is rap and hip hop the same if not what is eminem classed as?

Answer 1

No, they are totally different. Rap is mostly garbage, however there are some good rappers. Eminem is rap. Hip hop is positive, socially conscious, uplifting, very truthful, and actually has a message of empowerment in it. Unfortunately, rap is what sells and true hip hop artists get slept on.

Answer 2

Rap music comes from hip-hop culter, the roots of rap music trace back to the Jamaican ska era of the mid 60's. 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.

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."

Answer 3

rap and hip hop are not the same. Eminem is rap. Slug from the group "Atmosphere" is hip hop.

Answer 4

Rap and hiphop have the same roots but are NOT the same thing. I like to call Eminem WiggerRap but it's just rap.

Answer 5

rap & hip hop is not the same , eminem is a hip hop artiest

Answer 6

yeah it pretty much is these days...so yeah eminem is classified as rap/hip hop

Answer 7

He's rap...