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Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music is a music genre developed in the United States by urban African Americans in the 1970s. It consists of rhythmic music that accompanies rapping. That's a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by stylistic elements as MCing, rapping, DJing, scratching, break dancing and graffiti.