[val-holla-ing]

there is no distinction between hip hop and rap. they're the same person at different stages during life.

if you want to make a distinction, that's fine, but the reality of it is that that so-called distinction is more marketing than anything else (but isn't that what rap is about now anyways?) and your "distinction" is more or less handed to you by record execs who know nothing about how rap started or got to how it is now.