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Hip Hop

341 tracks by 126 artists, spanning 1989–2026 — every one chosen and shelved by a person, not a model. This page is the room’s hip hop shelf, counted honestly.

341tracks
126artists
1989–2026years covered
17%placed by a hand

59 of 341 tracks placed by a hand on the room’s four dials · 282 still waiting — a genre default, a placeholder, or a reading estimated from the record rather than taken from it

Where this shelf sits

Moodbright
blueelated
Energymoving
barely movingdriving
Densitydense
one instrumentwall of sound
Head · Bodyfor the body
all headall body

The mean of the 59 tracks on this shelf a person has actually placed. The other 282 are excluded: genre defaults and placeholders nobody has listened to yet, and records placed from knowing them rather than from hearing this pressing. An estimate may inform a choice; it may never render as a measurement, and a dial is a measurement.

Across time

1980
1990
2000
2010
2020

Heaviest in the 2000s — 111 of 308 dated tracks.

The biggest shelves

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hand-curated by zubair jeewanjee · no algorithm

Counts computed from the room’s own catalogue on 2026-08-29. Tracks that arrived carrying this genre’s default settings are counted here but held out of the room’s maps until somebody listens — a placeholder is not a placement. — Zubair Jeewanjee · zubair.jeewanjee@gmail.com