Hip Hop Vs. Rap
Jalaia Surles
Professor Wally Shaw
Music Appreciation
2 December 2016
Hip Hop vs Rap
When I think of Hip Hop, I think of mainly guys beatboxing. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines using your mouth and voice. Hip Hop artists such as Doug E. Fresh and Vanilla Ice used the beatboxing style of rhyming in a lot of music in the mid 80’s and early 90’s. Another thing that comes to mind is men walking around with boom boxes up close to their face rhyming to the music melodies being played. Hip Hop is described as a lifestyle that represents the way of living. On the other hand, when I think of Rap music, both male and female artists rhyming to beat in either a form of poetry or fast rhyming …show more content…
Rap is more of a constant flow of music. Today Rap is not only voiced over instrumentals. Freestyle rapping is a type of rapping in which lyrics are recited with no structure or subject, basically whatever comes to the artist mind is verbally rhymed with no instrumental. We also have Gospel Rap/Hip Hop in which Christians used different melodies outside of the traditional gospel music to express their love for God. A lot of people criticize Gospel Rap/Hip Hop since Rap/Hip Hop was known to represent a lot of things that were not of Christian living such as: drug usage, murder, foul language, and sexual exploitation. With it made it hard for Christians to accept that style of music. In my opinion, if there is no verbal abuse in the lyrics then it shouldn’t matter what beat is being used if you are still expressing your love for God through music and appropriate lyrics. I have yet to hear to bashful gospel rap song. I enjoy listening to Gospel Rap and Hip Hop over regular Rap and Hip Hop. You get to listen to more melodized beats with gospel music oppose to the traditional instruments. It also gives you a break from listening to music that is all talking about the same
Professor Wally Shaw
Music Appreciation
2 December 2016
Hip Hop vs Rap
When I think of Hip Hop, I think of mainly guys beatboxing. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines using your mouth and voice. Hip Hop artists such as Doug E. Fresh and Vanilla Ice used the beatboxing style of rhyming in a lot of music in the mid 80’s and early 90’s. Another thing that comes to mind is men walking around with boom boxes up close to their face rhyming to the music melodies being played. Hip Hop is described as a lifestyle that represents the way of living. On the other hand, when I think of Rap music, both male and female artists rhyming to beat in either a form of poetry or fast rhyming …show more content…
Rap is more of a constant flow of music. Today Rap is not only voiced over instrumentals. Freestyle rapping is a type of rapping in which lyrics are recited with no structure or subject, basically whatever comes to the artist mind is verbally rhymed with no instrumental. We also have Gospel Rap/Hip Hop in which Christians used different melodies outside of the traditional gospel music to express their love for God. A lot of people criticize Gospel Rap/Hip Hop since Rap/Hip Hop was known to represent a lot of things that were not of Christian living such as: drug usage, murder, foul language, and sexual exploitation. With it made it hard for Christians to accept that style of music. In my opinion, if there is no verbal abuse in the lyrics then it shouldn’t matter what beat is being used if you are still expressing your love for God through music and appropriate lyrics. I have yet to hear to bashful gospel rap song. I enjoy listening to Gospel Rap and Hip Hop over regular Rap and Hip Hop. You get to listen to more melodized beats with gospel music oppose to the traditional instruments. It also gives you a break from listening to music that is all talking about the same