Title:

International Hip Hop

Description:

Although its roots are in the United States, hip hop is a genre of music that spread across the world in the 1980s with some significant hip hop talent coming out of countries like Haiti and the Dominican Republic and even Jamaica by the 1990s. While the genre moved into mainstream music much sooner in the United States, hip hop samples and their resulting mega hits also emerged in the United Kingdom where a different take on the genre became popular.  Hip hop music in Brazil has become an interesting genre since songs in that country have often been about the volatile political issues of the day.