Latin hip-hop

English

Noun

Latin hip-hop (uncountable)

1. (uncommon) Synonym of Latin freestyle
   • 1988 January 11, John Leland, “Latin hip-hop: The Beat Goes On”, in New York Magazine, page 18:

     That new sound is often called Latin hip-hop. It combines the hard beats of rap music, or “traditional” hip-hop, with the synthesizers and Latin percussion of seventies disco.

   • 2001, Agustín Laó-Montes, Arlene M. Dávila, editors, Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 246:

     Whereas certain audience segments and critics celebrated the dawn of Latin hip-hop, there was a strong feeling of suspicion and betrayal among those who felt themselves part of an urban Afro-diasporic, Black-matrixed hip-hop culture.