Hip hop is a great genre of music!. It was developed in the USA in the 70s and 80s.1
Ah, that's good to know. What do you like about hip hop?
European hip hop is interesting too. German stuff is pretty good.
Anything in particular I should check out?
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans and Latino Americans in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s. It consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and
Power Peace". 
In his 1986 autobiography, Brown related the lyrical message of "Brother Rapp" to his support of hip hop music:
I admire the rap and the break dancing and all the stuff coming out of hip hop. A lot of the records are messages that express community problems. Used right, those records could help prevent the riots of the sixties from happening again. If you know how a community feels about things, then you can do something about it... That's what my song "