You can only choose ONE.
2006-08-05 14:06:45 · 44 answers · asked by 1/6,833,020,409 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
There IS a difference. Hip-Hop is based on NOTHING. Rap carries a message and has MEANING.
I mostly listen to rock, but I have a taste for all genres.
2006-08-05 16:52:24 · update #1
Hmm... Nobody wants to dispute my theory on Hip-Hop??
2006-08-06 15:55:49 · update #2
Um, I think you have that a little mixed up. While "hip hop music" and "rap music" mean virtually the same thing, a lot of people associate the term "rap" with the more mainstream variety of the genre 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.). In other words, it's hip hop that mostly has the meaning (i.e. - social/political issues, emotional content, etc.) and rap that's mostly about nonsense (materialism, misogyny, violence, etc.). For example...
Mos Def, Common, A Tribe Called Quest = hip hop
Pall Wall, Chamillionaire, Mike Jones = rap
See the difference?
So yeah, if you haven't guessed already, I'm all for hip hop. Always will be.
2006-08-07 20:16:30 · answer #1 · answered by SugrNspyce4 :) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Old School Rap circa late 80s carries the message.
2006-08-13 13:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there a difference???lol, neither, thank you!!
To address what you said about hip-hop being nothing and rap standing for something. To me, rap is diarrhea of the mouth. Way too much bitc*ing and not enough "MUSIC"
2006-08-13 08:22:20 · answer #3 · answered by sweetpea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hip-hop is based on something like that song by mike johns its about people he tried to get to listen to his music and girls he would try to hooked up with but they wouldn't give him the time of day and now his all famous and they all on and rock really really sucks because all they do is scream words in a mike
so i would hip-hop
2006-08-13 10:48:43 · answer #4 · answered by shaleshae 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hip-Hop
2006-08-13 05:00:50 · answer #5 · answered by figure_skater_1995 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the song and the singer's style and what the lyrics are about.anyway i like both.Rap might have a subject while hip-hop doesn't, but if there's a real singer in the song like Adam Levine or something(see "live again" by Ying Yang Twins, or "heard 'em say" by Kanye West)i'd like to listen to it, it gives the song a nice touch.
2006-08-13 08:38:26 · answer #6 · answered by ALlr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rap
2006-08-13 13:27:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rap
2006-08-05 14:10:40 · answer #8 · answered by MzChamillinator 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hip-hop! I really don't like rap.
2006-08-05 14:39:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not really comparable. hip hop is a culture based on emceeing, graffitti, bboying, and also turntablism to some extent.
rap is just the emceeing part of hip hop.
2006-08-11 08:22:49 · answer #10 · answered by fisherdude4eva 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋