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Own-Cupcake7586

Hip-hop has become hip dysplasia.


Deutschbag123

“Hip-Pop”


Theblackjamesbrown

Come on guys..."Hip Op"


Late-Ad-4624

The midwest doesnt have hip hop. We have hip ope.


Theblackjamesbrown

In Botswana they've got hip-oh


Rainie_Daye

No we don’t. We have corn. Lots and lots of corn


Otherwise_Singer6043

Don't forget soybeans. Any farm that isn't corn or cows around here is soybeans.


7IGT7

You mean Hick-Hop


GetWellHooi

I think you mean Hip-Pop


Late-Ad-4624

Firearm owners only do pop pop pop.


Awkward_Pangolin3254

Hip op anonymous?


ThePoopIsOnFire

Hank Hippopopalous Hip Op Hypothesis


Awkward_Pangolin3254

I'm the Hip-hopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless...


Billy_Plur

Are you referencing the use of "Ops" in rap these days?


FreeRocker

Hip-hop can simultaneously complain about the corruption of today's youth, and it's sciatica.


kkitty44

“Let your backbone slide”. Maestro Fresh Wes


Gnomorius

Heyooo


wistfulmaiden

My first thought was “ my hip hurts, Hoppy”


rambocesar

Actually, hip dysplasia is mostly congenital.


Acrobatic_Matter_109

Alabama, then?


N_3N

Hip Hop : Am I a Dad joke to you ?


Leftygoleft999

Ok, I’m 51 Op, and your joke is flawed. There was no “Hip Hop” in the 70’s. And in the 80’s it was called rap. It wasn’t until at least the early or mid 90’s when the term Hip Hop was coined and ever really had any traction. So at best, Hip Hop is 30 and it’ll be dead before the next 20 years, cuz wtf is this current crap calling itself hip hop?


Ochib

Rapper's Delight was released in 1979 and the lyrics were I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat Now what you hear is not a test: I'm rappin' to the beat https://youtu.be/tAnojTvyc0g


KopiteForever

I mean that's rap. It's called Rapper's Delight


Ochib

The first line literally says hip hop


NeuerTK

The fourth line says bang bang boogie. So it must be called bang bang boogie


spikeinfinity

Just because it *mentions* hip hop doesn't mean it *is* hip hop. Edit: OK, I realise this is a moot point, as it still proves that hip hop was around at the time.


rwa2

Lol, now we can argue about bands that don't want to be labeled "trip hop"


PuddinPacketzofLuv

The name of the song literally says rapper.


[deleted]

Because a rappers delight is hip hop


Strongest-There-Is

Rapper: noun. person who raps. Rap: noun or verb. Hip-Hop: noun. type of music.


AutomatedCabbage

Rap is a he music. Hip Hop is the culture.


Fangs4

but it was not hip hop, if you ever heard the actual song. agreed the style of hip hop became mainstream late 80s early 90s


meeyeam

And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet.


BillionaireGhost

This is just incorrect. The term hip hop goes back to at least 1979 with Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight.” Artists like DJ Cool Herc were already looping beats back then. So sure maybe that’s more like 44 years ago. But I wouldn’t say that hip-hop didn’t exist just because most people just called it rap or whatever. All of the elements of what we call hip-hop were there, even the term. Just because you didn’t personally become of aware of it as a mainstream cultural phenomenon, doesn’t mean it wasn’t there. Especially in the 80s. By the nineties, DJ Cool Herc, Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, etc., their most popular music was already a decade old and already giving way to new groups with different styles. That would be like saying rock and roll didn’t exist until the sixties just because you personally feel that it wasn’t part of the mainstream culture until The Beatles were on Johnny Carson or something.


cjosh1220

Damn, now I want to know how rock started.


DaddyOhMy

Rock and roll developed as R&B and jump blues combined and began to add a little "raunch" to it's sound (I know this is a simplification but it's a Saturday morning and I haven't had breakfast yet). There's a lot of discussion on what the first true "rock and roll" song was and I personally lean towards "Rocket '88" by Ike Turner's band the Kings of Rhythm (though it was credited to his sax player Jackie Brenston) due to the inclusion of distortion on the guitar and backbeat syncopation. There were earlier songs that came close, a few that even had the word "rock" in the title, but I think that "Rocket '88" pulled all of pieces together in just the right way. https://youtu.be/260hXID0Yo0


Important-Bowler-880

The 1952 hit "Rock Around the Clock" by Billy Haley and his Comets was originally marketed as a "foxtrot", which goes to show how reliable labels are.


Accomplished_Fly882

That’s a really cool fact, and also makes a lot of sense because you could dance a mean foxtrot to it!


Lost-My-Mind-

With cavemen!


HarmfulMicrobe

Og hit Ug with rock


dTEA74

Mc Shan - They Used to Do it in the park 1988 _The hip-hop sound went through stages Embark on a trip as I flip through pages_


Leftygoleft999

No that’s not even close. Saying “hip-hop” existed because 14 people agree it started at this exact point and someone used the term is the dumbest fucking shit I’ve ever heard. And if you wanna use rock and roll as an example, ok, it’s like some people at a party in the roaring 20’s saying this music is rock & roll and then claiming rock n roll started in the 1920’s. The term wasn’t widely in use until the 1950’s. And the term hip-hop was not widely in use until the 1990’s. That’s the facts. Sorry if I offended the 14 of you that were using the term earlier.


Demus007

I’m gonna leave this here for you, along with some recommended viewing: Hip-hop music first developed in the United States in the 1970s and has steadily grown in popularity in the decades since then. This docuseries traces the genre's dynamic evolution from the beginning through the 1990s. It starts with a look at artists -- including Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash -- who laid the foundation early on, and then moves on to other influential groups like Run-DMC and Public Enemy. The show also explores differences in hip-hop on the East Coast compared to the West Coast. That is the description from “Hip-Hop Evolution”, a documentary on Netflix, spans 4 seasons and tells the story of Hip Hop. You should try watching it and Educate yourself.


Leftygoleft999

Whatever. I lived through the 70’s and 80’s. The only point I was making was that the term “hip-hop” wasn’t mainstream until the 90’s. That’s it. Nothing ekes. I grew up in S Fl, I knew more people from New York, New Jersey or from wherever in the Tri-State area than I knew people from Florida. I’m a baller to this day, I’m still beating my teenage kids and their friends at basketball and I’m in my 50’s. And everyone I knew, including the brothers on the basketball court called it rap until sometime in the 90’s. End of story. Just because there was someone calling it “hip-hop” sooner doesn’t mean everyone was back in the 70’s and 80’s. It wasn’t a thing no matter what some revisionist history show is telling you however old you are. I was there, peace.


Demus007

Just because YOU called it rap, doesn’t mean it wasn’t called Hip Hop. It doesn’t make YOU right. I call a spatula an egg-lift, that don’t mean I’m right. Peace Out!!!


Leftygoleft999

I didn’t call it rap, everyone else did. It’s ok, you can admit you’re wrong anytime. It’s alright. It’s ok to be wrong. I’ve been wrong before. At least a couple of times. What’s your beef? I’m huge into history and this is hardly where I’d draw the line on fake history, cuz there’s a ton of fake history being spread around these days. How old are you? Inquiring minds wanna know.


Demus007

If you’d have read my initial response, you’d see that I’m 53. I note that you’re from Florida, the state that wants to teach in schools that blacks benefitted from slavery. It all makes sense now, you Floridians make stuff up to suit your own agenda.


Leftygoleft999

Are you trying to conflate me with the government of Florida? Wow that’s pretty hilarious. Although I personally could probably do a better job representing this entire state by myself, than every version of the Florida government in my entire lifetime. And I wasn’t even living here for half my life. I moved to Hawaii when I was 23. Was there almost 22 years and was in Dallas until last summer. But at least we can agree that Florida has an entirely fucked up government, lol. So what’s your thoughts on Himmy the Greek saying black athletes have an advantage in sports because of slavery? You’re old enough to remember that. My 14 year old son and I had an interesting conversation on that topic today, lol.


Acrobatic_Matter_109

That comment was uncalled for.


Fluid_Comfortable488

Ahhh....this argument kinda makes me think....were they Nazis when they hated everyone but didn't call themselves Nazis? Did they not exist as "Nazis" as we understand them to be until the whole world called them that? Or can we look at history and say "yes, this is where is started, this whole thing" even though we know that it didn't have a name until later.


Leftygoleft999

Nazis? What? Where did this turn into a conversation about Nazis? Is there some Nazi rap…er Hip hop I didn’t know about?


Fluid_Comfortable488

Haha definitely not! What I was saying is that the nazi movement started long before the term nazi was in common usage. Same as Hip Hop, that movement didn't start when the term became common usage, it started far before that.


Leftygoleft999

I was never denying you were right about that. All I was trying to say all along was that it wasn’t “mainstream”. So OP’s joke didn’t work. That’s all. Most people don’t know that traveling Hawaiian musicians influenced black blues musicians at the turn of the century, who eventually inspired early Rock pioneers who are now considered greats by most of the planet. Early hip hop wasn’t even close to mainstream. They were pioneering. Mainstream hip hop wasn’t a thing until the 90’s


N_3N

I'm not Op


Pm-ur-butt

Damn, my man burned the wrong dude!


[deleted]

I'm not familiar with hip-hop's origins but my guess is that probably the peer-reviewed article that says the cultural origins of hip-hop are in the 1970s is correct and you just don't know enough about it. Also apparently the term was coined in the 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music


Demus007

You must be talking about the hip-hop that was played in the suburbs on commercial radio stations. Have you never heard of DJ Herc or Afrika Bambaataa or The Rock Steady Crew. . Hip Hop wasn't just the music but the culture Probably best to do some research before making such statements. From a 53 year old who was listening to Hip Hop from at least the early 80s and knew it existed before then.


[deleted]

I’m drowning in “artists” these days, there’s no way I could ever find those groups if you hadn’t mentioned them.


rankinfile

Rap is part of hip hop music and scene. Rapping is the vocal style. Both are used generically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music


Kittycat4779

Actually, early years of hip hop are considered to be 1973-1979.


pinniped1

I saw a one-man play, mostly rapped, that was loosely about the early days of hip hop. The story was fiction but it was based on real history. It focused on mid 70s Brooklyn, independent record shops, garage studios, small underground clubs. The scene was starting...even tho rappers didn't get big until the 80s. So I believe the overall movement is 50, even though most people weren't aware of it until 10-15 years later. Most genres are probably like this to some extent.


Federal-Subject-3541

Confidently incorrect, I see. Or too young to know.


ZhangtheGreat

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” No doubt it wasn’t called hip-hop when it first emerged, but it’s the same genre of music. New age and older artists might conflict about when rap “became” hip-hop, but the genre is generally seen as the same.


Unkorked

I'm around the same age and sadly the mid 90s were still 30 years ago.. :(


Lost-My-Mind-

No.....you're wrong......the 90s was not long ago......I'm not old yet.....I'M NOT OLD YET!!!


Donkey25000

You are correct! The 90s were just... oh my god... I may have gotten old.


Nangu_

current hip hop is still good you just have to find the right stuff


Cowboy_Reaper

Yeah this article contradicts that. https://timeline.carnegiehall.org/genres/rap-hip-hop


ms--lane

That article is very US centric and completely misses the connection to Reggae and Dancehall.


Cowboy_Reaper

But does it give accurate information about hip-hop in the 70s? The joke relies on the idea that the genre known as hip-hop started in 1973. The article doesn't claim there was no influence from earlier styles, it just points to the earliest recognition of the style.


eric_393

You...do not know what in the hell you're talking about!!!!!


Ragtime-Rochelle

Wasn't hip hop an outgrowth of disco? [Yeah, Wikipedia backs me up on this.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music) It may have not reached mainstream popularity until the 90s. Kind of like when people hear Disco and their brains go to the 70s so that's when they assume it was invented but it actually started in the 60s.


Substantial-Ad-9872

Hip replacement hop!


IMovedYourCheese

I'm old enough to remember when the youth were being corrupted by rock n roll.


Rezaka116

Okay… boomer?


Fartyfivedegrees

Don't say boomer, I'm still suffering PTSD that D day landing was murder.


UpVoteForKarma

Isn't D day pre-boomer? Boomer is Post WWII I have always thought.,....?


Tempest1677

What the fck are you on about


Fartyfivedegrees

Bombs go boom too..... .


AttentionSpanZero

It means hip-hop is now old enough to start passing out Werther's originals.


rarestakesando

Wait we talking Carmel candies. Remember caramello?


Whyisacrow-caws

Caramello Anthony? Great scorer no defense forward for the Nuggets Knicks Blazers and Lakers?


loptopandbingo

They're still around lol


Waitsfornoone

Actually, hip-hop may be way older than any of us thought. Little known fact: Albert Einstein was a musician throughout his life. He went through a phase where he experimented with hip hop. His rapper name was ... MC squared.


egmono

So terrible I upvoted.


macellan

This must be true like all the other things on Reddit.


Waitsfornoone

As if there was any doubt?


55percent_Unicorn

It'll soon need a hip op?


snafe_

After the hip-pop


itsalloverfolks007

Hip-hop is now popular with people most eligible for a hip-op


Drkindlycountryquack

Total Hip Replacement Hop


MattheqAC

They can call it replacement hip-hop


fiddlesdevil

If rapper's delight came out in 79, hip hop is only 44. Do love the song though and can't hear the song and not remember the old lady singing it, in the movie wedding singer. 😊


___HeyGFY___

The officially recognized and accepted birth date of hip-hop is August 11, 1973. You'll want to look up DJ Kool Herc.


RazloDFeef

All those years of breakdancing, they're gonna need Hip-Ops


ozmodiusnc

Get off my lizzle, my nizzle...


Lopsided_Copy7565

Hip hop has Hip problems now


SnooRobots3722

That there are now hip-hop artists that have had hip-op's?


Jellodyne

Hip hop is fine, it's that mumble rap that's ruining kids! Get off my lawn!


buckwurst

Hip Op more like it


sirjamesp

These are the breaks.


CCGamesSteve

Original fans of hip-hop now need to have hip-ops.


Dangerous-Link-3716

Hip-hop needs a hip op


LuckytoastSebastian

Arthritis is now kicking it.


Myth_of_Demons

Too old to be hip. It's just hop, now


shoesofwandering

That hippity-hop music! Left my wallet in El Segundo!”


ZhangtheGreat

It’s hippity-hoppity


unicorn4711

Hip replacement hop


gmag76

Time for a hip-op?


DaddyOhMy

It means I'm old.


AnGabhaDubh

Gonna need a Hip replacement


seidinove

It’s like the Onion headline announcing that Eminem is horrified that his daughter is dating a guy who grew up on his music.


Onouro

I thought this was going to be a Hip-Pop joke...


PoliteCanadian2

It’s now trying to put its kids through university?


ZhangtheGreat

Selling hot dogs at cemeteries to Homer Simpson


Readerofreddi

"I'm so old that my hip don't hop anymore"


3point21

Hip drop?


Atomic_Squash

Replacement hip-hop


earthwormjimjones

I'm reminded of an old Nick Swardson bit where he talks about he's going to be old as shit bumping Dr. Dre. It was on a Comedy Central Presents back when CC used to actually play a lot of actual comedy. https://youtu.be/Z7IlUIi-idA


yankdevil

It might need hip replacement surgery?


NotAnAIOrAmI

Meanwhile, you can come back baby, rock 'n roll never forgets! ^(But it does need a walker.)


Notwhoiwas42

It means that hip hop hops too much it will probably injure it's hip.


MR_Nokia_L

NOOOO! WE CAN'T TELEPORT BREAD ANYMORE!!


julzeseanyph

50+ From the 50s & 60s, Rock 'n' Roll Sure is now Hip Op 😆


Tasera

Hip-hop is now just hop.


KMcP13

All this SCRATCHINs making me itch! The roof, the roof, the roof is on FIRE! This is the WORLD DESTRUCTION your life ain't nothing! She wants to lead the glamorous life Without love it ain't much Yo yo yo yo baby pop, yeah you! That was the 80s in Long Beach, CA


snarchindarchin

It needs a hip hoperation


flyover_liberal

Ugh. I'm older than hip hop.


Dry-Area-2027

Hip hop needs a hip replacement


Rumplesforeskin

Hip-hop now needs a hip replacement


Dunge0nMast0r

.5 Cent


10Bandit10

We now have Classic Hip Hop?


revpidgeon

Hip Hop is old enough to get a Hip Op.


Unable-Arm-448

Hip replacement ha ha ha


thebarkbarkwoof

A lot of sports cars are going to get some upgraded rims?


MyDogHatesMyUsername

It's so old it actually forgot about Dre?


Dizzlean

I put on an oldies radio station (K-Earth 101) the other day thinking I was going to listen to music from the 50s and 60s and they were playing Fugees (Killing Me Softly) and 2pac (Changes).


mojo7824

Perhaps the confusion stems from the fact they were never able to answer the basic question of-Do you want to get up, or do you want to get down?


TomatoJuice303

The original artists are having their first hip ops now.


Dangerous-Celery-766

Nah its now hip - ops!


Age_Fantastic

I thought there was going to be a hip replacement surgery joke in here.


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ZhangtheGreat

We're going streaking!


bkellogg27

Hip hop needs a colonoscopy, STAT!


BigBubbaMac

Hip Hop now has Hip Problems


Ownlyson-1997

Hip hop is almost old enough to have a bad hip! 🤣


Villydawg

Hip hop is so old that it needs a hip hoperation.


FunAd2303

Snoop dog is due for a Pol i dent commercial.


NDodma01

Now they can see how silly they looked when they were N-boying in the street.


Optimus_Prime_Day

Incase watching a tiny desk concert with Cypress Hill yesterday and realized that since hip hop is new in our generation, we haven't really seen that genre age yet. Eventually they're will be a slew of older rappers out there in their 70s and 80s blaming the younger gen for ruining rap and trying to grandpa rap themselves.


ZhangtheGreat

[SNL joked about this a long time ago](https://youtu.be/B-ApM9G1GRY)


DIYdoofus

Get off my turf!


Whyisacrow-caws

It means this “music” genre has now sucked for a half century.


Bradboy102

I don't like Tuvan Throat Singing. That doesn't mean it's not music.


Chalkarts

Considering what I've heard recently, yeah, it's a valid concern.


cjh714

Why the fuck didn't it go the way of disco!😫


ShowMeTheTrees

I'm so sick of that crap. It all sounds the same. I wish it had never been created. Give me real singers with distinctive voices, good songs with lyrics, in bands playing actual instruments, no computer-generated beats. EDIT - Prince used to worry that future generations would think all music came from a computer. Here we are with this hip hop crap. Give me Prince any day of the week. That's real music.


ZhangtheGreat

Just tell us to get off your lawn 🙃


Obvious_wombat

It means that Bruce Lee missed out on it


hiphop_dudung

Dang.


nodobrajuz

No one knows what it means!


Smokweid

I think it’s more a case that hip-hop has is being corrupted by todays youth.


SonicMutant743

Hip-ho crisy