hip-hop /ˈhɪpˌhɑp/
hip-hop
n 1: an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the
fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
2: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in
which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical
accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: rap,
rap music]