Hip Hopera

[Grant Barrett]

The largest popularizer of the term "hip-hopera" that I know of is
the Kleptones, a couple of fellows who last year used sampling from
guitar rock and hip-hop to create an album-length mash-up called "A
Night at the Hip-Hopera." It's really very good.

http://www.kleptones.com/pages/downloads_hiphopera.html
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/09/23/kleptone.shtml

I wouldn't be surprised to find there are other, earlier uses, since
"hip hop" is constantly being punned on and blended.

On Nov 17, 2005, at 09:31, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> "Hip Hopera" has been used in various news stories, including
> Murder Inc.'s Gotti brothers that's in the newspapers this
> week...OT: 8,000 Big Apple website hits yesterday?

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
http://www.doubletongued.org/