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Latin hip-hop en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncommon, uncountable) Synonym of Latin freestyle.
    • That new sound is often called Latin hip-hop. It combines the hard beats of rap music, or “traditional” hip-hop, with the synthesizers and Latin percussion of seventies disco. 1988 January 11, John Leland, “Latin hip-hop: The Beat Goes On”, in New York Magazine, page 18:
    • Whereas certain audience segments and critics celebrated the dawn of Latin hip-hop, there was a strong feeling of suspicion and betrayal among those who felt themselves part of an urban Afro-diasporic, Black-matrixed hip-hop culture. 2001, Agustín Laó-Montes, Arlene M. Dávila, editors, Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 246:

Synonyms

Latin freestyle