PsillyNilly said:

And I think rap is hip hop----But not all Hip Hop is rap.  (I could be wrong Delta, this isnt really my forte')....

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Yeah, that's what I said .  Rap is a subset of Hip Hop.  Anyone can be a rapper - athletes do it all the time; it takes an artist to be a Hip Hop MC.  Let's have a lyrical example:

A popular rap song:

Quote:

Now shorty, she in the club, she dancing for dollars
She got a thing for that Gucci, that Fendi, that Prada
That BCBG, Burberry, Dolce and Gabana
She feed them foolish fantasies, they pay her cause they wanna
I spit a little G man, and my game got her
A hour later, have that ass up in the Ramada
Them trick niggas in her ear saying they think about her
I got the bitch by the bar trying to get a drink up out her
She like my style, she like my smile, she like the way I talk
She from the country, think she like me cause I'm from New York
I ain't that nigga trying to holla cause I want some head
I'm that nigga trying to holla cause I want some bread
I could care less how she perform when she in the bed
Bitch hit that track, catch a date, and come and pay the kid
Look baby this is simple, you can't see
You fucking with me, you fucking with a P-I-M-P

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Quote:

(Soup, you plan on rocking something fierce) Oh, am I
Zaakir's the name, the A.K.A. super
The verbal acupunture from the dope old schooler
I used to be the brother for others that used to dumb on
Now they be the lovers of brothers that can't front on
Put me in the mix, LP 12-inch
SP, the elegant, poetic pestillence
I'm carbonated, the Fanti-confederated
Highly commemorated, and the most celebrated
For connecting it (Word!) Like verb subject to the predicate
Plus I got the etiquette
To keep it moving, and showing cats how it's done
Cause it's the verbal combat, position number one

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50 Cent needs to open a dictionary, expand his vocabulary .  Hip Hop lyrics are about word play.  Your words are your guns and you don't need anything else.