Question on difference between rap and hip hop

[authentic]

ive always viewed it as hip hop is the club type versions of rap, with a quicker feel to it. ANd i see rap as poetry rapped with a dark beat. but now i see rap and hip hop used interchangeably, is the way i see rap and hip hop wrong? Are hip hop and rap the same thing? Ive been confused on this for while.

[West Coast Veteran]

Rap is the music.

Hip Hop is the culture.

Rap is a part of Hip Hop.

[eKardz]

Rap is the music.

Hip Hop is the culture.

Rap is a part of Hip Hop.

yeah hip hop is the lifestyle.  rap helps represent that

[authentic]

ok thanks guys

[411]

hip hop is like a pussy and rap is like a dick

[mauzip]

hip hop is like a pussy and rap is like a dick

now i understand why you like rap so much

[411]

i never said i liked it

[Elevz]

So actually, hiphop isn't a genre of music? I always classified artists like Gang Starr and Dilated Peoples as "hiphop" and morons like Nelly and Eminem "rap", for some reason. That's probably because they rap without really being part of hiphop, imo.

[Jip]

hip hop is music?

rap is lyrics?

[rafsta]

hip hop and rap are two different types of music...

but most people classify it as the same nowadays anyway.

[Woozie]

their meanings/understanding have changed over time because critics use the words loosely to describe music that they cant categorize into one definite group...

[Black Uhuru]

Hip Hop is DJing, Graphitti, Breaking AND Rapping

Rap is the music of Hip Hop Culture

[Kill]

people are so apodictic

THERE IS NOT ONE CLEAR, TRUE DEFINITION PROVING ALL THE OTHERS WRONG
(and i don´t care what KRS-ONE might have had coming out of that mouth of his)

MOST people tend to give the definition that rap is the music, and hiphop is the culture; but then rapping is actually defined by people doing the type of rythmically laying down there voice over a beat in the way peculiar to such artists....so is RJD2 hiphop music, although hiphop is supposed to be the culture/lifestyle/philosophy/attitude....? it´s not really rap however. and some people would call it trip-hop....

another common definition is the 4 elements thing, DJíng, breakdancing, graffiti, rapping. That´s yet another problematic simplification; some people have actually and very seriously defined hiphop as consisting out of 72 elements. what about the ´way of life´ that is hiphop, allegedly, is that supposed to consist out of rapping, using turntables, bombing trains and dancing? what about hiphop clothing? etc...

bottom line, i think it´s idiotic to try and find a ´concise´ definition of what hiphop is. there is no concise way of defning it. anything´s quite inadequate IMO

[Low Key]

I just call east coast music hip hop cause people get all offended if I call it rap.

And from my understanding, rap means rhythm and poetry. I think people just pretend they have shit figured out. I don't care. I listen to it cause I like it. Fuck a name for it if you can jam.

[Juronimo]

Rap is a part of hip hop

It's that simple