Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hip-hop

2 senses of hip-hop

Sense 1
hip-hop -- (an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city)
       => youth culture -- (young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture)

Sense 2
rap, rap music, hip-hop -- (genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged)
       => popular music, popular music genre -- (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))
       => black music, African-American music -- (music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses)