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Originally Posted by Severian
And louder, sorry my friend but rap and hip hop really aren't the same thing. It's more like a square is a rectangle is a square situation. Rap, as a genre, is basically just "hip-hop with vocals".
Hip-hop is obviously much more broad. Hip-hop includes instrumental music, beat, scratching production, or sometimes just a vibe. Frank Ocean is hip-hop, more or less, and he was in a rap-heavy collective, but is he "Rap"? No.
Anyway, really. Rectangles and squares.
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when Rhythm & Bullshit acts started being labeled as "Hip Hop" to try and keep their lame-ass love songs relevant and "edgy" that shit spelled the death of true rap music on radio. If your song does not have a sing-along chorus, or a standard verse, chorus-verse structure, it will very likely not be played on what acts as Hip Hop radio these days.
Hip Hop has always been a culture (beats, rhymes, breakin, B-Boys, tagging/graffitti, DJ's and MC's). It was, like all youth culture/counterculture, co-opted by those with the means and ways to make $$ off of selling it to those who had yet to experience it.
The same thing is happening with EDM right now. The sounds have been co-opted by mainstream "artists" and are no longer seen as groundbreaking.
Can't wait to see what is next.