Example sentences for: hip-hop

How can you use “hip-hop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Good reviews, for the most part, for the autobiography of one of hip-hop's most successful artists: "An amusing, contemplative memoir" that paints "a surprisingly humanistic portrait" of the crack dealer turned platinum-selling musician ( Kirkus Reviews ). The tales of his misspent youth and rise to fame are "eloquently told" (Michael Harris, the Los Angeles Times ). One reviewer splits from the pack and delivers a withering pan: "[T]he ability to sell a lot of records has almost nothing to do with insight or maturity.

  • The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality programming: their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).

  • Let Ronin Ro, whose book, Gangsta , comes out next month, explain: "Horror-core," he writes, "was to hip-hop what death metal is to Brahms or Mozart."

  • The three Clintons, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Muhammad Ali, and hip-hop star Wyclef Jean were among the attendees.

  • Beck sheds the hip-hop style of his Grammy-winning album Odelay in favor of a more folk-influenced, melodic sound.


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