What's the difference between HIPHOP songs and rap?

The difference between HIPHOP and RAP.

1, formally.

Hip-hop is a cultural form; Rap is a musical style.

2. content.

Hip hop includes rap; And rap is just a kind of hip hop.

3. In the form of expression.

Hip-hop has many forms, such as rap, hip-hop, graffiti, CD DJ and so on. Rap is rap.

4. Source formation.

Hip-hop is a Jamaican immigrant from Bronx West Street. Kool Herc often holds "music parties" at home, while DJ Kool Herc's parties are getting bigger and bigger in the Bronx. Rap is a fast rhyming jargon that used to be used by radio presenters to introduce records.

Extended data

Hip-hop is a cultural form, which was born in the streets of American slums. Generally speaking, it was born in Bronx, new york, USA. Hip-hop first emerged among African-American and Hispanic youths in the Bronx, northern new york, and then developed and spread all over the world.

The origin of that name "hip-hop"

In June1973165438+1October 12, Bambaataa founded a street dance troupe Zulu Nation based on his own youth gang organization. The group consists of six members, including a DJ and two small street dance groups.

Love Bug Starski, a Zulu member, invented the word "hiphop" and used it to name his party. Zulu people have created a new way of street dance, attracting a large number of followers for themselves and some subway graffiti lovers.

Rap is a word in black slang, which is equivalent to "talking", and Chinese means rap. That is, a special form of singing with rhythm. Originated from the poor black community in new york. It is characterized by telling a series of rhyming poems quickly under the background of mechanical rhythm.

At the end of 1990s, with the popularity of a group of new rappers and white-dominated rap rock, the music once abandoned by blacks returned to the forefront of pop music, at least in the new century, this trend will not fade. Rap is an important part of American black music, the main tone of street culture and a "dark chocolate" in world pop music.

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