French hip hop or commonly French rap, is the hip hop music style developed in French-speaking countries. France is the second largest hip-hop market in the world after the United States.

Lance Taylor, also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York. He is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of Hip Hop culture. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing.