Re: the trip-hop/hip-hop thing

Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.compulink.co.uk)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:21:23 +0100


> The first time I even heard the term "hip-hop" was from
> Naughty-by-Nature's "Hip-hop Hurray". Am I correct in assuming the term

> is quite new, relatively speaking?
>

Oh, yeah, it's a pretty recent development. It's only been in use for the
last fifteen, twenty years... :-)

Seriously though, the term has been around pretty much from the beginning
of rap ("hip-hop ya don't stop") and it's been used as a name for the form
as a whole for at least ten years.

..Mark..