what hip hop means to me
The noun HIP-HOP has 2 senses: 1. an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city. 2. 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. Familiarity information: HIP-HOP used as a noun is rare.