Japanese hip hop From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ||This
article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss
these issues on the talk page. |Japanese hip hop| |Stylistic
origins||Old school hip hop |Cultural origins||Late 1980s in
Japan| |Typical instruments||Vocals – turntables – sampler –
keyboards| Japanese hip hop (or J-hip hop) is said to have begun
when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip
hop records in the early 1980s. Japanese hip hop generally tends
to be most directly influenced by old school hip hop, taking
from the era's catchy beats, dance culture, and overall fun and
carefree nature and incorporating it into their music. As a
result, hip hop stands as one of the most commercially viable
mainstream music genres in Japan, and the line between it and
pop music is frequently blurred. History of Hip-hop in Japan
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