This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since March 2006.
Dominican hip hop has its own style of hip hop music by mixing its native music and rapping to it like in the genres Merenrap or Merenhouse where they just take a blend of their native dance music called Merengue and rap to it. New York Dominican Merenrap group Proyecto Uno is an example of an artist in this genre and is one of the most popular groups in the merengue and merenrap genre. The two popular types of music from the Dominican Republic, Merengue and Bachata are also known for being mixed into another subgenre of hip hop known as Reggaeton where they take their melodies and blend it in with the reggaeton sound called Bachateo. The Luny Tunes are a famous duo of reggaeton producers of Dominican Republic, who are by one of the best and most popular producers in reggaeton, have with worked with almost every one in the genre and are similar to The Neptunes of hip hop are also known a lot for blending Dominican merengue and bachata in reggaeton. A few Domincan artists in reggaeton include Noztra, Don Miguelo, Gemstar and Big Mato, OG Black and La Fabrica. Some American rappers come from Dominican descent such as rappers Triple Seis,Ju Ju of The Beatnuts and Gemstar. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Merenrap, or meren-rap, is a style of hip hop music which was formed from the fusion of Dominican merengue music with rapping. ... Merenhouse is a style of music developed in the US and Latin America by groups such as Proyecto Uno and Zona 7. ... Merengue is a type of lively, joyful music and dance that comes from the Dominican Republic. ... Proyecto Uno is a dominican merengue/hip hop/reggaeton group from New York, composed of Nelson Zapata, Magic Juan, Johnny Salgado and Erik Boog. ... Merengue is a type of lively, joyful music and dance that comes from the Dominican Republic. ... Bachata is a form of music and dance that originated in the countryside and rural marginal neighborhoods of Dominican Republic. ... Reggaeton (spelled optionally with the acute diacritic in English and known as Reguetón and Reggaetón in Spanish) is a form of dance music which became popular with Latin American (or Latino) youth during the early 1990s and spread to North American, European, Asian, and Australian audiences during the... Nueva bachata is a musical movement in the Dominican Republic which combines bachata-style melodies and song subjects with reggaeton-style beats, rapping, and disc jockeying. ... Luny Tunes are a Dominican reggaeton production duo composed of Francisco Saldaña (Luny) (born June 23, 1979) and VÃctor Cabrera (Tunes) (born April 12, 1981) . Both members were born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in the Boston metropolitan area until they moved to Puerto Rico where... The Neptunes is the name for the record production duo, consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who have created the sound for some of the most successful Hip Hop, R&B and Pop artists of this decade. ... Noztra (Martin Rivera) is a reggaeton musician. ... Don Miguelo is a Dominican rapper in the Reggaeton genre. ... La Fabrica is a reggaeton group in the Dominican republic. ... Triple Seis was a rapper of Dominican descent from The Bronx, New York, who was a former member of Fat Joes and the late Big Puns group the Terror Squad. ... The Beatnuts are a hip hop crew from Queens, New York City. ...
Hiphop music is also erroneously used at times to describe related genres of music, such as contemporary RandB, which are primarily sung, probably for increasing their commercial appeal; while singing is commonly present in hiphop tracks, the main vocal (if there are vocals) is always rapped.
Hiphop Kool DJ Herc, in contrast, originated the practice of isolating and extending only the break—a short percussion solo interlude—by mixing between two copies of the same record.
Hiphop music is a part of hiphop, a cultural movement that includes the activities of breakdancing and graffiti art, as well as associated slang, fashion and other elements.
Hiphop is heir to all those shared cultural and political spaces between Puerto Ricans, other Latinos, other people from the Caribbean and African Americans.
Hiphop is (and has long been) the music of choice for huge sectors of the Puerto Rican population, particularly young people.
Hiphop is an important cultural source for the rap/reggae hybrid known as reggaetón, which rose to fame in the 1990s and is currently the most popular music among young Puerto Ricans inside and outside of Puerto Rico.
Feeds |
Contact