Hip hop music

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 is a genre developed in the 1970s by African American

African American

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s in New York City

New York City

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. It began to spread across the world in the 80s, and became a major part of Beninese music after a 1992 concert by Senegalese-French rapper MC Solaar

MC Solaar

MC Solaar is a francophone hip hop and rap artist. He is one of the most internationally popular and influential French rappers....

. At that concert, the crew H2O performed a Fon language

Fon language

Fon is part of the Gbe language cluster and belongs to the Volta–Niger branch of the Niger–Congo languages. Fon is spoken mainly in Benin by approximately 1.7 million speakers, by the Fon people...

-cover of Solaar's "Bouge de là". H2O are known for using folk styles like the Mahi

Mahi people

The Mahi are a people of Benin. They live north of Abomey, from the Togo border on the west to the Zou River on the east, and south to Cové between the Zou and Ouemé rivers, north of the Dassa hills....

 tchinkounme and Yoruba music

Yoruba music

The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. Yoruba folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles...

 gbon

Gbon

Gbon is a small town and commune located in the northern part of the Ivory Coast. Population is about 10,000....

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DJs, rappers and crews

• Sakpata Boys: for a long-time the most popular crew in Cotonou
  Cotonou
  -Demographics:*1979: 320,348 *1992: 536,827 *2002: 665,100 *2005: 690,584 The main languages spoken in Cotonou include the Fon language, Aja language, Yoruba language and French.-Transport:...
  
  , known for using chants and other elements from Beninese Vodou
• Ardiess Posse: The next most popular crew to have emerged in the late 1990s. One of their most popular single is "Agbando" released in 2003 which was a feature song on their second album Evolution.
• Diamant Noir: Arguably the best beninese rap group, it consists of Amir and Anouar. Their debut album, "Faux freres, Vrais Jumeaux" (Fake Brothers, True Twins) was launched in 2005. It was a major success on the hip hop scene and influenced a lot of other rappers and crews.
• Kaysee Montejano: A talented beninese lyricist, he is known for his metaphorical abilities and his religious references in his rhymes. He launched his debut album "Genesis" in 2005. It featured major hits like "Say it all out" and "Ma vie".
• Polo Orisha: known professionally as Polo Orisha,is a producer and director ... Polo Orisha began his career in Recording Studio's and Radio Station..
• Oriki & Hermes: