It's hip hop. Two words, no hyphen.

There's a good thread about this over here:
https://thegrammarvandal.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/atgv-hip-hop-or-hip-hop/

That'd be a Bingo, Johnny88.
It's definitely "Hippity Hop."

"...with an assist from Merriam-Webster and the New York Times..."

Yes, absolutely take your style/punctuation cues from the publication that still uses H.I.V. and L.G.B.T.

[ Hey, Stranger -- when I click on the blue 'a Bingo' in my comment, above, and get transported to bingodotcom or what/wherever, do I get Bonus Points (or a cut of the Action) for doing so?

It seems the interweb just got More Monetized.*

*can you make that blue, too?
Thanks! ]

Whoa.
"a Bingo" ain't Blue anymore

But 'Points' & 'click'* are....

There's something very Fishy going on here
and I intend Not to get to the bottom of it.

*funny

To Whom it may Concern [colon]

"and get transported to bingodotcom or what/wherever"

It was sudden
it was out of the Blue
[sorry]
and I may have aquired a little Whiplash from the incident.

Or at least a little PTSD.

Know any good attorneys?