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what is difference between hip hop and rap?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You should have looked this up first but....

    Hip Hop is a genre of music, Rap is a verb. People rap, the music that they make is Hip Hop. THEY ARE NOT TWO GENRES! A Rapper Raps, just like a Singer Sings. Do you call the music a singer makes Sing? Is it the genre of Sing? No it's not....neither is there a genre of Rap.

  • Neil A
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Rap is the lyrics in a hip hop song. Hip hop is a genre of music. A rapper raps in a song(hip hop) - rap is just the lyrics.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hip Hop is a CULTURE

    Rap is a SUB-GENRE of hip hop.

    Afrika Bambatta already told us, the 5 pillars:

    Rappin/emcee

    Breakdance

    Graffiti

    DJing

    Beatboxing

    so, rap is just 1 of the 5 sub genres of hip hop.

    Source(s): my brain.
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