The difference between the two: rap is a form of folk art, including speaking and singing, some in Chinese and some in English, and most of them are in songs. Hip hop was born in the ghettos of the United States and is a form of street culture. Hip-hop includes four major elements: R&B, DJ, floor break dancing and graffiti. R&B is rap, so rap is only one element of hip-hop.
Rap is a word in black slang, equivalent to "talking", and the Chinese meaning is rap. Rap is a special form of singing that involves speaking rhythmically. Therefore, hip-hop covers a wide range of genres, while rap is just a separate genre. :
Hip-hop is a marginal subculture that originated among African-American and Latino youths in the South Bronx and Harlem in New York City in the 1970s, and then developed into an emerging art form. and swept the world. In addition, subcultures such as beatboxing, hip-hop fashion, and hip-hop slang have also been derived. In the past two years, "hip-hop" has become increasingly popular in our country due to a popular Internet program and a series of controversial topics.
All art forms that perform in the form of oral rap are collectively called folk art, so they are also called rap art. The basic characteristic of folk art is that it uses the third person voice and uses oral rap to narrate.
In the broad sense, rap can be regarded as rap, but in the narrow sense, rap mostly refers to Chinese folk art.
Rapping is a special form of singing that speaks rhythmically. Originated in the poor black areas of New York. It is characterized by the rapid utterance of a series of rhymed verses against a background of mechanical rhythmic sounds. One source of this form is the rapid, rhyming jargon used by radio presenters in the past when introducing records. The rhythm of rap or rap music, blues music style including vocals and so on are cleverly blended with the music.
With the emergence of the "DJ" method that is now widely known and commonly used by DJs, rap began to be spread by black street culture, and derived quite rich branches, such as West Coast Rap (West Coast Rap), Southern Rap Rap (Southern Rap), Pop Rap (Pop Rap), etc., what we call HIP-HOP is a new vocabulary born from the synthesis of today's popular elements from these genres.
Although some people thought as early as the early 1990s that this kind of music, full of swear words and rebellious words, would soon disappear. In fact, in the late 1990s, with a group of new artists, With the popularity of rap musicians and predominantly white rap rock, music that was once abandoned by black people has returned to the forefront of popular music. At least in the new century, this trend will not subside.