Re: WAY Off-topic: the difference

Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:09:14 GMT
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Upon receiving news that Bob Champ had made the remarks below, and after
consultations with my Joint Chiefs of Staff, being briefed by members of my
Cabinet and telephone conversations with various world leaders, I have come
to the following conclusions:
> Can anyone tell me the difference between rap and hip hop?
>
> Bob Champ
From "Ask Yahoo":
Historically, rap music comes from hip-hop culture. The roots of rap music
trace back to the Jamaican ska era of the mid-60s. MCs rapping over party
music made its way to New York a decade later, thanks to DJ Kool Herc, a man
many crown the "Father of Hip Hop." Kool Herc emigrated from Jamaica to New
York in 1967 and helped give birth to the hip-hop culture that would
continue to thrive and spread.
The Hip Hop Network notes that while the Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 "Rapper's
Delight" was the first breakthrough rap hit, it emerged from a "an
inner-city phenomenon centering on DJs and including equal proportions of
break dancing, MCing, and graffiti art."
More recently, "rap" has been used to describe the aggressive, mass-market
produced music of Nas or Eminem. But, as one online encyclopedia points out,
"Not all music that has rapping in it, however, is actually rap music, and
not all hip-hop music has rapping in it." Artists like Jurassic 5 and De La
Soul typify hip-hop music, which is generally more multi-instrumented and
less in-your-face.
Rap and hip-hop music is now a huge industry, and it has the diversity of a
huge industry. There's Christian rap, Latin rap, southern rap. Check out the
Rap and Hip-Hop category in the Yahoo! Directory for more resources,
including Davy D's Hip Hop Corner.
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