (or at least it shouldn't be the main criteria) but on their contribution to hip hop history evolution (that's why I opposed to the Jay-Z and Busta samples). These samples should really bring additional information and play the role of examples (much like images) for a better understanding of the article. Maybe the better solution is to choose a track for each era and for each important genre. As for the number of samples, 15 is a max. We may finally go through a voting process to choose the samples in the article. [[User:Cedar-Guardian|CG]] 17:52, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Paper Tiger (hip hop producer)]] → {{no redirect|Paper Tiger (hip-hop producer)}}

* [[:Paris Texas (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Paris Texas (hip-hop group)}}
:Jay Z is a pretty big influence on a lot of new MC's though...--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 18:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Partner violence in hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Partner violence in hip-hop}}
::So why Jay-Z isn't mentioned in the article? [[User:Cedar-Guardian|CG]] 18:21, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Pinoy hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Pinoy hip-hop}}

* [[:Point Blank (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Point Blank (hip-hop group)}}
:::The article really isn't featured quality. Its simultaneously bloated and lacking info. That's why I nominated it for removal from FA.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 18:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Polish hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Polish hip-hop}}

* [[:Political hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Political hip-hop}}
:I think that we need a lot more diversity here -- the majority of the samples we have are from New York-based artists from 1993-1999. Certainly this was a productive scene, but it's way overrepresented right now. My vision for this section is ultimately four groups of samples, each containing 8-10 samples, and covering 1979-1986 (the development of hip hop), 1986-1993 (the golden age), 1993-1999 (hip hop becomes mainstream) and 1999-present (the diversification/explosion of hip hop). That would hopefully allow us to represent a few more artists and styles, without totally overwhelming the visitor. Comments? [[User:ByeByeBaby|ByeByeBaby]] 06:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Romani hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Romani hip-hop}}

* [[:Romanian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Romanian hip-hop}}
::32 to 40 samples would be overwhelming to me... I think a better idea would be to split off the sample into the subgenre it represents, e.g., add a [[Run-D.M.C.]] sample to [[The golden age of hip hop]]. Then the most representative samples from each subgenre would be included in this, the main article. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|TheJabberwock]] 02:21, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Russian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Russian hip-hop}}

* [[:Salvadoran hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Salvadoran hip-hop}}
Why is there only 1 sample from the west coast and why is it MC Hammer? I would like to see Dre, Snoop, Ice Cube, 2Pac represented here if you are going to talk about the golden age of hip hop.
* [[:Samoan hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Samoan hip-hop}}

* [[:Scottish hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Scottish hip-hop}}
==Wow this article is bloated==
* [[:Senegalese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Senegalese hip-hop}}
This article is very '''seriously''' tl;dr. A lot of it is restatement of prior content and most of it doesn't even have proper grammar. "[blank] arose" happens at least 4 times in what I've read and edited of the article, that's lazy writing. This really isn't featured article material, there needs to be more editing done. Also, chart numbers need to be cited. Reduce this article by about 40% and it'll be readable.--[[User:Modulatum|Mod]] 13:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Serbian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Serbian hip-hop}}
:Agreed, bloated. I wouldn't oppose nominating it to be removed temporarily from featured article status for cleanup.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 13:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Silent Majority (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Silent Majority (hip-hop group)}}
::It's nearly 6000 words. There needs to be a reduction to at least 3500 words. --[[User:Modulatum|Mod]] 13:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Singapore hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Singapore hip-hop}}
:::Agreed, and it overlaps with [[history of hip hop music]] way too much. I've nominated it for featured article removal(see template at top of page).--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 13:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Sisyphus (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Sisyphus (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Slovak hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Slovak hip-hop}}
==Hip Hop isn't A. Rap or B. Around anymore==
* [[:Slovenian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Slovenian hip-hop}}
Hip Hop is dead. these "subgenre" are simply what replaced it. Calling a new "Gangsta Rap" musican Hip Hop is as bizarre as calling a contemporary composer classical.--[[User:Chompy|chompy]] 12:53, 2 March 2006
* [[:Sole (hip hop artist)]] → {{no redirect|Sole (hip-hop artist)}}
:Hip hop culture is focused almost completely on rap now, thats all.--[[User:Urthogie|Urthogie]] 13:47, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Souleye (hip hop artist)]] → {{no redirect|Souleye (hip-hop artist)}}
:No, hip-hop isn't dead. Calling hip-hop dead is like calling jazz music or classical music dead. Both these genres have been around for years, have suffered through all kinds of motions, have seen some fairly incredible stars, and have arrived in modern day sleek, stylish, and ever-changing. The only people who decry jazz or classical as dead are those ignorant of any developments that they might like. There's plenty of ridiculously boring jazz and classical music out there, there's plenty of pap that goes nowhere, from every era. However there's a '''lot''' of stuff that's well-done, emotional, and technically astounding. When everybody said disco died, house music promptly took its place. Hip-hop has seen a lot of changes the past 30 years and at every stage of it there have been the old generation naysayers and the disillusioned "ex-fans" who had vague and arbitrary reasons lined up for the death of their formerly favorite genre. It's still going strong and it's still making people money. You're wrong. --[[User:Modulatum|Mod]] 03:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Southern hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Southern hip-hop}}

* [[:Sri Lankan hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Sri Lankan hip-hop}}
No he's right. Nas said hip hop is dead. So it must be true.
* [[:Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label)]] → {{no redirect|Sugar Hill Records (hip-hop label)}}

* [[:Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label) discography]] → {{no redirect|Sugar Hill Records (hip-hop label) discography}}
==Political Emancipation==
* [[:Swedish hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Swedish hip-hop}}

* [[:Swish (hip hop producer)]] → {{no redirect|Swish (hip-hop producer)}}
In light of censorship, the wiki page [[Political_emancipation]] could use some attention. Currently it is only a stub. Particularly the explanation of the term 'political emancipation' entailing 'equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other “private” characteristics of individual persons' is construed to be an 'opinion' and 'not delivering a neutral point of view.' Does anyone have more information on the word 'emancipation' also being used in the political context of establishing (or any step moving towards) equality in light of the law? Inserting the [[Voting Rights Act]] as such a step of political emancipation, for instance, was repeatedly erased.
* [[:Swiss hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Swiss hip-hop}}

* [[:Taiwanese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Taiwanese hip-hop}}
The question one could pose, is: When there have been only 3 African-American Senators in modern times (out of more than the 1500 Senators in total), would you say that political emancipation has been achieved?
* [[:Tanzanian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Tanzanian hip-hop}}
[[User:FredrickS|FredrickS]] 18:44, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
* [[:Task Force (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Task Force (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Thai hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Thai hip-hop}}
== Reasons for not promoting to good article ==
* [[:The Dogs (American hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|The Dogs (American hip-hop group)}}

* [[:The Firm (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|The Firm (hip-hop group)}}
This article has some really promising elements. Some parts of the article are really well-written and very informative. However it is a long article that sometimes seems to stray from the essential elements of its subject or bog the reader down with names.
* [[:The Regiment (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|The Regiment (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:The Weathermen (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|The Weathermen (hip-hop group)}}
There are two things that I believe could really improve this article:
* [[:Timbuktu (hip hop artist)]] → {{no redirect|Timbuktu (hip-hop artist)}}

* [[:Togolese hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Togolese hip-hop}}
# Remove the fashion paragraph in the "Social impact" section - it can be better covered by [[hip hop fashion]] and, if necessary, [[hip hop culture]].
* [[:Toronto sound (hip hop)]] → {{no redirect|Toronto sound (hip-hop)}}
# Trim the "Diversification" section possibly moving some content to a subpage and integrating the revised content with another section - right now it is very dense on names and difficult to read.
* [[:Turkish hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Turkish hip-hop}}

* [[:Twin Cities hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Twin Cities hip-hop}}
If you do want to have long lists of names in the article, consider shifting them to a sidebox like in the [[Columbine High School massacre]] article.
* [[:U.N. (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|U.N. (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Ugly Duckling (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Ugly Duckling (hip-hop group)}}
Please feel free to renominate this article when these issues are addressed.
* [[:Ukrainian hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Ukrainian hip-hop}}

* [[:Underground hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Underground hip-hop}}
[[User:Cedars|Cedars]] 08:46, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
* [[:VVIP (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|VVIP (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Visionaries (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|Visionaries (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:Webster (hip hop artist)]] → {{no redirect|Webster (hip-hop artist)}}

* [[:Welsh hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Welsh hip-hop}}
I would argue that this article, due primarily to the section titled "Social impact," should in no way be regarded as a nominee for "good article." The said section evinces an extremely prejudicial view of hip hop music, superficially passing judgment upon it rather than bothering to consider precisely why it has the characteristics that it does.
* [[:West Coast hip hop]] → {{no redirect|West Coast hip-hop}}

* [[:Yemeni hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Yemeni hip-hop}}
To begin with, "degenerate attitudes" is a blatantly impartial phrasing. Although many elements of hip hop music - when taken literally rather than metaphorically, which is frequently the aim, anyway - fail to mesh with mainstream American cultural norms, the use of this language - even with the qualification that it is "sometimes" used - violates this article's neutrality.
* [[:Young and Restless (hip hop band)]] → {{no redirect|Young and Restless (hip-hop band)}}

* [[:Zimbabwean hip hop]] → {{no redirect|Zimbabwean hip-hop}}
While I for one appreciate the attempt to avoid stereotyping hip-hop fans, I believe the last two sentences of the first paragraph of this section best represent my objection to this article. Hip-hop music, many argue (convincingly), emerged FROM a context characterized by "anti-social behavior such as peer harassment, neglect towards education, rejection of authority, and petty crimes such as vandalism," and did not trigger it. These problems - symptomatic of virtually any community marginalized in socio-economic and racial terms - probably begat hip-hop, not vice versa. While hip-hop music may, on occasion, glorify these behaviors, 1) such glorification should be regarded contextually (as a means of protest), and 2) the self-awareness frequently accompanying such "glorification" must be considered. Anyone who has listened, for instance, to the Notorious B. I. G.'s "Ready To Die" should know that its nihilism and cynicism is accompanied by self-loathing, dissatisfaction, and world-weariness; after all, the album ends with the emotionally raw "Suicidal Thoughts." The statement being made by many, though hardly all, hip-hop artists is far more sophisticated than the author of this section considered: it is the cry of a marginalized population, desperate for escape (articulated with materialistic and sexual imagery), and consumed by self-loathing. And - in many cases - there is great hope: the hope offered by creativity and poetry. The hope offered by hip-hop music itself, in other words.
* [[:116 (hip hop group)]] → {{no redirect|116 (hip-hop group)}}

* [[:1979 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1979 in hip-hop}}
May 14, 2006
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* [[:1981 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1981 in hip-hop}}
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* [[:1982 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1982 in hip-hop}}

* [[:1983 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1983 in hip-hop}}
== History section ==
* [[:1984 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1984 in hip-hop}}

* [[:1985 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1985 in hip-hop}}
I just cut out about 1500 words from the history section: [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Hip_hop_music&diff=48212849&oldid=48050499 diff].I tried to avoid mentioning individual artists, unless they were extremely important, leaving that to [[history of hip hop music]]. I moved the diversification section to [[world hip hop]], and moved relevant info to [[breakdancing]] and [[conscious hip hop]]. If anyone feels I deleted some crucial information, please comment here. Hopefully we can get this back up to featured (or at least good) article status. [[User:Iamthejabberwock|TheJabberwock]] 02:30, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:1986 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1986 in hip-hop}}

* [[:1987 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1987 in hip-hop}}
<Scottish-American rapper Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP sold over nine million copies and won a Grammy Award.>
* [[:1988 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1988 in hip-hop}}

* [[:1989 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1989 in hip-hop}}
Scottish-American? Is that true? Is it significant? The [[Eminem]] article itself never mentions his Scottish ancestry, and he doesn't rap about [[Robert Burns]] or of eating [[haggis]], after all. Is this just a PC way of saying he's not African-American and avoiding some phrase like "white rapper"? [[User:Bogolov|Bog]] 11:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
* [[:1990 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1990 in hip-hop}}

* [[:1991 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1991 in hip-hop}}
:It is true. The Eminem article [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Eminem&oldid=56717191 used to] say he was Scottish; now it doesn't, but he is in [[:Category:Scottish-Americans]]. I wouldn't be opposed to "[[white (people)|white]] rapper", but "Caucasian" is apparently an Americanism with other meanings. <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 18:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
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* [[:1993 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1993 in hip-hop}}
::It's a problem isn't it? What does the encyclopedia need to say about Eminem, and how best to say it? It seems to me that the relevant facts are:
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::1) He is important commercially.
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::2) He is important artistically - influences other artists (I'm assuming this is true..?)
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::3) He is a white American, in a genre invented by, and almost completely dominated by African-Americans. (The only other famous white rapper is ... Vanilla Ice?)
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* [[:1999 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|1999 in hip-hop}}
::No problem for items 1 and 2. Number 3 is tricky. The only reference to race in the [[Eminem]] article (except indirectly in photographs) is in the sentence, "He became famous in the hip-hop underground because of his distinctive, cartoonish style and the fact that he was white in a predominantly black genre." Rephrasing the passage along these lines might be an improvement; using "Scottish-American" seems coy. [[User:Bogolov|Bog]] 15:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
* [[:2000 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2000 in hip-hop}}
:::I agree that "Scottish-American" is a backhanded way of saying White; I inserted White because if he is in fact Scottish-American, I'm sure there are people of Scottish descent who would want to know that and there must have been a reason why someone put it in. If he's going to be described ethnically, however, in a hip-hop context, the fact that he's White is the significant point. --[[User:Saurav|Saurav]] 10:07, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
* [[:2001 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2001 in hip-hop}}

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== rap v hip hop ==
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* [[:2004 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2004 in hip-hop}}
Not all hip hop is rap music as the first sentence seems to state. Rapping is a component of a lot of hip hop but it does not necessarily have to be there. Consider a song like "Metaphysical" by [[Handsome Boy Modeling School]]-- definitely hip hop, but not a single line of rap on the whole track. That is just one example. There is a lot of hip hop that contains no rapping whatsoever and the first sentence is very misleading. [[User:LearningKnight|LearningKnight]] 00:10, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:2005 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2005 in hip-hop}}
:I don't see what's misleading about it. It says that hip hop music is often called rap or rap music, which it is. The first sentence does not mention rapping. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 01:14, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
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* [[:2007 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2007 in hip-hop}}
:: "Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music." - That suggests that they are completely interchangeable terms. It's my understanding that all rap is hip-hop but not all hip-hop is rap. Does that sound right? Because it's not too clear in parts of this page and on the hip-hop disambiguation page. &mdash; [[User:Flooq|Flooq]] <sup>([[User talk:Flooq|Talk]])</sup> @ 03:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:2008 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2008 in hip-hop}}
:::Different people use the words differently, but they are sometimes used interchangeably. Some people believe that "all rap is hip-hop but not all hip-hop is rap", others might disagree and still others don't know or care about any differences, or use "rap" exclusively. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 11:08, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:2009 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2009 in hip-hop}}

* [[:2010 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2010 in hip-hop}}
== vandalism guard ==
* [[:2011 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2011 in hip-hop}}

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Why this page has not protection?
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[[User:MoonGod|MoonGod]] 18:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:2015 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2015 in hip-hop}}
:Because it doesn't meet any of the rules laid out in the [[Wikipedia:Protection policy]]. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 23:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* [[:2016 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2016 in hip-hop}}

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I think that this article now qualifies for protection on the grounds of persistent vandalism, so I've decided to see what happens if I semi-protect it. I'm not at all sure that I was right to take this action unilaterally, but I haven't found a policy or guideline advising against it. [[User:Tim Ivorson|Tim Ivorson]] [[17 May]] [[2006]]
* [[:2018 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2018 in hip-hop}}

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:I agree with your decision. <font color="silver">TheJ</font>[[User:Iamthejabberwock|<font color="blue">a</font>]]<font color="silver">bb</font>[[WP:EA|<font color="lime">e</font>]]<font color="silver">rw</font>[[User talk:Iamthejabberwock|<font color="red">&#664;</font>]]<font color="silver">ck</font> 18:13, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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==Watch list==
* [[:2022 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2022 in hip-hop}}
Guys, how I can add to my watchlist all articles from the "List of rappers" by one click? ;) --[[User:MoonGod|MoonGod]] 15:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
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== Category:Dead rappers nominated for deletion ==
* [[:2025 in hip hop music]] → {{no redirect|2025 in hip-hop}}

– For [[WP:CONSUB|consistency in titles of subtopics]] of [[Hip-hop]], which was moved from {{no redirect|Hip hop music}} per [[Talk:Hip-hop#Requested move 23 November 2024]]. The relevant portion of [[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]]'s nomination about the hyphen is: {{tqb|1=[https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hip+hop%2Chip-hop&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Ngrams] show "hip-hop" as the overwhelmingly preferred term; this holds true when [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hip+hop_NOUN%2Chip-hop_NOUN&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 narrowing down to only noun forms]. Dictionaries that use a hyphen include the ''[https://www.oed.com/dictionary/hip-hop_n OED]'', ''[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hip-hop Merriam-Webster]'', ''[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hip-hop Cambridge]'', ''[https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=hip-hop American Heritage]'', ''[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/hip-hop Collins]'', ''[https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/hip-hop Britannica]'', ''[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hip-hop Dictionary.com]'', ''[https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hip-hop The Free Dictionary]'', ''[https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/hip-hop Vocabulary.com]'', and our own sister site [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hip-hop Wiktionary]; ''[https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/hip-hop Longman]'' was the only outlier I found. Several of these dictionaries specifically identify "hip hop" as the less common variant. Furthermore, the ''[https://x.com/APStylebook/status/578912657291489280 AP Stylebook]'' recommends "hip-hop" and the [https://www.britannica.com/art/hip-hop Encyclopedia Britannica] also uses "hip-hop", as do [https://open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5DAqbMKFQ00XGBls6ym Spotify] and [https://music.apple.com/us/curator/apple-music-hip-hop/976439539 Apple Music].}} [[User:SilverLocust|SilverLocust]]&nbsp;[[User talk:SilverLocust|💬]] 09:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I have nominated [[:Category:Dead rappers]] for deletion at [[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion]]. <font color="green">[[User:Szyslak|szyslak]]</font> <small>([[User talk:Szyslak|t]], [[Special:Contributions/Szyslak|c]], <font color="green">[[Wikipedia:Esperanza|e]]</font>)</small> 06:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thats an asshole move. <font color="#5badff">[[User:Burgz33|---burgz.]]</font> 05:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

== Rap Metal Photo ==

Is there anyway that a picture of a Rap Metal album could be added on this page? {{unsigned|Ddude87|[[2006-06-03]]}}

:Maybe [[:Image|Image:Attack Of The Killer B's.jpg]] could be added to [[History of hip hop music]]. <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b><sup>(TheJabberwock)</sup> 03:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

== The best ==

Hello, my congrats for this article. It's one the best in this topic, and is surely better than all the articles related to [[House music]], [[Techno]], [[Trance]], [[Electronic dance music]] and their subgenres related ones.[[User:Brian G. Wilson|Brian W]] 19:16, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

== Term Usage ==

The term hip hop isn't synonymous with rap. Hip hop is a subculture within rap. Check out this site: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563537/Rap.html
:First, you misinterpret that site. It says "Although the term rap is often used interchangeably with hip-hop, the latter term encompasses the subculture that rap music is simply one part of." -- i.e. rap is a subculture within hip hop, which is essentially what Wikipedia says too. It also notes that hip hop and rap are sometimes used interchangeably, which they are. [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 03:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

==Origin==
Can somebody please show me how (e.g. cite a source) asians and latinos initiated the hip hop cultural movement. They didn't. I have done my own research for school. I have looked on other wikipedia articles. It is not the case. Hip Hop has been influenced by many cultures but it was not started by asians and latinos. It was started by blacks. The placement of asian and latino alongside black for the creation of hip hop is clearly and intentionally meant to exclude whites.
--Matt

:First, please [[WP:AGF|assume good faith]]. I don't see any signs of an attempt to exclude anyone.

:That said, it would be helpful to clear this point up. Why don't ''you'' find a source that indicates that hip hop '''was''' initiated mainly by blacks? I can show you how to cite it, or you can take a look at [[WP:CITE]]. Thanks, <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 02:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

<small>Following comments by [[User:MLSmateo]] moved up here for clarity <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 07:01, 10 June 2006 (UTC)</small>

"you will see that the music is made by people from different races or nationalities from all over the planet, but it's roots start with black people." --Afrika Bambaataa
[http://www.daveyd.com/bbamstat.html]

"So, rap music originally emerged as a way 'for [black] inner city youth to express their everyday life and struggles'"(Shaomari, 1995, 17).
[http://www.hiphopsorigin.com/schedule.htm]

DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash and all of these original DJs were black. They popularized the hip hop movement.
--MLSmateo 05:40, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

:All right, change made. <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 07:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

== Rock n roll in rythmic structure ==

I changed rock n roll in the rythmic structure section, to the more generic term "rock". My reasoning for this is that the term "rock n roll" usually refers to 50's era music, does indeed swing. [[User:Maxcap|maxcap]] 20:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Kraftwerk ==

"Trans-Europe Express" as first rap song? Influential as it was to early hip-hop, its impossible to assert that it's an actual rap track.

:Because? <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 01:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

:: um, Audacity, with all due respect, I don't think that's a great answer. I, too, have the same reaction about TEE: the first hip-hop song? seriously? I don't buy it. At a minimum, I would like to see this claim supported, preferably by someone writing on the history of rap (as opposed, say, to a Kraftwek history). [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 03:02, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

:::OK, that's fine; I've never heard the song, so I was asking for clarification. [[History of hip hop music]] says:
<blockquote>
The first steps towards the commercialization of hip hop came in 1979 with the release of what are usually called the first two commercially issued hip hop recordings: "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" by the Fatback Band, and "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang."
</blockquote>
:::Was "Trans-Europe Express" commercially issued? <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 04:27, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

:::: It certainly was issued, and was a well-known album. However, I would consider it early synth/electronica rather than rap or hip hop at all. Samples are available on the iTunes store (and on Amazon, [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DQSZ/sr=8-1/qid=1152282988/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4333706-6451042?ie=UTF8 here], but I was unable to get them to play).
:::: I think the section you quote is the typical description of the first rap songs. Googling around, I see mentions of Kraftwerk as an influence (and the song TEE was evidently a big club hit), as with this [http://www.nardwuar.com/vs/afrika_bambaataa/print/ interview with Bambaataa]; see also [http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/roots_of_hiphop.htm here]. That's not the same as calling it the first rap tune, though! I'll check the library next time I'm there, but for the moment I am changing the reference to Kraftwerk in the article:

::::: ''A club hit from 1977, with spoken vocals and strong, synthesized beats. This song strongly influenced the pioneers of hip hop, including Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaataa.''

:::: How's that sound? [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 14:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

:::::Great. <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 02:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

== Violent Deaths of Popular Rap Stars? ==

The current article seems to be lacking proper coverage of the violence that often overlaps the hip-hop scene. The late Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur went at it in their music and both followed up with shooting deaths. From weapons charges, child porn, tax fraud and other criminal acts, many hip hop stars have a 'rap' sheet a mile long. 50 Cent is another example. Under the 'Social Impact' section I propose we add a sub-section regarding the lives of hip hop stars outside of their musical endeavours.Edit: Added signature.--[[User:Saintlink|Saintlink]] 15:50, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

:Child porn? I can't think of any rapper involved in child porn, but R&B singer [[R. Kelly#Sexual allegations|R. Kelly]] was involved in underage porn, so I believe hip hop musicians are less involved than those of other genres. Regarding the main point, would such a discussion fit better in a more specific article, such as [[gangsta rap]], or a less specific article, such as [[music]] or even the [[entertainment industry]]? [[User:Tim Ivorson|Tim Ivorson]] [[2006-07-07]]

::The hip hop of the most prominent type is gangsta rap. Top 40 is [http://billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=Hot+R%26B%2FHip-Hop+Songs consistently] dominated by that particular sub-genre. While it may not be indicative of hip hop as a whole, to leave out the lifestyles of its most prominent members would result in an incomplete encyclopedic entry. Edit: Added signature.--[[User:Saintlink|Saintlink]] 10:58, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

:::Firstly, don't believe the hype. What makes you think that hip hop stars are more prone to involvement in child porn than singers (or more prone to violent deaths for that matter)? Secondly, again, if your quarrel is with gangsta rap and pop music, why should this issue be here? Anyway, an article about [[hip hop rivalries]] exists. To the extent that it concerns hip hop culture in general, shouldn't a summary of that article be on the [[hip hop culture]] article, rather than here? Finally, this article is a work in progress. It doesn't claim to be perfect and you'd be welcome to improve it. [[User:Tim Ivorson|Tim Ivorson]] [[2006-07-09]]

:: Understood about the article being work in progress, no argument here. When in doubt I always try to place suggestion on the talk page instead of placing controversial items in the main body without proper discussion. Thank you for your input.--[[User:Saintlink|Saintlink]] 07:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

== "nigger music" ==

I think perhaps "[[nigger music]]" is not an appropriate redirect to here... -[[User:Elmer Clark|Elmer Clark]] 11:22, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

: Wow, good catch. I put it on [[Wikipedia:Redirects_for_deletion]]. Thanks. [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 14:48, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

lol that made me laugh. I can just imagine some hick from the south typing that in. Wait, he wouldn't have a computer would he?

==Why aren't the mid 90s includes in the "golden age" of Rap?==
1994-1996 saw such classic albums as:

*The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)
*Nas - Illmatic (1994)
*OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994)
*Common - Resurrection (1994)
*Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East (1994)
*Method Man - Tical (1994)
*Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside (1994)
*Gang Starr - Hard to Earn (1994)
*Mobb Deep - The Infamous (1995)
*Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)
*Onyx - All We Got Iz Us (1995)
*GZA - Liquid Swords (1995)
*Smif-N-Wessun - Dah Shinin' (1995)
*Das EFX - Hold It Down (1995)
*AZ - Doe or Die (1995)
*Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995)
*Bone Thugs - E. 1999 Eternal (1995)
*KRS-One - KRS-One (1995)
*Fat Joe - Jealous One's Envy (1995)
*Nas - It Was Written (1996) (Don't kid yourself, it's an underrated classic.)
*Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
*Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money (1996)
*Redman - Muddy Waters (1996)
*Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth (1996)
*The Roots - Illadelph Halflife (1996)
*Xzibit - At the Speed of Life (1996)
*Chino XL - Here to Save You All (1996)
*Jeru the Damaja - Wrath of the Math (1996)
*Fugees - The Score (1996)

What, just because most of these albums are Hardcore/Mafioso/Gangsta means they're not the best? They dominate albums from any other era. Accept facts and move on with life...
-[[User:Tainted Drifter|Tainted
Drifter]]


:This is more relevant to [[Golden age hip hop]]; please comment there. <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 00:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, the term "Golden Age" refers more to time period (the period when something began). Just like Golden Age comics books are ones made in the early 20's century..Golden Age rap songs would pertain to the late 70's through the 80's.

--[[User:72.224.60.166|72.224.60.166]] 16:27, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I would disagree with this. The golden age didn't come up until the mid-80's and continued, essentially until the pre-eminence of the gangsta rap movement. Also, half of the albums above are actually important in the grand scheme of rap. Onyx wasn't nice enough to have one of their albums memorialized as the best. Additionally, Dead Serious from Das EFX was a way better album than the one you've listed. As well, you've overrated it is written. good? sure. best? no. The list is problematic on a lot of levels, but I can't get into that. The golden era was when hip-hop began to gain mainstream acceptance, which didn't happen until the mid-80's at the earliest and continued up until around the chronic which just blew the whole door off and made hip-hop an acceptable art form. That's why those albums are not considered classics along with the myriad arguments that can be made for or against each album.
:Maybe it's because of the ways in which I was brought into listening to hip hop and my age (28 as of this writing), but I think it's absurd to say that Ready To Die and Illmatic "are not considered classics." Rather than making an argument for moving the date, however, I think this illustrates that the breakdown in the article is a little too rigid--Chronic might be the culmination of Dre's work, or it can be seen as the beginning of enormonus commercial success for Death Row in the mid 90s. --[[User:Saurav|Saurav]] 10:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

==Give Peace a Chance==
Wasn't [[Give Peace a Chance]] the first rap song ever? --[[User:Ian911299|Ian911299]]
:I don't know - was it? <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 20:04, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
::Well I don't know. That's why I asked. --[[User:Ian911299|Ian911299]]

:::I mean, why did you think that? It doesn't look like rap from it's article, but I've never heard it. <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 23:25, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

::: There's more to rap than spoken lyrics. And "Give Peace a Chance" has much less of a claim than [[Subterranean Homesick Blues]] (1965) -- sound clip [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000024SD/103-4333706-6451042?v=glance&n=5174 here] -- but I wouldn't remotely call that rap, either. [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 00:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

==Categories==
I've removed the article from [[:Category:Music genres]] and [[:Category:Musical movements]] and made sure that [[:Category:Hip hop]], which contains this article, is in those categories. [[User:Tim Ivorson|Tim Ivorson]] [[2006-08-02]]

== "Criticism" ==

This entire section [[Hip_hop_music#Criticism]] is just awful. It consists of no actual criticism; just a set of accusations of who hates whom. This sort of fourth-grade nonsense is wildly inappropriate for wikipedia. Valid and sourced criticisms of hip-hip would be reasonable here, but I propose to remove the entire paragraph unless someone has a better plan. thanks. [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 18:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

:If anyone's think about adding such a section, consider that no comparable genre I've found has an equivalent here, and when you think about that, it makes sense: criticism is generally better directed at specific artists than a genre as a whole; it would be kind of like having a criticism section on the article about a certain nation or religion rather than one of its members. — [[User:Lenoxus|Lenoxus]] 23:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

== Problem Sentence ==

The second sentence quoted below either needs a citation or should be removed altogether. I move for the latter.

"In the 1990s, a prolonged confrontation between the West Coast gangsta rappers and the resurging East Coast began. It would lead to the death of both Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., in 1996 and 1997 respectively."

Is there really any evidence that a prolonged confrontation beween "the" West Coast gangsta rappers and "the" resurging East Coast lead to the deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.? Both murders are still under investigation. No one has been charged in either case. The police have not named any suspects.

Given that the police do not know who killed these men, it seems unlikely that we could know that their deaths were somehow tied to the "prolonged confrontation" described in the sentence above.

Maybe the person who wrote these two sentences has some evidence that the police are unaware of but unless she/he can provide it, I say we delete the sentence.--[[User:Ryanlovesyou|Ryanlovesyou]] 23:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
:It probably could be worded differently, the feud certainly peaked with their deaths. [[User:Maxcap|maxcap]] 20:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
::I am not sure that's right. My point was that since we have no idea who killed these men or why, we have no good reason to assume their deaths were connected with the feud. If we do not assume that there deaths were connected witht he feud, then we have no reason to think the feud peaked with their deaths --[[User:Ryanlovesyou|Ryanlovesyou]] 23:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Good point, on the other hand people associate(d) their deaths with the feud, wrongly or not. And there ''was'' a much hyped feud before their deaths, and afterwards...not so much (except in talking about whether or not the murders were related to the feud). [[User:Maxcap|maxcap]] 00:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

== Underestimate/overestimate ==
Britton ohl changed "One cannot '''under'''estimate the influence the genre has had over the numerous styles of electronic music" to "One cannot '''over'''estimate the influence the genre has had over the numerous styles of electronic music", (emphasis mine) but Omicronpersei8 reverted it. It seems to me that the more difficult it is to overestimate hip hop's influence, the bigger that influence must have been. I assume that the purpose of the sentence in question is to state that hip hop did heavily influence electronic music and so I agree with Britton ohl. Is Omicronpersei8 suggesting that hip hop had little influence over electronic music? If this causes confusion, perhaps we should reword the sentence to exclude ''underestimate'' and ''overestimate''. [[User:Tim Ivorson|Tim Ivorson]] [[2006-08-08]]

== Origins of the phrase 'hip-hop' ==
Does anyone have any information as to who first coined the term 'hip-hop' and when? Was the name created before or after other terms like 'rap'? I think the article would benefit from some research on this.
[[User:MagicBez|MagicBez]] 18:06, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

== Europe ==
In case anybody wondered what changes [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Hip_hop_music&diff=71230530&oldid=71201225 86.124.92.8] made other than adding line breaks, they are as follows. 86.124.92.8 added to the Romania passage
:The group has its own production label called Casa, signing and releasing albums of well known rap artists like ''Mahsat'', ''Grasu XXL'', ''M&G'' and ''Villy''.
and
:(They also own the 20 CM Records hip-hop label, signing rap group ''Anonim'' and ''Spike'' - in 2006 Cheloo, the main Parazitii producer released an album entitled ''Fabricant de gunoi''-The Trash Maker, which features a guest appeareance from the Killarmy, the Wu-Tang Killa Beez group). Also, R.A.C.L.A. (originally standing for White Rappers Legally Conceive Warnings) was the first rap group to release a Romanian hip-hop album, touching mainly "social" subjects, the group still exists today, releasing its 5th album in 2005 called "DEXteritate" (Dexterity). In 2005, another explosive rap group, Zale, launched its debut album, ''Chei Verbale''(with the single "Depinde de noi"), wich received positive public reaction. Since then, the group has made its own production label, called Chill Brothers Records, signing the well known ''ragga-rap'' artist Pacha Man (Known for his succesfull collaboration with ''African Reggae'' artists such as Moweed and Buppy Brown and british hip-hop artist ''Black Bishop'' of the ''Mobstarz'' and ''C-Rhyme Family'' crews), and a couple of other artists like Subsemnatu (Member of the Explicit rap group), Mike Pow ( a very talented ''R&B'' artist) and some well-known producers. They released their second album called ''Chill Brothers'' in the autumn of 2006.
[[User:Tim Ivorson|Tim Ivorson]] [[2006-08-23]]

== Rap is the same? ==
Is it just me or is all the rap now a days sound the same. Ive tryed to listen to it but Im like I hear this song way to much.
ΤÊŞŤ

== Featuring ==

Maybe I'm showing my ignorance of the genre, but it seems to me that the phenomenon of singles by "so and so feat. so and so with some guy" has increased exponentially in mainstream hip hop in the past five years or so. Does anyone have any insight into this? [[User:Maxcap|maxcap]] 18:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

:: Simply put, names means as much as, if not more than, your creative product. [[User:Paralleluniverse|Paralleluniverse]] 23:12, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

== Help with Vandalism? ==

[[user:FTHHI|FTHHI]] has removed the entire History section, replacing it with "hip hop is gay....." I removed the comment, but didn't notice that the whole section had been removed until after I had done this. And I lack the knowledge of how to revert changes... Could someone with know-how please fix this? Thanks. :) --[[User:TheSlyFox|TheSlyFox]] 11:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I figured it out. It's been reverted. :) --[[User:TheSlyFox|TheSlyFox]] 11:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

== first paragraph: "Latinos" ==

I've removed "Latinos" again from the sentence, ''...hip hop, a cultural movement that was initiated by inner-city youth, mostly African Americans[1] in New York City, in the early 1970s.'' The reference given is barely relevant, but mentions only African Americans. If someone can provide a citation for Latino influence, we can of course add it back, but the phrase "mostly African Americans" seems highly appropriate to me. [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 17:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

::I have readded the Latino's mention, along with a source from the Smithsonian. --[[User:RapPhenom|RapPhenom]] 21:20, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


==HipHop:Asia==
I removed the following from 'World Hip Hop - Asia' section because it was largely unclear. Anyone with knowledge of hip hop in SL could translate/update? [[User:Fauxvegan|Fauxvegan]] 10:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

In [[Sri Lanka]], the Hip Hop Cultutre rules the island. From The Capito Colombo ([[C-Town]]) to the the Hill Capitol Kandy ([[Hill City]]). Where in C-Town Hip Hop Culture is Ruled By Iraj N' Da ILL NOIZE Kru. ILL NOIZE Kru consists of Krishan, B.K. Yawanan... And Up In Da Hillz in da Heart of the Island, Hill City Hip Hop over Powered By [[dBnets]],[[Redrum]]. dBnets Made Up of 4 members Sandun, Mithila, Hasika N' Heshan A.K.A. [[Sw!Tch BLadE]] or [[Switch Blade]]. Where up in Kandy the ethnic sri lankan music is combind with all sorts of Hip hop cultures, East, West, Mid West, Dirty South, Crunk... yes iraj and the crew is the pionners of the hip hop in sri lanka bur the new rapper chinthy who is doing a greate job alone is the one and only professional sinhala rapper.hip hop is quite strange to sri lanka because of beaing an island.further one important thing remains that the sri lankan identity has not been showed by any one yet.

==Music of South Florida AfD==
Since I'm not an expert on the Rap music scene, I don't know if it's worth saving or not, but the [[Music of South Florida]] article is being nominated for deletion. Any input from experts in the rap scene would be welcome to improve the article and to provide an opinion at [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Music_of_South_Florida#.5B.5BMusic_of_South_Florida.5D.5D]]</br>
Thanks! [[User:Dreadlocke|Dreadlocke]] <small> [[User talk:Dreadlocke|<span class="Unicode">☥</span>]] </small> 17:16, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

TUPAC

Tupac was a true legend. He will forever be one of the realist and truest MCs ever. I still love his 2pacalypse Now CD! Tupac was a "real" musician because he talked about poverty, and racism. He wasn't like these other loser rappers today talking about cars and clothes, he was an epic rapper. When Tupac said Thug life, he meant it as a meaning to improve the impoverished community and have people rise up against their own problems in life. Basically, he meant it as a positive thing. But the Media, and all those nutheads like Bob Dole and Dan Quayle, kept making Tupac to be negative. They kept trying to portray him as this evil person, wherelse he was exactly opposite. Tupac to me, represented the intelligence of the black race that the society tries to hinder and destroy. He represented the unheard of voices and the consciousness rarely seen in a lot of rappers. That's why the media and the society kept bothering him, because they knew that he was telling the truth. As Tupac said in the "Rebel of the Underground": "The world's most dangerous weapon is the educated black man"! Apparently, he was right, and that is why they feared him. Sadly, the media and the press alike were not going to quick untill Pac no longer existed, but you know what, his legacy will last forever, and as much as the ignorant society may whine and act stupid, I will always remember him as a big brother-RIP Tupac FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!
Our society, I think has been destroyed by ignorance and stupidity, and we need to get out of it. Sadly, the rap artists who talk about life, poverty, and racism get criticised, wherelese the ones who only talk about cars and clothes are'nt. Do you know why? The society is not ready for the truth, and they can't handle the truth. While rappers talk about all the things their money can buy, they are not improving their community, they are just putting more money into the hands of their executive owner's pockets. I think we all need to rexamine the destruction of ignorance we are causing in our world and make a change!



==Apology==

Just wanted to apologise for my vandalism of this page. I didn't mean to delete it all, but still that's not an excuse, this isn't a forum so I shouldn't have posted my gripes about rap here.

Thanks and sorry again. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/212.1.145.30|212.1.145.30]] ([[User talk:212.1.145.30|talk]]) 11:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

Err....ok [[User:Powelldinho|Powelldinho]] 11:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

== Influence on youth ==

Excerpt from the section:

:'''''While the majority of listeners are able to distinguish entertainment from lessons in social conduct''', an evident pseudo-gangsta sub-culture has risen amongst North American youth.''

That seems to be in tune with [[50 Cent]]'s "the thug life portrayed in gangsta rap is nothing but entertainment" mindset. Reword? &mdash; '''[[User:Phantasy Phanatik|Phantasy Phanatik]]''' | [[User talk:Phantasy Phanatik|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Phantasy Phanatik|contribs]] 11:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

== Product Placement section ==

the new section on "product placement" must be toned down signficantly. A brief mention of the issue is certainly in order, but the whole section reads as ridiculously POV. "Rappers worldwide have bowed down before large corporations as shills"? Can you provide evidence beyond the article that anyone is offended by the trend? I would suggest that cutting it to a non-POV description at about a third of the current length would be an adequate treatment. [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 16:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

== Hip hop began in The Bronx, a borough in New York City, when DJs began isolating the percussion break from funk and disco songs. ==o

wtf? hip hop instrumentals were a result of the [[acid house]] movement. --[[User_talk:AlexOvShaolin|<font color="Grey">'''Alex'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/AlexOvShaolin|<font color="Black">Ov</font>]][[Shaolin|<font color="red">'''Shaolin'''</font>]] 17:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

: huh? hip-hop long predates acid house. [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 23:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

: should have checked my facts, thanx for straightening that out. --[[User_talk:AlexOvShaolin|<font color="Grey">'''Alex'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/AlexOvShaolin|<font color="Black">Ov</font>]][[Shaolin|<font color="red">'''Shaolin'''</font>]] 03:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

== "Language" ==

The language section is ridiculous... It serves a purpose, but could we please use more relevant slang than "yo" "phat" and "what's the dilly, yo"? And saying "Of special importance is the rule-based slang of Snoop Dogg and E-40 -izz to the middle of words" has no basis in fact. Of special importance to whom? Not even those two rappers use it that frequently anymore. And though the first recorded use of it may have been Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus," I was under the impression that it was a Bay Area (California) slang, thus derived from there (as both emcees are from California, E-40 the Bay specifically) not the Frankie Smith song. And to that point, it should be mentioned that most emcee's slang is strongly influenced (defined even) by the city which they're from and that many cities, the Bay Area in particular, take a lot of pride in their slang. Also, that through popular Hip Hop recordings, certain slang expands from regional or city-exclusive to becoming used nationwide by the Hip Hop: "Diss" is mentioned in the article, but other examples could be mentioned, ones that expanded from their city but not necessarily to the non-Hip Hop public (e.g. Ballin, Stunt, Gwop, etc.).

Also, different subject, but I find it odd that there's no mention of the word "Nigga" in either the Hip Hop Music or the Rapping wikipedia article. Considering the controversy over the word's use and its prevalence in Rap music since the 1990s, it's at the very least worth a mention. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/74.129.132.177|74.129.132.177]] ([[User talk:74.129.132.177|talk]]) 07:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

== Hip-Hop: Art or Crap? ==

hi, i was just watching CNN's specal: hip-hop: art or poison?
and i got the idea to post this if anyony has anything to say please fell free to speak!--[[User:Saikano|Lolicon(Anti Child Porn)Saikano]] 17:52, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

:Wikipedia is not a discussion forum. Talk pages are for talking about the ''article'', not the subject matter. [[User:Friday|Friday]] [[User talk:Friday|(talk)]] 18:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


== This article is a joke ==
The beginning of this article is great talking about the history of rap coming from the streets of New York, but that's about where it ends. No mention of [[Chuck D]] or [[Ice-T]]? How can you ''possibly'' have an article about rap and not even mention Chuck D? Someone try to explain why this article should even ''exist'' without '''Chuck D''' please. Not to mention that Ice-T was the first [[gangster rapper]]. I am at a loss. And it was a ''[[featured article]]''???[[User:Jsderwin|Jsderwin]] 20:04, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

== Sample for 'U Can't Touch This' ==
The sample for the song says this:
MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" (file info) — play in browser (beta)
From the 1990 pop-rap album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, which sold 10 million copies, and, despite poor response from critics, is still the top-selling rap album of all time.

its not the best selling rap album of all time, though at one point it might have been.
{{unsigned|153.18.17.22}}

: You're right. I reworded it. The RIAA best-sellers list is [http://www.riaa.com/gp/bestsellers/topalbums.asp here], and I see that [[Speakerboxxx]] (11.0 million) and [[Crazysexycool]] (11.0 million) have both outsold [[Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em]] (10.0 million). [[User:Bikeable|bikeable]] [[User talk:Bikeable|(talk)]] 02:05, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

=== Grammatical Error ===

"In 1979, the first commercially issued hip hop recordings were released: "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang which became a Top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard pop singles chart."

Recordings is plural, yet only one song is listed. Not sure if this means that there are only one or two other examples to mention or if Rapper's Delight is one of dozens of songs. 6 March 2007

== psz change this ==

Albania Albania and Kosovo have been a revolution in the hip-hop industry in Europe. Rap bands like The Bloody Alboz, Etno Engjujt, WNC, 2Po2, Double G Army, Tingulli 3, DMC, Rudi and others have striven to portray the real Albanian attitude of today. Albanian rappers like Rebel aka UniKKatiL, Lyrical Son and Milot have become successful in part because their high sound quality and excellent performance standards are considered the equal of anything available from American or other sources.

1) for those less informed .. albania is a country .. and kosovo is a province of serbia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo)
so it would be great if someone with access to the material could remove kosovo from the list

2) the stuff and the bands pointed out for the sebia is not correct.. but i would prefer if someone would point out to me the number of posts or other things that i need to correct it myself later on...
thanks <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:Aupicku|Aupicku]] ([[User talk:Aupicku|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Aupicku|contribs]]) 15:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

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"Monster Mash" from 1962(?) should get credit as the first rap record, at least before the others.

== Please fix this (semi-protected) ==


*'''Support''', per nom rationale--[[User:3family6|<b style="color:navy">3family6</b>]] ([[User talk:3family6|<u style="color:black">Talk to me</u>]] &#124; [[Special:Contributions/3family6|<small style="color:purple">See what I have done</small>]]) 13:13, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
The 'Hip hop music' article has been blanked and replaced by some advertising for a musical group, and I can't fix it because I am not registered. Please revert it to the version before the one by Snakeguitars. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/24.118.0.28|24.118.0.28]] ([[User talk:24.118.0.28|talk]]) 02:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->
*'''Oppose'''. This suggested move is too big to make with faulty reasoning. If sources agreed on the hyphen, which they don't, then we would only insert the hyphen when it is used as a descriptor term to modify another word. In that case we would write "the music of hip hop" without the hyphen, and "hip-hop music" with the hyphen. In any case, the legion of sources not using the hyphen presents a massive blockade to the suggested move. Many scholarly books exist that do not hyphenate the topic, such as [https://books.google.com/books?id=ramK5tnh_fQC ''Religion and Hip Hop''], [https://books.google.com/books?id=9O4G_FKdpBIC ''The Hip Hop Movement''], [https://books.google.com/books?id=kwrwBLYM-8IC ''Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World''], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Mva_xJa_2Q0C ''The Soul of Hip Hop''], [https://books.google.com/books?id=wzUlDwAAQBAJ ''Hip Hop Versus Rap: The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge''], [https://books.google.com/books?id=8IptttVqkBYC ''Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture''], [https://books.google.com/books?id=hS8rDwAAQBAJ ''From Soul to Hip Hop''], [https://books.google.com/books?id=X1PIAgAAQBAJ ''White Hip Hoppers, Language and Identity in Post-Modern America''], and [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Pa-DwAAQBAJ ''Beyond Christian Hip Hop'']. [[User:Binksternet|Binksternet]] ([[User talk:Binksternet|talk]]) 14:10, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
:*'''Support moves''', if I'm understanding your comment correctly, I think the nominator's proposal addresses your concerns; they narrow the search to noun terms. The noun can have a hyphen in it; it's not necessarily required that it be an adjective form (i.e. "hip-hop music") to have a hyphen in it. Even the [[Hip-hop]] wikipedia article has the hyphenated noun form in both title and in much of the body.
::Either way I think the other evidence presented in the proposal is really significant; the anecdotes you present don't outweigh them I think. [[User:seefooddiet|seefooddiet]] ([[User talk:seefooddiet|talk]]) 09:16, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per nom. The ''presence'' of sources that use the "hip hop" spelling is not in question, but the Ngrams are compelling evidence that "hip-hop" is the prevailing style. In any case, the RM just days ago established a consensus for "hip-hop" on this article, and being [[WP:CONSISTENT]] is desirable. [[User:ModernDayTrilobite|ModernDayTrilobite]] ([[User talk:ModernDayTrilobite|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/ModernDayTrilobite|contribs]]) 14:57, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per nom. [[User talk:Kolano123|<span style="color:blue;"> '''KOLANO12''' </span>]][[Special:Contributions/Kolano123|<span style="color:red;"> '''3''' </span>]] 17:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' removing "music" from the year articles, no comment on others. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Blue">talk</span>]]) 20:23, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' changing hip hop to hip-hop for consistency with [[hip-hop]] and because it's more common. [[User:Ericfood|'''<span style="color:maroon">Eric</span><span style="color:#DCAE96">food</span>''']] ([[User talk:Ericfood|talk]] &#124; [[Special:Contributions/Ericfood|contribs]]) 16:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' All this over a hyphen that barely changes search results or anything remotely relevant is a bit strange but as this user has shown that it is more common and as this has been moved from hip hop music to hip-hop I don't see why not move it.
:[[User:This0k|This0k]] ([[User talk:This0k|talk]]) 10:56, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' for consistency. [[User:AirshipJungleman29|&#126;~ AirshipJungleman29]] ([[User talk:AirshipJungleman29|talk]]) 18:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per noms reasoning and the concerns others have noted about being consistent. Also flagging that [[:Category:Hip hop]] and its subcats may be worth renaming. [[User:Alyo|<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Alyo</span>]] ''([[User talk:Alyo|<b style="font-family:courier; font-size:small">chat</b>]]·[[Special:Contributions/Alyo|<b style="font-family:courier; font-size:small">edits</b>]])'' 15:49, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Speedy close''' This RM wasn't necessary, as the previous RM already "authorized" these associated moves. Local consensus on these articles cannot override larger consensus on the parent article, per [[WP:CONLEVEL]]. But since it's been nominated, sure, '''support'''. [[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]] ([[User talk:InfiniteNexus|talk]]) 00:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
*:[[WP:NOTOTHERPAGES]]. If you don't include other articles in an RM, then any [[WP:CONSUB]] cleanup is as a bold move. [[User:SilverLocust|SilverLocust]]&nbsp;[[User talk:SilverLocust|💬]] 06:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
*::{{tqq|... except in the very clearest and not-even-plausibly controversial situations}}. Obviously, an RM should not result in a unrelated or tangentially related move. However, when we are talking about "child" articles that contain the title of the parent article, it is uncontroversial for those related pages to be mass-moved because no argument can reasonably be made for them to {{em|not}} be moved. For example, if [[Twitter]] is one day moved to [[X (social network)]], [[Tweet (social media)]] would not automatically be moved to [[X post]], but [[List of most-followed Twitter accounts]] would. This is why [[WP:C2D]] exists for categories. [[User:InfiniteNexus|InfiniteNexus]] ([[User talk:InfiniteNexus|talk]]) 08:02, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' for consistency and per nom [[User:Feeglgeef|Feeglgeef]] ([[User talk:Feeglgeef|talk]]) 04:52, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' I'm not sure if this is the right place for this (though to be fair, they all fall under the hip-hop category), but per nominee, previous move, and others above. [[User:LoTrWiki|LoTrWiki]] ([[User talk:LoTrWiki|talk]]) 03:18, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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Former featured articleHip-hop is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.
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Wiki Education assignment: Communication and Culture

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Semi-protected edit request on 13 September 2024

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Add to Category:African-American music and Category:Hispanic American music because it originated with African Americans and Hispanics. 163.5.121.233 (talk) 08:55, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 03:16, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music F24

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— Assignment last updated by sheridanford (talk) 22:40, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 23 November 2024

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. SilverLocust 💬 07:12, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Hip hop musicHip-hop – This RM seeks to address two issues with the current title. First, music is an unnecessary disambiguator. Prior consensus, WP:IMPLICIT or otherwise, has already determined the music genre to be the primary topic, as Hip hop and its hyphenated counterpart already redirect to this page. If editors determine that this is in fact not the primary topic, then Hip hop should not redirect here and Hip hop (disambiguation) should be moved. Among the topics listed on the disambiguation page, Hip hop (culture) is the only other real contender for the primary topic. Pageviews for the past 365 days indicate that interest in the music genre article trumps that of the culture article by ten times, so it isn't even close. Related templates and categories such as Template:Hip hop and Category:Hip hop do not use a "music" qualifier, nor do most sources, so there is no evidence "music" is a necessary part of the term. Simply "hip hop" is more concise.

Upon further investigation, it appears the article Hip hop was moved unilaterally to Hip hop (culture) in May 2022, but this actually gives us stronger evidence. Inspecting the pageviews before and after the move, we see that the culture article averaged around 1000 views per day before the move (green line) but dropped to around 200 after the fact (red line), an average that has remained to this day. This suggests most of the pageviews before the move were in fact looking for the music article when they arrived at the undisambiguated Hip hop page.

The second issue this RM aims to rectify is the missing hyphen. Ngrams show "hip-hop" as the overwhelmingly preferred term; this holds true when narrowing down to only noun forms. Dictionaries that use a hyphen include the OED, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, American Heritage, Collins, Britannica, Dictionary.com, The Free Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, and our own sister site Wiktionary; Longman was the only outlier I found. Several of these dictionaries specifically identify "hip hop" as the less common variant. Furthermore, the AP Stylebook recommends "hip-hop" and the Encyclopedia Britannica also uses "hip-hop", as do Spotify and Apple Music.

Even if you do not agree with the first part of this proposal, this second part should be uncontroversial as MOS:HYPHEN says to hyphenate attributive compound modifiers anyway, in accordance with standard grammar conventions. This is why we hyphenate African-American culture but not African Americans. Thus, if you oppose a move to Hip-hop, please consider supporting a move to Hip-hop music at the very least rather than blanket opposing. Finally, please note that the outcome of this RM will affect all hip-hop–related articles, categories, and templates; due to the sheer number of pages involved, they have not been tagged here but will be moved accordingly.

InfiniteNexus (talk) 07:01, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support per nom. He explains it well. ~~ Jessintime (talk) 13:24, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. I agree that Hip-hop unambiguously primarily refers to the music genre, and already redirects to the current title. BD2412 T 17:07, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. "Hip hop" can refer to hip hop music, hip hop culture, or others (see Hip hop (disambiguation).) Of these, hip hop music is the primary topic, hence the primary redirect. This does not mean that the title of the Hip hop music article needs to be shortened - doing so, in fact, would violate WP:PRECISE. No opinion on the hyphen aspect. 162 etc. (talk) 17:22, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Once again, 162, you are misapplying policy. WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT specifically states There are times when a disambiguated article title [...] may be moved to its base name (unqualified title) based on a consensus that this is the primary topic for the unqualified term. You yourself have acknowledged that the music genre is the primary topic for the unqualified term "hip-hop", so no further disambiguation is needed and your argument contradicts itself. Primary redirects only arise when the topic is primary for more than one term, when the article covers a wider topical scope, or when it is titled differently according to the naming conventions — none of which apply in this case. Most sources refer to the music genre as simply "hip-hop", and most uses of "hip-hop" refer to the music genre. In fact, virtually all of the dictionary entries I have linked define "hip-hop" as primarily the music genre. There is no evidence that "hip-hop music" is the standard term of the music genre, and it appears we were merely using it for natural disambiguation purposes. This does not violate WP:PRECISE, and you must explain your thinking into why you believe this to be the case. InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Per WP:PRECISE, "titles should unambiguously define the topical scope of the article." Hip hop is not unambiguous. Hip hop music is hip hop. Hip hop culture is hip hop. Hip hop dance is hip hop. We gain nothing by making the title of the article intentionally vague. 162 etc. (talk) 21:09, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    You yourself wrote that hip hop music is the primary topic. Being the primary topic doesn't mean it's the only topic, but the most commonly recognized one. Hip-hop is all those things, but most often refers to the music genre. A primary topic is therefore, by definition, not ambiguous because most readers associate a term with that particular topic over all other. If you agree that the music genre is the primary topic, as supported by the overwhelming evidence presented, you can't argue it is ambiguous at the same time. InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:38, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    >"A primary topic is therefore, by definition, not ambiguous"
    That is completely wrong. A primary topic, by definition, is ambiguous. Please see WP:DAB. 162 etc. (talk) 17:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Further, a primary redirect doesn't automatically justify a move of the article to a shorter title.
    WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT gives the example of Einstein. The German physicist is the primary topic. He is quite commonly known mononymously as "Einstein". Einstein redirects to the article at Albert Einstein. But, "Einstein" is still ambiguous. There are a number of topics at Einstein (disambiguation) which are also known as "Einstein."
    Or, to spell it out, for Hip hop. The music genre is the primary topic. It is quite commonly known simply as "hip hop". Hip hop redirects to the article at Hip hop music. But, "hip hop" is still ambiguous. There are a number of topics at Hip hop (disambiguation) which are also known as "hip hop." 162 etc. (talk) 18:02, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This continues to misread PRIMARYTOPIC and PRIMARYREDIRECT: Einstein is not titled "Einstein" because of naming conventions such as WP:SINGLENAME that take precedent, as outlined at PRIMARYREDIRECT, and would have certainly been moved otherwise; and if a topic is the primary topic, it means there is negligible risk of confusion with other topics of the same name, i.e. there is no ambiguity. But it is probably not worth trying to persuade you given all other editors have correctly read policy. I don't mean this in a disrespectful way, but it is concerning that you continue to misinterpret and misapply policy in so many RMs you participate in. InfiniteNexus (talk) 06:05, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My participation in RM discussions is in good faith. I have to assume yours is as well. Ill-considered accusations of impropriety are uncalled for, and I urge you to strike them from your previous comment. 162 etc. (talk) 07:25, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I have striven to maintain civility throughout this and past discussions and have never crossed the line into NPA territory. However, calling out editors for their repeated misreadings of policy is not uncivil; civility is not to be confused with politeness (though I have nonetheless sought to remain diplomatic). While I recognize your comments were made in good faith, I am genuinely troubled that you may not have a correct understanding of Wikipedia's naming conventions, in this and previous discussions. This is not me trying to sound snarky. My advice to you would be to re-read our PAGs and consider why the RMs in which you went against SNOW consensus ended up passing. InfiniteNexus (talk) 07:38, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Sigh. Ill-considered accusations of impropriety are uncalled for.
    If you legitimately have concerns about my contributions, then the place to address that is WP:ANI, not here. 162 etc. (talk) 08:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I would agree that this manner of discussion belongs on 162's talk page rather than here, or failing that WP:ANI if the issues are not able to be reconciled in a polite way. In a standard discussion it just reads like being argumentative and clogging the discussion. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 06:38, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support the DAB page should probably be moved here if not moved. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:33, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. Theparties (talk) 19:55, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 06:24, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Requested move 2 December 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Frost 09:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]


– For consistency in titles of subtopics of Hip-hop, which was moved from Hip hop music per Talk:Hip-hop#Requested move 23 November 2024. The relevant portion of InfiniteNexus's nomination about the hyphen is:

Ngrams show "hip-hop" as the overwhelmingly preferred term; this holds true when narrowing down to only noun forms. Dictionaries that use a hyphen include the OED, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, American Heritage, Collins, Britannica, Dictionary.com, The Free Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, and our own sister site Wiktionary; Longman was the only outlier I found. Several of these dictionaries specifically identify "hip hop" as the less common variant. Furthermore, the AP Stylebook recommends "hip-hop" and the Encyclopedia Britannica also uses "hip-hop", as do Spotify and Apple Music.

SilverLocust 💬 09:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support moves, if I'm understanding your comment correctly, I think the nominator's proposal addresses your concerns; they narrow the search to noun terms. The noun can have a hyphen in it; it's not necessarily required that it be an adjective form (i.e. "hip-hop music") to have a hyphen in it. Even the Hip-hop wikipedia article has the hyphenated noun form in both title and in much of the body.
Either way I think the other evidence presented in the proposal is really significant; the anecdotes you present don't outweigh them I think. seefooddiet (talk) 09:16, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This0k (talk) 10:56, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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