Meanings
- uncommonuncountableSynonym of Latin freestyle.
That new sound is often called Latin hip-hop. It combines the hard beats of rap music, or “traditional” hip-hop, with the synthesizers and Latin percussion of seventies disco.
1988 January 11, John Leland, “Latin hip-hop: The Beat Goes On”, in New York Magazine, page 181 more example
Whereas certain audience segments and critics celebrated the dawn of Latin hip-hop, there was a strong feeling of suspicion and betrayal among those who felt themselves part of an urban Afro-diasporic, Black-matrixed hip-hop culture.
2001, Agustín Laó-Montes, Arlene M. Dávila, editors, Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 246Synonyms: Latin freestyle
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Latin freestyle.
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