What's the difference between hip hop and rap?
931423
There are generally two views that are accepted:\n1. Hip-hop is the culture which rap is merely a part of.  In that sense, the hip-hop culture consists of rap, break dancing, etc.\n2. Some refer to rap as the deragatory, idiotic music that tends to go mainstream (like practically anything by Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, etc) and hip-hop as the less popular/less mainstream music that focuses on political issues, love (actual love, not hoes, prostitutes and what-have-you), etc.\nOh and examples of good artists  (IMO) are:\nThe Roots\nTalib Kweli\nMos Def\nBeatnuts\n\nAnd here's an exerpt from one of my favorite songs, just to reinforce that while mainstream rap music is oversaturated with derogatory, disgusting, dumb songs, that there are quite a few rappers that have songs that focus on respectable topics:\n"Keepin' your head above water, hustlin' to survive\nSome people chasin' a dream, others just chasin' a high\nSome people blind leading the blind, they chasin' a lie\nSome people chokin', backs broken, barely makin' it by\nBut still they workin' all they live, they pushin' for the light\nGivin' everything they got to stitch them swishes on ya Nike's\nPuttin' pockets on our jeans, mining diamonds for them rings\nRewarded with small change and bullets in the brains\nAnd it makes me feel strange everything we take for granted"\nFrom "Why (What's Going On)?" by The Roots\nI hope that clears things up.
71264
I do enjoy some rap and here is why...I am a musician and have performed in several different genre of music. A few years ago I started a dance band and studied different forms of dance music to include disco and rap. \n\nThe thing that drives dance music is the beat. The rap music that I get into always has a beat you can dance to. \n\nSome of my favs are Digital Underground, Will Smith, black Eyed Peas, and LL Cool J.
551047
Rock all the way!  Because it gets your adrenaline going.  Hip Hop just doesn't cut it for action sequences.
356705
I think that is a very debatable question, I doubt there is one definitive answer. Was it in Africa 100 years ago... or was it in Philly in the '70's or something. (Totally off base with the '70's thing I bet, haha). Btu either way.. maybe someone has an answer... or what they consider the answer. And who decides what is considered Rap anyway... is Hip Hop the same thing? Would Reggae count too? Sorry for answering you with just more quesitons. I'm no good at this. Haha.
1028966
Hip = groovy, funky\nhop = dance
1115104
Rap in general. All they "rap" about is sex, drugs, cars, gangs, and fights. None of them actually write songs with meanings, just things little tween kids want to be or do when they grow up. Music is important and special and shouldn't be treated like shit to telling people how to smack their bitch up or something stupid like that.
242421
The thing is back when rap was classic they had stuff to right about. The struggle, gangs, drugs deteroating the neiborhood etc. Tupac and others wrote about this. But now they dont really talk about it all that much. By the way I dont even listent to rap and I know this.
894065
Rock by FAR!  Rap isn't music, its just fast, crude poetry.  Notice at rap concerts there are usually no actual instruments, therefore not really music.  I'd rather deal with emotions than smoke a blunt or fuck a bitch anytime.
1059566
ROCK is the best. RAP is cRAP.
657256
Many rap acts push the envelope of sexuality, drugs, murders, and gang life.  But rap isn't doing anything that hasn't been done before.  Metal music tends to celebrate many of these themes.  The difference is that music in the past usually pushed the envelope using some time of clever lyrics or symbolism.  Today the rap lyrics just come right out and say it.  The biggest difference between rap and the other genres that have the same celebration of unrealistic decadent lifestyles is the quality of the musicianship.  Do any rap musicians even know how to read music or play an instrument?  The real crime here is that the hip hop generation is growing up listening to crappy music.  There are quality musicians all over the world not being heard because of the popularity of this music that's all about the lifestyle and not about the musicianship.
261484
The word "rap" is not in that songs lyrics.
169363
Now let me say this. To compare Rock to Rap is to compare and apple to an orange. So to say one is beter than the other is not a proper statement> I personaly like both. I listen to ALL music and every genre has somrthing to offer to its listeners.
387489
Definitely rap and hip-hop. Rap is misunderstood these days, thanks to wankstas like 50 Cent.
57474
you can't SING rap ,you have to make words rhyme and flow and that how u rap
92957
HIP HOP AND RAP ARE DEFINETELY MAKING AN IMPACT NOW.  IF U LOOK AT THE COMMERCIALS ON TV SUCH AS CAR COMMERCIALS AND PHONE COMMERCIALS...THE SONGS THAT ARE PLAYING ARE HIP HOP.  ITS ABOUT TIME THAT PEOPLE RECONGNIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IT INSTEAD OF MAKING IT A RACIAL ISSUE.  IT REALLY IS AN ART FORM AND I ADMIRE EVERYONE THATS IN THAT FIELD OF WORK...HELL I WOULD LOVE TO BE AN ARTIST...HAHAHA
895976
Because back in the Grandmaster Flash days and then in the Beastie boys days it was all about hip hop music.  Now it's all about bling and money not the meaning of rap and hip hop.  It is really ashame.
711282
It seems that a lot of people here are a little confused.  Here's the straight answer...\n\n"Hip hop music" and "rap music" mean virtually the same thing. However, some people associate the term "rap" with the more mainstream variety of the genre (which nowadays often includes R&B or pop elements) and reserve the term "hip hop" for the variety of the genre that stays closer to the roots of hip hop music (i.e. - speaking on social and/or political issues, storytelling, bragging about one's lyrical skills while roasting another MC, etc.).\n\nBut to be really specific, hip hop itself is a culture. Rap music or hip hop music (specifically, MCing) is just one element of that culture. The other elements of the culture are graffiti, breakdancing (aka - breakin'), DJing and a more recently added element, beatboxing.