As the genre moves forward into the next generation, we’re honoring its best moments with a list of 10 essential hip house tracks, with a playlist for your listening enjoyment. Yet hip house has seen a resurgence, if not an outright renaissance thanks to an upswing in house-laden hip-hop singles in the past half-decade, from the likes of Azealia Banks, Shamir, Vic Mensa and Le1f. In the early days, artists were only beginning to scratch the surface of how to blend house with hip-hop, reaching a peak in the late ’80s when artists such as Tyree and The KLF refined and essentially perfected the recipe. But, maybe unsurprisingly, it works remarkably well. Hip house is basically as simple a mixture of styles as you can get-it’s literally rapping over house beats (or scratching and sampling over house beats as the case may be). House music has been healthier and more profile of late than it had been for a while, but so has its hybrid offshoot, hip house.
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