Rap rock

Rap rock
Urban Dance Squad performing in 2006
Stylistic origins	Hip hop rock
Cultural origins	Early to mid-1980s, United States
Other topics
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Rap rock is a music genre that developed from the early to mid-1980s, when hip hop DJs incorporated rock records into their routines and rappers began incorporating original and sampled rock instrumentation into hip hop music. Rap rock is considered to be rock music in which lyrics are rapped, rather than sung. The genre achieved its greatest success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.