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What defines hip hop music?
Hip-Hop music is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music originally created by DJs isolating the percussion breaks of popular songs, sometimes with two turntables to extend the breaks. ... Hip-Hop music commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.
What's the difference between rap and hip hop?
“What's the difference between rap and hip-hop?” ... The standard answer is that hip-hop is a culture with four elements* – deejaying, MCing, graffiti, and dance – and rap is a form of popular music that grew out of Hip-Hop culture. In this view, hip-hop is deep and cultural. Rap is superficial and commercial.
Why hip hop is not music?
Because the music is repetitive and generally lacks melody, it is defined as "boring" which is a music theory term. Instead of being music, he defines it as "urban poetry". Certainly rap can be poetry, but its poetry over music.
