As a hip-hop dance teacher myself, I know how difficult it can be to find good, clean music to use in hip-hop classes for kids.

I prefer not to use KidzBop or Disney songs in hip-hop if I can avoid it, mainly because I see this class as an opportunity to introduce young dancers to the genre of hip-hop music!

Here are some artists that have clean hip-hop music that this age group enjoys:

• Black Eyed Peas
• Soulja Boy
• Daft Punk
• Pitbull
• Rihanna
• Backstreet Boys
• Calvin Harris
• Usher
• Todrick Hall
• Outkast
• Justin Timberlake

It took some digging, but I put together a long playlist (with over 100 songs!) for dance teachers to use in hip-hop classes for young dancers, ages 3-5 years old:

Please note that you need to find songs that are not only clean/non-explicit but also don’t mention inappropriate topics (i.e. not talking about gr*nding or other common themes in hip-hop songs).

In other words, just because a song is clean doesn’t mean it is appropriate to use for a kid’s hip-hop dance class.

If you teach older kids, please see these playlists I’ve created in other posts.