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¿Question #5468?
puffinge: What is the difference between hiphop and rap? Please, I really need to understand this.

pricero1: Stick to rap, puffinge, you've got to sing and dance if you do hiphop.
watcher969: have no clue
Woelf: Hiphop is to rap what boy bands are to rock&roll.
Fairer Sex: hip hop uses music and dancing. Rap is just jumping around the stage and saying weird poetry
OmegaII: The origin.
senorcoo: Irrelevant.
Spirit of 70: There isn't one, to my knowledge.
Septic: Dunno
Narl: If I can dance to it, I really don't care.
kathleenryan: Hip hop is more dance music, and rap has more words and is serious.
Harkonnen13: Similar to diahrrea and a big brown turd.
Polgara: no idea
midnightfaerie: *laugh*
vandemonium: Hip hop is the culture and rap is the style of singing.
jjacjackson: Hiphop is typically referred to as more socially acceptable, while rap typically refers to the more mature content.
ckotchey: You dance to hiphop - to rap you only move your hands up and down with the thumb and pinky extended.
Knowbody: Rap - Montone and had and end. HipHop - Has a never ending beat and some melody.
TheKeck: I don't like either of them. Oh wait, that's what they have in common.
PsyJam: 'Rap' is the act of rhyming the lyrics to the track. 'HipHop' would be best described as a culture, which embraces arts like dance ("breakdancing"), music ("rap"), and fine arts ("grafitti").
DHEK: The singing styles are really different... can't you notice it? Rap sounds more like talking and usually talking faster, while hiphop is more in the melody. Just look out for those and you'll be able to see the difference.
elirlandes: No difference.
Eric Haas: Don't bother.
scriptorum: HipHop is a style of DJ-mixed music that may or may not contain rapping. Rap music always contains rapping, but may be set to a number of musical styles (including hip hop). Hmm, I don't think that's any clearer from where I started.
aleo09: not sure
Mr_Six: Bing
waderam: Three bytes? Next question.
KDSN: hip hop is musical, rap is missing a c
Numskull: Neither of them qualifies as music, but "hiphop" has twice as many syllables.
szilaj: Every rap is hiphop but not every hiphop is rap. Rap is a kind of music, hiphop is a kind of culture and art.
vampywife: hiphop, i think, is music where you can typically understand at least most of the words without struggling, and it sounds like singing instead of speaking.
Cromaa: No difference...they both suck.
puffinge: I think hiphop has more melody, and, therefore, I like it much more than I like rap. Am I anywhere close to correct on this?
brainrob: Don't know - don't care
redhuntingcap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop
Loquutus: Hip Hop is more focused on the beat, and rap is more lyrical. It is a very fuzzy line.
Jim_P: Nothing
Beowulf: More melody? Less angst? Lite beer commercial?
bigbadsteve: that makes two of us
MisterCranky: I can rap you in the mouth. I can hiphop on your unconscious body afterward. That's pretty much it.
heli: roughly, hiphop tends to encompass the whole culture while rap is more about about the music
chaddyboy_2000: I'm not sure, even though I listen to it all the time.
jttm: Hiphop = dance music. Rap = guys talking really fast.
Dave: Cortexbomb had it mostly right, except replace "hiphop" with "rap" and vice-versa.
CortexBomb: I'm far from an expert, but my understanding was that hiphop was the lighter, radio friendly unit shifter type stuff and that rap is the more typically underground, harder edged sound. But I'm probably miles off
CDRodeffer: Hiphop can have melodious singing and is usually danceable, whereas rap is talking only and doesn't necessarily have to be danceable. Or at least, that's my take on it.
Lord_Prussian: It's subtle
skelebone: Rap is a style of lyric - usually fast, rhyming, and rarely melodic, whereas hiphop is more a broader sense of music.