Whats the difference between rap and hip hop?

December 4th, 2009 by admin


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Layne [Evil Has No Boundaries] asked:


I'm sorry, I'm dumb when it comes to genres and sub genres. I was just wondering whats the difference between rap and hip hop? I've recently been trying to get into rap and hip hop (Eazy-E, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Run-DMC, NWA, ect) and I'm not an expert at categorization and I was wondering what their differences were?

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11 Responses to “Whats the difference between rap and hip hop?”

  1. Comment by single(Epul suspended)
    December 8th, 2009

    well rap isnt a sub genre thats like saying sing is a sub genre for Rock

  2. Comment by ®åp Muzi?™
    December 8th, 2009

    Same dizzle.

    Rap is a sub category of Hip Hop. Hip Hop is culture it includes breaking, djing, graffiti ect.

  3. Comment by rafi10_2000
    December 10th, 2009

    rap is real shit

  4. Comment by fitboyfitboyfitboy
    December 11th, 2009

    Rap ***** and Hip-Hop ***** even more,,”LONG LIVE HOUSE-MUSIC” underground, funky ,soulful, danceable,not angry and *** friendly

  5. Comment by Officer Ross(J.R.M.)
    December 13th, 2009

    The difference is that Hip-Hop is a culture,and Rap is Hip-Hop’s music.Rap is part of the 4 sub-cultures that make up Hip-hop:

    1.Rap
    2.DJing
    3.Graffitti
    4.Breakdancing

  6. Comment by janu4242
    December 14th, 2009

    Officer Ross and @ap Musik have it right. Everyone else is wrong. Rap is one of the 4 subparts of the hip-hop genre.

    You just wouldn’t know the other 3 because of today’s garbage.

  7. Comment by Dominic
    December 16th, 2009

    “Rap” is a verb, not a genre.

    Hip-hop is really the proper name.

    One can rap in any song, but that wouldn’t necessarily make it a hip-hop song.

    There are also a lot of other things associated with hip-hop, like clothes, breakdancing, slang, graffiti, DJing, rapping, etc.

  8. Comment by offiahmusic
    December 21st, 2009

    Hip Hop is usually reffered to as a culture, whereas rap is a genre of music. As genres, I’ve heard that people classify negative lyrics as rap, and positive lyrics as hip hop. I disagree. I’m a fan of the culture, and to me, its full of ambiguos people. Any form of classification is debatable in this world, and thats one reason why it continues to thrive and expand.

  9. Comment by hello my name is
    December 23rd, 2009

    Rap is not what you hear today. Rap is like Run DMC and Eaz E and also Cool G RAP. Hip Hop is what you will ear mostly today such as on the radio. It will consist more of Soulja Boy and Flo Rida.

  10. Comment by ae86drifter2001
    December 25th, 2009

    Rap is something you do, Hip Hop is something you live.

  11. Comment by streetlegend94
    December 27th, 2009

    hip hop is a sub genres….. some of yall need to step up your rap music knowledge. It was called rap when it started in the mid 70′s.