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Hip-hop and rap music might be perceived as the same. However, they are not. Actually rap is one kind of hip-hop music. Rap is the combination of lyrics and fast-paced music. Hip-hop, on the other hand is better described as culture, not just music.
They both were first ever used by Kool Herc, a Jamaican DJ who was inspired in the first place by West-African folk poets. This music movement started spreading all over the zone quickly.
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! !! Rap !! Hip hop
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| Origins || Rap as such originated in the U.S. Specifically speaking, it was born in the guetto areas of Midwest U.S, somewhere between the late 80s and early 90s. ||Hip-Hop is original from New York. It was in the early 80s in the Bronx where some minorities as Latins and Afro-Americans began shaping this new culture.
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| Music || Rap music is conformed of some sharp wordplay. It can also somehow be poetic. It uses rhyming stanzas and assonances. It is usually serious although its tone is versatile. || Hip-Hop music involves elements such as poetry wordplay with rhyming stanzas and assonances. Its tone is more banging. There can be slow tones, fast paced tones and everything in between.
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| Social topics || It talks about social matters such as drugs, sex, promiscuity, money, luxuries, politics and others.|| The social matters that Hip-Hop touches are pretty much the same as rap.
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| Features || Rhymes and poetry. A fast-paced music beat. As for dancing, there can be twerking, nae nae, yeet and others. || DJs, breakdance, specific fashion and slang. Also beatbox, graffiti and R&B. There is also breakdancing, which basically involves complicated dance routines.
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| Instruments or accessories used || Voice, microphone, turntable, drums, drum machine, bass. || Microphone, voice, bass and drums.
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| Popular examples || Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Eminem, Three 6 Mafia, Ludacris, Young Jeezy, Tupac, T.I, Lil Jon and others. || Kanye West, Mac Miller, Kid cudi, Snoop Dogg, Notorious Big, Jay-Z, Wiz Khalifa, Nicky Minaj and others.
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