hip_hop_music | musicsubgenre | gangsta_rap <sep> hip hop music or hip-hop music, also known as rap music and formerly known as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the bronx borough of new york city in the early 1970s by african americans, and it had been around for years prior before mainstream discovery this genre of music originated as anti-drug and anti-violence, while consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats) that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted according to the professor asante of african american studies at temple university, 'hip hop is something that blacks can unequivocally claim as their own' it was developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: mcing/rapping, djing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti art other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing 
hip hop music has the sub genre gangsta rap.hip hop music is also known as rap music and formerly known as disco rap