Hip Hop and R&B

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Device that plays music and news through the air (5)
  2. 5. A material effigy that is worshipped (4)
  3. 7. Any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food (5)
  4. 8. Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to (6)
  5. 10. A very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model (6)
  6. 11. To take the first step or steps in carrying out an action (7)
  7. 13. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed (3)
  8. 15. The theater as a profession (5)
  9. 16. The visible part of a television transmission (5)

Down

  1. 1. The quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature (4)
  2. 2. Folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United (6)
  3. 3. Closely constrained or constricted or constricting (5)
  4. 6. A politically organized body of people under a single government (7)
  5. 9. Things we wear, like shirts and pants (7)
  6. 12. A language unit by which a person or thing is known (plural) (5)
  7. 14. Moving your body to music (5)