For years, the debate has ensued about what exactly the difference is between rap music and hip hop music, and the main crux of the argument centers around. “What’s the difference between rap and hip-hop?” This is a common question for people becoming interested in hip-hop culture. It is also a distinction that is extremely important for Next Level and the work we do around the world. The standard answer is that hip-hop is a culture with four element.
Difference Between Rap And Hip HopThe Difference Between Rap And Hip Hop is actually a very simple explanation. This is a long long LONG talked about debate. What I am saying here is going to be my educated opinion on the whole matter but I know it will hold some light to the issue for you if you are a bit confused.I know a lot of people have this question.
I know for years and years I wasn’t sure what the true answer was. Then after years of being inside the music industry and seeing it from the outside in and then the inside out, I finally started understanding the difference between rap and hip hop.So what is the Difference Between Rap And Hip Hop?Rap – To be completely honest, anyone can rap.
Any party you go to you can find some guy who calls himself a ‘Rapper’. It’s not hard to rhyme words and learn rhyme patterns and start rapping. That’s why everyone and their brother is a rapper nowadays. What they are not though, is artist. They are not pieces of culture that change the way people live their lives. They do influence society in any way shape or form.A rapper is just that, a rapper.
A word that no one even takes seriously when you tell them that you are one. I am EXTREMELY established as an Artist and started as a rapper. It’s funny because when people ask what I do, I still don’t tell them that I make music or rap. Because then I have to show them that I am not just a rapper. But that I am an actual artist. I’d have to do that by providing them proof of my fan base size and then actually showing them that my music is real, heartfelt, honest and resonates with people.Even though it may seem like they are similar, there is such a drastic difference in the two that just establishing the fact that you are a Hip Hop Artist instead of a rapper in a conversation when meeting someone could take upwards of 10 minutes to explain.Hip Hop – Hip Hop affects everything that it touches.
Hip Hop has a culture.Hip Hop doesn’t always have the most honest or real lyrics but the person who is creating the hip hop has a unique style and or content that will be able to create a new sound and therefore something that can affect culture society.Looking back into the early 90’s, you’ll notice there were a ton of hit songs that were SUPER HOT and HUGELY recognized songs but they weren’t all considered Hip Hop. For instance, Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby was a massive hit song. But because he was literally just a rapper, he wasn’t at all Hip Hop.Now look at something like Dr.
Dre and everything that NWA did. While they may have been just rappers, what they did affected culture so heavily it created its own wave and greatly affected culture, which makes them one of the definitions of Hip Hop.More great examples are of course Tupac, Biggie Smalls and Big Pun.Tupac spoke the truth. His music resonated with people because it seemed to be FOR the peopleBiggie Smalls rapped about elegant life and coming from rags to riches. His flow and delivery were pristine.Big Pun prided himself on his vocabulary skills and was well known for using rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses to create his raps.While they were all quite different, all of them affected culture in their own massive way. They all stood for something different in Hip Hop while actually still standing for the same thing.Now it is completely possible to affect society and not be Hip Hop, but it depends on a lot of factors.I mean could you ever really consider Iggy Azalea Hip Hop? Not really but she influences society and has a massive fan base. But she doesn’t affect society in a way that could be considered Hip Hop.She was literally an example that you could take a pretty white female and create controversy with her in order to generate buzz and a fan base.
Understands how the game works and he definitely made millions off of using her to manipulate children and also stir up the industry.I could talk about the Difference Between Rap And Hip Hop for a long long long long article. But the point has been made above. I’m sure you get it now.The key take away from all of this is that you need to be MORE than just a RAPPER. I would have called this site Smart Artist if people would have understood the difference between rapper and artist and knew I was talking about a rap artist. Because being a rapper isn’t enough.
You need to work on your craft and build your culture and fan base.You need to create your culture and spread it to everyone you can. As you spread you will affect more and more people which will change small pieces at a time and eventually big pieces thereby embedding you into society.– NovAK.
Rap and hip hop are two of the most popular types of music in the hip hop subculture. These two genres have had tremendous impact on mass media and western culture. First developed in New York City in the 1970s, the hip hop subculture grew first among the African American and Latino American community. Over time, the music and culture gained widespread acceptance and by the late 1990s could be found in all popular media and entertainment worldwide.There are three main differences between rap and: musical features, culture and community message. These features are critical to separating these two very similar types of music from other popular music. The impact of rap and hip hop on modern culture has exceeded all expectations and continues to influence everything from commercials to politics.The musical features of rap and hip hop are quite different. Rap is a combination of rhyming and poetry to a musical beat.
The subject of the rap can range from local events to relationships. In the early 1970s and 1980s, rappers provided social commentary on issues that were not receiving regular media attention. In later years, popular rap became more focused on consumer commercialism and relationship issues.
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Hip hop music includes rhythm and blues and beat boxing. Rhythm and blues or R&B music is a combination of soul and pop music. Singers combine their lyrics to fast-paced music that is often used as the background to complex dance routines. This type of music lead the cross over into popular music with soulful singing and lyrics focused on common relationship issues.The culture of is focused on poetry and quality of lyrics. Rap music has a strong background in improvisational poetry. The artists or rappers are expected to create poetry that discusses the main issues of the community, politics, or media events.
The artists in this area of music are predominately men, while hip hop music is a mixture of men and woman. Rap groups are also fairly rare, with most rappers being solo artists.The difference between rap and hip hop from a community message angle is the role of the music in the popular media. Rap is a tool used to express current events and to tell the stories of people within the local community.
Hip hop music is used to express hope for the future and to remember the successes of the past. I feel the author is still at an entry level of discourse on this subject.anon52831 is the closest to the truth in this piece. Such as Rakim, Chuck D, Guru, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, et al, have defined it thus: “Rap is something you do, Hip Hop is something you live.”This is a basic explanation, but will be lost on people who do not understand or do not participate in the culture.
The Five Elements, Emceeing (Rapping when inculcated with the other elements), BBoying (and the cultures within that), DJing (and producing) and Graffiti (not stencilling such as made popular by artists such as Banksy) are all embellished by the Fifth Element: Knowledge of the culture, which subsumes the history, politics, aesthetics and conventions of the rest of the whole. While culture is subject to flux and change, there is and has always been, a requirement to adherence to each element in context with the Fifth Element, so as to inform and establish authenticity.It is not enough to say Rap (music) is one element, or that Hip Hop is merely a cultural term, because fast forwarding decades on, you now have a sub-genre which follows and ascribes to different aesthetics, politics and conventions than that which is practiced by the rest of the culture. Even though this is mistakenly often described as Hip Hop and vice versa, Rap (music) exhibits multiple aesthetics, often at odds with its core elements, enough to make it appear unrecognizable from Hip Hop forms still being practiced.
For example, the conventions which artists such as De La Soul, producers like Pete Rock or BBoys like Crazy Legs follow are vastly different from those practiced by commercial examples. This is not to dismiss commercial output. It has its place.But, I like to use the analogy of the difference between a banana and a plantain.
Both come from the same family, and look similar, but are two completely different types of food crops and taste different even when prepared the same way. The banana is Rap, a sweet fruit used for desserts and snacks, while Hip Hop is the plantain, used for main meals and can be converted into a wider range of food options.Hip Hop is both a culture and a genre of music. Rap, however, is a sub-genre of Hip Hop and an element of it, especially when practiced without the conventions and aesthetics of the parent genre.
The scion is not the source. I agree with anon52831. I don't like the argument. In a strange way, it reminds me of discourse like hoes vs queens/real women, or even worse.
The famous Chris Rock with the 'N' word vs black people. It's just idealising, categorising.You take hip-hop/rap music and then say O.K. We don't like this aspect of it, e.g., commercialism, lack of substance or political message, focus on materialism, and because we don't like that part, we say O.K.
That's category A and this is category C.What is referred to as hip hop music in this article can be called rap, hip hop, R&B, or most likely pop music! Just because some dude is rapping doesn't make it hip-hop, or just because someone's singing doesn't make it not hip-hop. I see rap as a way of singing that could be done potentially with all genres of music. While I do agree that the author should have explained more about hip-hop being a sub-culture movement and that rap is a genre of music created by the movement, I also agree with what he/she was saying as a whole because over time, the phrase hip-hop has become associated with a 'pop' version of rap. As much as lovers of original hip-hop do not want to admit this, it cannot be denied. So much if what people listen to today is just auto-synthesized, witless nonsense pasted on a catchy beat. This doesn't mean there aren't any great artists out there or songs worth blasting in your car.
You just have to be careful what you listen to.