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Trip hop may have originated in the mid-1980s in Bristol, UK, during a time when American hip hop started to gain increasing popularity there along with the then exploding popularity of the house music and dance scene.

According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the term was first used in 1989, though the use is not attributed to anyone. The term ' trip hop ' was first used in print by Andy Pemberton, a music journalist writing for Mixmag, in June 1994 to describe Mo Wax Records Artist ( U. K ) R. P. M and ( American ) DJ Shadow's " In / Flux " single.

The originators of hip hop music in the 1970s had been Jamaican-born New Yorkers, but new US regional forms of MCing and DJing arose, and the genre's rise to mainstream success quickly severed it from direct Caribbean antecedents.

The UK hip-hop scene tended to sample more deeply from Jamaican influences, due to the larger Caribbean ancestry of the British black population, and the existing mass British popularity of reggae, dancehall and dub in the 1980s.

Under the influence of American hip hop from the 1980s, both black and white British youth became listeners of hip hop.

Hip hop in the UK, unlike in the US, was immediately fused with soul, R & B and elements of dancehall.