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50 Cent was named the number-one Rap Songs artist of the 2000s by Billboard. Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. Introduced by the magazine as the Hot Rap Singles chart in March 1989, the chart was initially based solely on reports from a panel of selected record stores of weekly ...
BeatStars is a global subscription-based music licensing platform where recording artists and producers collaborate, license and distribute their work to multiple parties through a variety of non-exclusive and exclusive license types. Founder Abe Batshon formed the BeatStars model to make his own music before launching it as a business in 2008 [1]
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [67] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
African. Bongo Flava - from Tanzania. Boomba music - from Kenya. Genge - from Kenya. Hip hop galsen - from Senegal. Hipco - from Liberia. Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana. Igbo rap - from Southeast Nigeria. Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion.
In 2013, YouTube began hosting live streams, which resulted in 24-hour "radio stations" dedicated to microgenres such as vaporwave. [14] Compilation videos are also popular, combining the music with visuals that could take the form of recorded pedestrian walks through major cities like Tokyo, looping visuals from cartoons such as The Simpsons or Internet memes. [15]
Lofi Girl. Lofi Girl (formerly ChilledCow until 2021) is a French YouTube channel and music label established in 2017. It provides livestreams of lo-fi hip hop music 24/7, accompanied by a Japanese-style animation of a girl studying or relaxing in her bedroom with a cat on the window.
Hip hop singles from any year which charted in the 2002 Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 [ 7] Song. Artist. Project. Peak position. "Lose Yourself". Eminem. 8 Mile.
Hiplife. Hiplife is a Ghanaian musical style that fuses Ghanaian culture and hip hop. [ 1] Recorded predominantly in the Ghanaian Akan language, hiplife is rapidly gaining popularity in the 2010s throughout West Africa and abroad, especially in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Germany [citation needed] .