whats the difference between rap and hip hop?

Answer 1

Historically, rap music comes from hip-hop culture. The roots of rap music trace back to the Jamaican ska era of the mid-60s. MCs rapping over party music made its way to New York a decade later, thanks to DJ Kool Herc, a man many crown the "Father of Hip Hop." Kool Herc emigrated from Jamaica to New York in 1967 and helped give birth to the hip-hop culture that would continue to thrive and spread.

The Hip Hop Network notes that while the Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 "Rapper's Delight" was the first breakthrough rap hit, it emerged from a "an inner-city phenomenon centering on DJs and including equal proportions of break dancing, MCing, and graffiti art."

More recently, "rap" has been used to describe the aggressive, mass-market produced music of Nas or Eminem. But, as one online encyclopedia points out, "Not all music that has rapping in it, however, is actually rap music, and not all hip-hop music has rapping in it." Artists like Jurassic 5 and De La Soul typify hip-hop music, which is generally more multi-instrumented and less in-your-face.

Rap and hip-hop music is now a huge industry, and it has the diversity of a huge industry. There's Christian rap, Latin rap, southern rap. Check out the Rap and Hip-Hop category in the Yahoo! Directory for more resources, including Davy D's Hip Hop Corner.

Answer 2

Ya know, to my understanding, "rap" is just an art form - music - and "hip hop" is a culture - which happens to include rap. Even back in the day with artists such as LL Cool J, Run DMC, KRS-One, and so forth...they were rappers, spoken-word musicians (like poets). And today, you have Jay-Z, Nas, and a litany of others, all rappers. Now, hip hop is...it's like this - hip hop is the nucleus and rap is one component of a vast structure.

For instance, you'll hear someone on television say, "Now that's hip hop." Basketball can be hip hop. The clothing you wear can be hip hop. The way you converse with another person can be hip hop. Visual art expressionism, such as graffiti, IS hip hop. It's just a culture with many elements - and rap happens to be one. This is how I understand it. If I could add one more thing, I agree that the term "rap," today has a negative context, whereas "hip hop" is a positive word.

Answer 3

Rap is more with words and very little music. It is basically poetry. To where hip hop is more of a dance thing. You can't really dance to a lot of rap. Some of it you can. And sometimes rap doesn't have a chorus line. It just kinda goes straight through.

Answer 4

rap sucks and hip hop blows

Answer 5

rap is more of eminem and 50 cent hiphop is more of will smith and usher

Answer 6

rap should be self explanatory.....hip hop iz just bewteen rap and r&b.......u feel it....

Answer 7

The spelling.

Answer 8

They both suck exactly the same....there is no diff.

Answer 9

rap shoot ******, hiphop shoot stereotypes

Answer 10

nothing, its all CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!