What is the difference between hip-hop and rap?

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What is the difference between hip-hop and rap?

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Old dickhead backpacker from the 90s here.

HipHop is the culture. Break dancing, graffiti, rapping, djing, beatboxing, fashion, knowledge of self etc all make parts of the culture. It has its own shiboleths, style and gatekeepers. Rap is just one aspect of Hip Hop.

It’s like being a metal head or punk rocker. You can listen to metal, but that doesn’t make you a metal head.