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  Hyphy

  The word hyphy ( /ˈhaɪfiː/ HY-fee) is a short word meaning "hyperactive." It was created by Bay Area rapper Keak da Sneak when he used the term on an album he recorded in 1994. Hyphy is a style of music and dance associated with San Francisco Bay Area hip hop culture. The culture began to emerge in...
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  Hip hop soul

  Hip hop soul is sub-genre of Contemporary R&B; which fuses R&B;, neo soul and dance elements with hip hop. The term did not originate until the promotion for Mary J. Blige's debut album What's the 411? in 1992 when Uptown Records proclaimed her to be the "Queen of Hip Hop Soul" and generally...
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  Freestyle music

  Freestyle or Latin freestyle is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s, and was mostly popular during the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. It continues to be produced today and enjoys some degree of popularity, especially in urban Latino and Italian communities, as it did...

• Motown Sound

  The Motown Sound is a style of soul music with distinctive characteristics that was developed by the musicians, songwriter, and record producer at Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan. The style includes the use of tambourine, drums, bass guitar, a distinctive melodic and chord structure, and a call...

• Urban Pasifika

  Urban Pacifika Records is a sub-genre of hip hop which combines American style hip hop or R&B; rhyming and beats with Pacific Island or Māori instrumentation (such as ukulele samples) and Pacific Island or Māori language singing/rapping. It originated in Auckland, New Zealand in around 1993 with...

• New school hip hop

  The new school of hip hop was a movement in hip hop music starting 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J. Like the hip hop preceding it, it came predominately from New York City. The new school was initially characterized in form by drum machine led minimalism, often tinged...

• Jazz rap

  Jazz rap is a sub-genre of hip hop which incorporates jazz influences, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentricity, and general positivism. Allmusic writes that the genre "was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the...

• East Coast hip hop

  East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City, USA during the 1970s. Hip hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the East Coast. The style in the East Coast emerged as a definitive subgenre after artists from other regions of the...

• Mobb Music

  Mobb Music is a style of West Coast rap music that began in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s to mid 1990s. The basic instrumental style is derived primarily from funk music, with a heavy focus on synthesizers, ultra low bass lines and Roland TR-808 drums.

• Chopped and screwed

  Chopped and screwed (sometimes called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) refers to a technique of remixing hip hop music which developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the 1990s. This is accomplished by slowing the tempo down to between 60 - 70 quarter-note beats per minute and applying...