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Can Hip Hop merge with House/Club and still be Hip Hop?

posted 8 years ago by AdrianLePier
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In the very late 80s and early 90s, pre-Death Row, there was a lot of rap music set to House and Club music (Technotronic, Inner City, C+C Music Factory, Black Box...there'd even be dance/house remixes of tracks that were originally more organically Hip Hop.) Then as the 90s took shape, Hip Hop became grittier and any rap song that was set to a club/house beat wasn't considered real Hip Hop, but rather instead just a pop song that featured rapping.

Do you think a rap song set to a House/Club beat can be true Hip Hop, or is just pop?

[–] DeltaHomicide 8 years ago

I was focusing on the kind of hip hop dance music that's more conducive to clubs and breaking. In L.A. in the late 80's we used to call it "funk", whereas in the east coast it was known as "electro".

'Summertime' by Smith is the jam though, I like that one.