Hip house

Hip house
Hip house
Other names	Rap house, house rap
Stylistic origins	House; hip hop; acid house; pop rap;
Cultural origins	Mid-late 1980s, London, UK and Chicago, U.S.
Derivative forms	Eurodance
Other topics
	List of house artists and DJs; styles of house music; ghetto house;

Hip house, also known as rap house or house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip hop music, that originated in both London, United Kingdom and Chicago, United States in the mid to late 1980s.^[1]

British group the Beatmasters' "Rok da House" is known to be the very first hip house record,^[2] having been written and pressed to vinyl in August 1986.^{[citation needed]} Other early hip house records by British artists include "Pump Up the Volume" by MARRS and "Beat Dis" by Bomb the Bass, both from 1987.

History

Minor controversy ensued in 1988 when a U.S. record called "Turn Up the Bass" by

Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock with "It Takes Two", and Tony Scott

's "That's How I'm Living".

After successful releases by the Beatmasters,

S-Express, Bomb the Bass and M|A|R|R|S

.

Hip house's further crossover success would come in the form of two ground breaking records: "I'll House You" by the

Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock. "I'll House You" is generally seen as a collaboration between New York City house-music producer Todd Terry and the Jungle Brothers (an Afrocentric hip-hop group from New York). "It Takes Two" was described by Hip Hop Connection magazine as "...the first palatable form of hip-house for hardcore hip hop fans."^{[citation needed}

]

Hip hop rappers that would receive the hip house remix treatment included Vitamin C, Sweet Tee, Raze, and the D.O.C.

Hip house tracks featured on popular dance compilations including Telstar's Deep Heat compilation series and was championed by DJs such as To Kool Chris and Chad Jackson.

As house music emerged as a worldwide industry by the late 1980s, U.S. acts such as C+C Music Factory would use the hip house formula in hits such as "Gonna Make You Sweat", as well as the Eurodance genre — particularly with hits by the Belgian group Technotronic, German groups Snap! and Real McCoy, and Italian Lee Marrow.

Influence on UK rave scene

Late 1980s hip house releases by UK artists such as

Blapps Posse and Shut Up and Dance were an early influence towards the early 1990s UK rave scene and the breakbeat hardcore genre (and genres that developed from it such as jungle).^[4]^[5]