rap music

1. 1.

   genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

   Synonymsraphip-hop

   Broaderpopular musicblack music

Questions about rap music

What does rap music mean?

rap music means "genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged".

What is another word for rap music?

Close synonyms include rap, hip-hop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.