R.I.P. Tupac Amaru Shakur

It’s inexplicable to me why the British are so much better at producing rock bands than us.

 

Stonehenge.

 

Copy edit question:

The Doors are the best American band . . .

The Doors is the best American band . . .

 

Used to struggle with that when writing about plays. Damn you and your socks and buskins, Aristophanes and Sophocles!

Getting back to the topic... Is hip hop just pop-ified rap? I'm thinking of fairly mainstrean material like Hamilton.

Also, is anyone else familiar with Buckshot LeFonque? Is this hip hop or rap or...?

 

As that sentence begins and ends with a fallacy, I believe the question is moot

 

I've always treated hip-hop and rap synonymously. Is there a difference? If so, what is it? Do you have to go back to Kool Moe Dee or Public Enemy for it to be rap? Is later Public Enemy hip-hop? Where's the line of demarcation?

 

There is no of demarcation, it's rap, yo.

It was Yo! MTV Raps not Yo! MTV Hip Hop

 

I would say Hip Hop is a wider cultural thing encompassing music, dress, etc. Rap is a specific musical form that is a part of Hip Hop.

 

OK, so they're the same thing musically. Good.

 

Rap is something you do, hip-hop is something you live. KRS-ONE.

 

There is definitely different eras in hip-hop. You have the origins in the late 70s, the breakthrough in the 80s with Run DMC and Beastie Boys, the golden age in the early 90s and then the Bad Boy/ glam era in the late 90s. There was some ok stuff in the 2000s, but it’s gone really downhill since then (IMO).

 

Now what you hear is not a test: I'm rappin' to the beat

Rappin' not hip hoppin'.