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  Bassline

  Bassline is a type of music related to UK garage that originated from speed garage, and shares characteristics with fellow subgenres dubstep and grime for their emphasis on bass. The style originated in Sheffield around 2002. Bassline has been at the centre of controversy in Sheffield due to a...
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  Hip Hop

  Hip hop is a cultural movement incorporating breakdancing (B-boying), music, graffiti writing, DJing and MCing. It originated in the African American communities of New York City (with the South Bronx as the center) in the late 1970s. It was DJ Afrika Bambaataa that outlined the five pillars of hip...
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  Hyphy

  Hyphy (pronounced /ˈhaɪfiː/ HYE-fee) (short for "hyperactive") (described as northern crunk) is a subgenre of crunk music originating from the Bay Area of California. The word was created by Bay Area Rapper Keak Da Sneak when he used the term on an album he recorded in 1994. Hip-hop artist E-40,...
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  Electro-hop

  Electro hop (sometimes called Electronic Hip hop, Electronic Rap or Robot Hip hop) is the fusion of electrofunk with hip hop or rap. The electro-hop movement had come about after seeing the underground electro movement on the East Coast gain popularity with artists such as Mantronix, Man Parrish,...
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  UK Garage

  UK garage (also known as UKG or simply garage) is a genre of electronic dance music originating from the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s. In some sense UK garage is a descendant of British house music. UK garage usually features a distinctive syncopated 4-4 percussive rhythm with 'shuffling' hi...
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  East Coast hip hop

  East Coast hip hop is a form of hip hop music that originated and developed in New York City, USA during the 1970s and early 1980s. The style emerged as a definitive subgenre after artists from other regions of the United States emerged with different styles. East Coast hip hop has been noted as...
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  Dubstep

  Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that has its roots in London's early 2000s UK garage scene. Musically, dubstep is distinguished by its 2-step rhythm, or use of snare sounds similar to 2-step garage and grime, and an emphasis on bass, often producing "dark" sounds, but just as...

• Urban Pasifika

  Urban Pasifika 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 the...

• Hip house

  Hip house, also known as house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip-hop. The style rose to prominence during the 1980s in New York and Chicago. However, in the UK, the first officially credited hip house track was 1987's Rok Da House by UK producers the Beatmasters...

• 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.