Rap...music?

'Hip-Hop' originated in Reggae or 'dub' reggae which was then brought over to New York, and the speaking verses became poetic and later became known as rap. At no time does the term 'hip-hop' figure. If you're gonna be real technical about it you should call it dub reggae.

well if were gonna be real technical about it then why dont we call Rock Jazz then, becuase thats where it got its origins from. The name of the genre dosent have to have anything to do with the where it originated or how it came about. because using your logic all music can just be called banging on a rock with a beat to it, as archaic as it is thats how music itself started.

This is all because people can't accept the fact that it's called hip hop, not rap, regardless of what's accepted.

It has nothing to do with origins.

-AC

i haven't read all the posts, but i dont see what's the difficulty in understanding all this.

Hip Hop = Genre
Rap = what you do

I'm going to end this debate once and for all: WHO CARES. That's not even what this thread is about. Some people need to get out more. Get a hobby or something. So what if somebody wants to call hip-hop rap. God forbid they do. God forbid they be "wrong".

Some people need to just admit it's fact to call hip hop, rap, instead of dancing around it for fear of agreeing with someone they don't wish to agree with.

No need to put "Wrong" in quotation marks, Doom. Just say the word, because it is what it is. Nobody here, including me, has a problem with anyone calling it "rap", it's an accepted term, just an incorrect one.

-AC

Yea but what's the need to point it out and argue about it so much? That wasn't the question being asked. What does it matter? What's the need for the hip-hop vs rap debate?

There's no need, there will always be a debate where people don't think they're wrong. There shouldn't be a debate here, but naturally...

Either way, it's no Biggie.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Rapping is what hip hop MCs do. It could be considered the act of rhyming to music in the particular style that is seen in hip hop.

It's not a genre, it's an act. A "rap" is what an MC performs in a song.

The genre is called hip hop.

-AC