Hip hop music, also called rap music is a genre of popular music that combines elements of funk with elements of other music genres such as doo-wop, dub, disco music, reggae, bebop, talking blues, scat singing, dancehall, electronic music and rhythm and blues
Hip hop is a music genre was most originated in the South Bronx and Harlem in New York City, among African American and Puerto Rican youth in the United States during the 1970s. 2 3 4 5 Although the term hip hop or rap was often used to refer to musical style and lifestyle, he considers that hip hop is not only limited to the musical field and on the contrary consists of four main elements: rap (oral: recite or sing), turntablism or "DJing" (auditory or musical), break (physical: dance) and graffiti (visual: painting). Despite its contrasted variants and methods of execution, it is easily associated with the poverty and violence that underlies the historical context that gave birth to the subculture. For this group of young people, it offers to rebel against the inequalities and hardships that were experienced in the urban areas of limited resources in New York, so hip hop worked recently, as a form of self-expression that would propose to reflect, proclaim an alternative , try to challenge or simply evoke the state of the circumstances of said environment, favoring its artistic development. Also while contemporary history continues, worldwide, there is a flourishing of different styles in each of the four elements, adapting to the new contexts in which hip hop has immersed itself, without detaching itself from the fundamental principles, which stability and coherence to culture.