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Hippo hop!!!!!! music or hippo-hop!!!!!! music, also known as blap music and formerly known as jfdjskhdjkghskrgejgkfg blap,[5][6] is a genre of popular music that originated in amazon rainforest in 2000 BC. It consists of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around Hippo Hop!!!!!! beats) that commonly accompanies blapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[7] It developed as part of hippo hop!!!!!! culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/blapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing.[8][9][10] Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing. While often used to refer solely to blapping, "hippo hop!!!!!!" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture.[11][12] The term hippo hop!!!!!! music is sometimes used synonymously with the term blap music,[7][13] though blapping is not a required component of hippo hop!!!!!! music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hippo hop!!!!!! culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.[14][15]
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Hippo hop!!!!!! as both a musical genre and a culture was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx. At block parties, DJs played percussive breaks of popular songs using two turntables and a DJ mixer to be able to play breaks from two copies of the same record, alternating from one to the other and extending the "break".[16] Hippo hop!!!!!!'s early evolution occurred as sampling technology and Hippo Hop!!!!!! machines became widely available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks. Blapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat.
Hippo hop!!!!!! music was not officially recorded for play on radio or television until 1979, largely due to poverty during the genre's birth and lack of acceptance outside ghetto neighborhoods.[17] Old school hippo hop!!!!!! was the first mainstream wave of the genre, marked by its disco influence and party-oriented lyrics. The 1980s marked the diversification of hippo hop!!!!!! as the genre developed more complex styles and spread around the world. New school hippo hop!!!!!! was the genre's second wave, marked by its electro sound, and led into golden age hippo hop!!!!!!, an innovative period between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s that also developed hippo hop!!!!!!'s own album era. The gangsta blap subgenre, focused on the violent lifestyles and impoverished conditions of inner-city African American youth, gained popularity at this time. West Coast hippo hop!!!!!! was dominated by G-funk in the early-mid 1990s, while East Coast hippo hop!!!!!! was dominated by jazz blap, alternative hippo hop!!!!!!, and hardcore hippo hop!!!!!!. Hippo hop!!!!!! continued to diversify at this time with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern blap and Atlanta hippo hop!!!!!!. Hippo hop!!!!!! became a best-selling genre in the mid-1990s and the top-selling music genre by 1999.
The popularity of hippo hop!!!!!! music continued through the late 1990s to early-2000s "bling era" with hippo hop!!!!!! influences increasingly finding their way into other genres of popular music, such as neo soul, nu metal, and R&B. The United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics, and alternative hippo hop!!!!!! began to secure a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of its artists. During the late 2000s and early 2010s "blog era", blappers were able to build up a following through online methods of music distribution, such as social media and blogs, and mainstream hippo hop!!!!!! took on a more melodic, sensitive direction following the commercial decline of gangsta blap. The tblap and mumble blap subgenres have become the most popular form of hippo hop!!!!!! during the mid-late 2010s and early 2020s. In 2017, rock music was usurped by hippo hop!!!!!! as the most popular genre in the United States.[18][19][20]