Hip-hop has been one of the dominating performing art of this era, worldwide. And the gravitating culture has unique colors and textures mostly known for its music.
Hip-hop music is also known as Rap music is a genre that was started during the 1970s originated in The Bronx, New York City, United States. It was a cultural revolution mostly followed by inner-city African Americans and Latino Americans. The huge body that the genre has formed was backed by several hip-hop artists who enriched the unique self-expressive form of music.
- Hip-hop is the genre that has introduced rapping or MCing is one of the major styles of hip-hop, the rhythmic and rhyming vocals shared by the artist.
- The genre has brought DJs and DJ mixes also fall under the hip-hop genre
- Also Graffiti, this form of expressive art is completely associated with this genre.
This huge Cultural Revolution gave birth to various hip-hop singer and artists who has enriched the genre even further by their musical contributions, top five performers of hip-hop are;
- Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, widely known as Snoop Dogg is one of the best hip-hop stars. In 1992 he made himself taste the fame by featuring in Dr. Dre’s debut solo single ‘Deep Cover’ of his album called The Chronic, which sold over 23 million copies worldwide by far.
After this, he never stopped and gave hit after hit with all the albums and solos. He won Top Billboard 200 Album Artist Male in 1994. He featured in various films as well.
- Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., the American rapper known as Lil Wayne. He started his career very soon in 1995 at an age of 12. Back then he was signed by the rapper Birdman while joining Cash Money Records. He was their youngest member of the company and was associated with the company till June 2018.
The artist has won several Billboard awards and also has bagged 5 Grammys by far.
- Drake
The overpowering singer and rap artist Aubrey Drake Graham is one of the best performing artists of this time. The Canadian singer made his debut with the album ‘Thank Me Later’ in 2010 and reached the pinnacle position of the U.S. Billboard 200. He received huge appreciation for his body of work.
He had raised his voice to promote other aspiring artists. He has bagged various awards including four Grammys as well for his exceptional body of work.
- Kanye West
Ye or popularly known as Kanye West has been performing this form of art since 1996. Though his first studio album, ‘The College Dropout’ was released in 2004. And after that, he has been producing one after another extremely well-arranged numbers.
his body of work has been extremely diverse from orchestra arrangements and synthesizers to auto-tunes, he has incorporated various styles in his musicality.
- Nicki Minaj
The Rap queen of this industry Nicki Minaj has the most number of U.S. Billboard entries. She was the center of controversies after she released the unconventional song called ‘Anaconda’. She has four Billboard Music Awards to her name for her bold and beautiful numbers.
Her versatile forms of music along with her dynamic and influential personality are the dominating factors in her uprising career.