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Originally Posted by 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.
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I'd make a distinction between the two. Like you said, different eras, or "stages during life" as you put it. I see rap as being more of the sound that was around in the 80s, early 90s etc, and hip-hop to be more of the sound after that, to current day.
Although, I'd call, say, Arrested Development hip-hop, and Public Enemy rap. Both the same time period. Most stuff sounds more in line with the former these days.
Neither wrong nor right.