Hip house
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Hip house, also known as rap house or house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip hop music, that originated in both London, United Kingdom and Chicago, United States in the mid to late 1980s.[1]
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Other names | Rap house, house rap |
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Cultural origins | Mid-late 1980s, London, UK and Chicago, U.S. |
Derivative forms | Eurodance |
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British group the Beatmasters' "Rok da House" is known to be the first hip house record,[2] having been written and pressed to vinyl in August 1986.[citation needed] Other early hip house records by British artists include "Pump Up the Volume" by MARRS and "Beat Dis" by Bomb the Bass, both from 1987.