How to Use hip-hop in a Sentence

hip-hop

noun
  • The main mantra for hip-hop was what?
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But for me, this is what hip-hop is.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
  • That’s punk, that’s rock & roll, that’s hip-hop.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That’s punk, that’s rock & roll, that’s hip-hop.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
  • People look at hip-hop like a sport.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 26 June 2026
  • There are four pillars of hip-hop.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • There were no hip-hop managers.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 6 Sep. 2025
  • So evolving with hip-hop, right?
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
  • That era of the hip-hop mogul is largely gone.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Hot 97 gave me the mic and hip-hop gave me a voice.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There’s been talk about the role of battling in hip-hop.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 26 June 2026
  • By and large, rap, hip-hop is a spoken-word art.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Hell, Greg Tate been told us hip-hop was dead.
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Sampling is a Black art that bred hip-hop.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Sampling is a Black art that bred hip-hop.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Bambaataa’s story goes back to the dawn of hip-hop.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This is really good for hip-hop.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
  • There’s some post-Drake rap’n’b, some stock radio hip-hop.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
  • So, will hip-hop be fine without Drake for the next year or two?
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
  • It's been a long time since anyone blamed hip-hop for being too woke.
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In lieu of a red carpet, guests walked a three-lane track to a playlist of hip-hop hits.
    — Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 25 July 2024
  • To close out his set, though, BigX went back to his hip-hop roots.
    — Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2026
  • But hip-hop is 50 years old now, so old people like hip-hop too.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In hip-hop, as in life, women are the past, the present and the future.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
  • These lyrics were made famous by hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.
    — Waylon Barnes, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a couple hip-hop groups on the label but bands are a very in depth process.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But there’s also a punk scene and an art scene and a hip-hop scene that’s amazing.
    — Vulture, 9 June 2023
  • The days of a few good men doing hip-hop, and doing hip-hop well, [have] passed.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The new track finds the hip-hop star singing over a soft instrumental.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The work flow from hip-hop can be vastly different from artist to artist.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025

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