rap to me is the lyrics spittin
hip hop- is the whole culture sorrounded it

^ wow you've jus won the brainest award for people who mention whats already known good 1 m81!!

I saw the guy giving a list of rappers and saying if they were rap or hip hop. I was wondering where Tupac would fit in this list in your opinions?

Hip-Hop has betta beats yo

Actually if u take it literally rap is just rhyming. So basically hiphop is the style of music we all love and rap is just spittin lyrics. But you can also rap on a rock track so rap is not exclusive to hiphop.

Rap is not a music style by itself. You can't say 50 cent makes rap music and KRS-one makes hiphop. They all make hiphop. Because that's their style of music.

yeh fo sure man im wid you thats da answer

I've been saying that all along. It's all Hip-Hop. You just have good Hip-Hop and bad Hip-Hop.

KRS-One is good Hip-Hop
50 Cent is complete garbage Hip-Hop

^^^ Nicca, it's all hip hop like I said, but rap is the subcategory. No lie, nowadays hip hop is like those uplifting nicca. Common, Dead Prez, Mos Def, those nicca. Rap is 50, X, Jay, Fab, those niccas. But I feel what everybody is saying no doubt.

50 is not complete garbage hip hop. Why would that be? Cuz he's 4xs platinum? Thats not commercialized, thats just selling records.

reminder
 

all of yalll are all forgettin bout tha b-boys aqnd b-girls...its like they dont even matter in hip-hop anymore....b-boys and b-girls were tha first ppl in hip-hop when it started so thats reminder to all of yalll....

P.S. if anyone wants to kno whta hip-hop really get tha tape of "The Freshest Kids"...a really goold movie on whats hip-hop....

I'll quote Krs-one on this one "Hip-hop is the culture and rap is the product" That pretty much explains the difference

anyone who talks about hip hop as a form of music is a herb plain and simple.

what the fuck is all this hip hop has better beats then rap, hip hop has better lyrics the rap?

rap is one of the elements of hip hop.

hip hop is DJ, breaking, graff, and rap. hip hop is a lifestyle it isnt a form of music.

rap is one of the elements of hip hop, i guess you could say rap is part of hip hops DNA.

nelly = rap
aesop rock = rap
talib= rap
ja rule= rap
juice= rap
lil bow wow = rap
demi gods = rap
p diddy = rap

Rap is a form of music . . .


Hip hop is a form of art . . .


Rap is an action . . .


Hip hop is a lifestyle . . .


Rap is keyboard and synth beats . . .


Hip hop has that raw sampled sound to it . . .


Hip hop involves turntables, graffiti, b-boying, and breakdancing as well as lyricism/emceeing . . .


HIp hop has a message . . .


Rap sometimes does but a lot of times it doesn't . . .




The difference between hip hop and rap to me is like the difference between a painting thats a painting and a painting thats a work of art . . .