I actually mostly agree with this statement. You shouldn't have withdrawn it. A partial understanding is enough with me, as long as the folks can feel the tone and message of the song and get a mutual vibe from it.megaman917 wrote: If you don't have any understanding of hip-hop or hip-hop culture, then you have no business making a rap AMV.
You totally took that statement wrong. You mistook hip-hop for rap. There's a big difference between the two.bum wrote:Translate: If your not a black guy from the ghetto you have no business making rap amv's. Oh and if your not fucking depresed alot you shouldnt be making rock amv's. Dont eat with a sliver knife and fork on fine china? forget about clasical/operatic amv's. Are you an oraku? I thought not. Stop making amv's alltogeather NOW.
To make it simple
Rap = the action, a music style, a music format and medium that consists of an emcee and a dj.
Hip-hop = the lifestyle, the culture. And I don't mean the hard gangsta, street roamin', hustlin', pimpin lifestyle that's be overblown and overhyped by the media.
Hip-hop is expressed by the way one talks, the walks, the dancing and break dancing, the graffiti art, and the style of music which includes rap as a main element along with DJing and turntablelism.
Hip-hop is not just exclusive to black folks and is perhaps the most diverse in ethnicity over any other contemporary culture as well. The most famous modern turntablists and DJs in the world today are of Latin, Asian, and Caucasian ethnicity. Of course the original old school DJ forefathers deserve much credit as well. Breakers out there are of various ethnicities as well.
