nah the way i see it is.

hip hop music, is the form of rap that is aimed at the culture, still showing respect to the roots e.t.c.

rap/hip pop as i call it, imo is what derived from the gangsta rap era which was the start of the money hungry rappers coming out.

see, i refuse to say sum1 like 50 centis part of my culture, because hip hop has a very bad name due to people like him, its got a history ofviolence, and is beleived to evolve round guns drugs money and "hoes"/the disrespect of women. when infact the REAL hip hop culture is far from that... but people have been driven to beleive otherwise because of what these ignorant annoying record execs keep pushing out.