First rapper

djchameleon · 01-10-2011, 10:52 PM

I actually agree with Conan on that....but hip hop can also refer to the culture as well..

you can't rap over anything and still call it hip hop...it's not....you are just rapping over some random...whatever the backing music is....is what you would consider the song with rap.....take for example nu-metal isn't considered hip hop is it? Some bands rap in nu-metal but it's not called hip hop because of the backing music.

**Janszoon** · 01-10-2011, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

I actually agree with Conan on that....but hip hop can also refer to the culture as well..

you can't rap over anything and still call it hip hop...it's not....you are just rapping over some random...whatever the backing music is....is what you would consider the song with rap.....take for example nu-metal isn't considered hip hop is it? Some bands rap in nu-metal but it's not called hip hop because of the backing music.

And yet Jay-Z records an album with a nu-metal band like Linkin Park and it's still considered hip hop, Madlib raps over jazz and it's hip hop, MC Dälek raps of droning noisescapes and it's hip hop, Immortal Technique raps over Henry Mancini and it's hip hop. So what exactly are the defining characteristics of hip hop music?