Often referred to as a style of music, it is a musical sub-culture that involves four elements: DJing, Grafitti, MCing and B-Boying.
Urban youth culture associated with rap music, a fashion style, and social and political activism of inner city African American youth.
rap culture, especially rap dance culture
The culture in the late 70s and early 80s that spawned the graffiti culture as we know it now, breakdancing and hip-hop music, which has since turned into modern rap music.
The term hip hop (also spelled "hip-hop" or "hiphop") refers to both a musical (see hip hop music) and a cultural genre or movement (hip hop culture) that was developed predominantly by African Americans and Latinos (primarily of Puerto Rican ethnic heritage) in urban communities, starting in the 1970s.http://www.thenext.org.nz/the_resource/history_of_hiphop.php Coinage of the term "hip hop" is often credited to Keith Cowboy, a rapper in Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five.
Hip Hop is the mascot of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team. Hip Hop usually entertains Sixers fans during halftime and time-outs by performing acrobatic slam dunks off of a trampoline, usually over some type of prop, such as a ladder.
