The words "hip" and "hop" in combination have a long history. In the 1950s, older folks referred to teen house parties as "hippity hops". The creation of the term hip hop is often credited to See more

Transition to recording
The earliest hip hop music was performed live, at house parties and block party events, and it was … See more

Commercialization and new directions
During the late 1990s, in the wake of the deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., … See more

Musical genres from which hip hop developed include funk, blues, jazz and rhythm and blues recordings from the 1960s, 1950s, and earlier, including several records by See more

Hip hop's "golden age" (or "golden era") is a name given to a period in mainstream hip hop, produced between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, … See more

Trap music is a subgenre of Southern rap that originated in the early 1990s. It grew in the 2000s to become a mainstream sensation, eventually … See more

Hip-hop music has reached the cultural corridors of the globe and has been absorbed and reinvented around the world. Hip hop … See more