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UK rap
Other names
British hip hop
British rap
Brit-hop
UK hip hop
Stylistic origins
Hip hop
R&B/hip-hop
garage house
dub
Cultural origins
Early 1980s, United Kingdom
Derivative forms
Trip hop
Subgenres
Chap hop
road rap
UK drill
Britcore (British hardcore hip hop)[1]
Other topics
Drum and bass
grime
dubstep
UK garage
gangsta rap
UK drill
drill
trap
hip hop
R&B
afroswing
UK rap, also known as British hip hop or UK hip hop, is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music made in the United Kingdom.[2][3] It is generally classified as one of a number of styles of R&B/Hip-Hop.[4][5][6][7] British hip hop can also be referred to as Brit-hop, a term coined and popularised mainly by British Vogue magazine and the BBC.[8][9][10] British hip hop was originally influenced by the dub/toasting introduced to the United Kingdom by Jamaican migrants in the 1950s–70s,[11] who eventually developed uniquely influenced rapping (or speed-toasting) in order to match the rhythm of the ever-increasing pace and aggression of Jamaican-influenced dub in the UK. Toasting and soundsystem cultures were also influential in genres outside of hip hop that still included rapping – such as grime, jungle, and UK garage.[12][13]
In 2003, The Times described British hip hop's broad-ranging approach:
..."UK hip-hop" is a broad sonic church, encompassing anything made in Britain by musicians informed or inspired by hip-hop's possibilities, whose music is a response to the same stimuli that gave birth to rap in New York in the mid-Seventies.[3]
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^"Vogue Meets The Brit-Hop Generation – British Vogue". Archived from the original on 17 September 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
^"Vogue Meets London's Rising Music Stars – British Vogue". 22 October 2017. Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^"The Brithop Boom – BBC". 21 November 2005. Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
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^"Vogue Meets London's Rising Music Stars – British Vogue". 22 October 2017. Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^"The Brithop Boom – BBC". 21 November 2005. Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
^"Sound systems". The British Library. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
^Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (1 June 2018). "'You can't escape its inspiration': inside the true history of grime". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
^"Hear a documentary on black British music from jungle to dubstep". FACT Magazine. 6 July 2016. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
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