damn! their lyrical flow is off the charts! I hadn’t heard this one before. Not that I’m a hip hop expert or anything but I do like a lot of stuff, especially the old-school sound which this seems part of. I’ll have to go back and check what year this was released. I’d say this is hip hop, not rap, but maybe it’s just
semantics. Though this sort of extended flow over a beat is definitely a hip hop trait. Thanks for sharing!
One definition, I think from Ice-T, is that hip-hop is a broader culture and phenomenon, and rap is just one (important) part of it. Another said that hip-hop tends to be more of a collective and rap more about the individual. But that doesn’t seem right to me. I would say gangsta-rap is more rap and NWA was a collective. I think they get used interchangeably.
damn! their lyrical flow is off the charts! I hadn’t heard this one before. Not that I’m a hip hop expert or anything but I do like a lot of stuff, especially the old-school sound which this seems part of. I’ll have to go back and check what year this was released. I’d say this is hip hop, not rap, but maybe it’s just
semantics. Though this sort of extended flow over a beat is definitely a hip hop trait. Thanks for sharing!
I think it was 1999. It is so, so well done. The level of attention in both the lyrics and their performance is really impressive!
I'm curious to hear more about how you'd distinguish rap from hip hop.
One definition, I think from Ice-T, is that hip-hop is a broader culture and phenomenon, and rap is just one (important) part of it. Another said that hip-hop tends to be more of a collective and rap more about the individual. But that doesn’t seem right to me. I would say gangsta-rap is more rap and NWA was a collective. I think they get used interchangeably.
I'm glad you listened to the track and enjoyed it!
I also saw a bunch of articles that said all rap is hip hop, but hip hop is broader and would include, for example, break dancing.