Music Diversity

As music and a lifestyle hip-hop is very widely transitional, flowing easily into the styles of almost every other genre out there which has made the creation of many new music sub-genres pop up all over the world. Traditionally hip-hop is a mainly an African American driven style but, due to it's wide popularity and ease of transition into other genres and lifestyle, many performers and artists of all race, creed, and color have emerged into the spotlight. It is a known fact that the fastest selling hip-hop album of all time, the Marshall Mathers LP, was released by a white male known as Emenim. Jamaicans have contributed a great deal to hip-hop music as well both adapting their cultural sounds to hip-hop and it to theirs.

One of the most popular artists known for this style is Jamaica's Wyclef Jean. During the 1990s hardcore punk and rock music made the transition into the realm of hip-hop. This collaboration became what is now known as rap-core. Artists such as Cypress Hill, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and P.O.D. helped to make this sound a massive hit during the mid to late 1990s. Also other rock artists began using rap styling occasionally in their lyrics. One of the best examples of this was Bare Naked Ladies and their song One Week. Over the last thirty years hip-hop has managed to combine itself with every other genre of music available almost always resulting in success in the music industry.

In today's culture one of the biggest examples of hip-hop diversity are the artists Lil' Wayne and and Kevin Rudolf. These two have created a mixture of modern hip-hop and rock music that is being copied by artists all over the world and some might say is the defining sound of our time.