The kids I subbed for were doing a assignment gathering survey's. The majority of them were about music & sports
"Mr. Smith? Who's your favorite hip-hop/rap artist?"
"At the moment? it'll have to be Little Brother"
"Uhh...Who dem?"
I forgot who I was talking to. Kids dont listen to anything outside of radio and 106 & park. I didnt have time to explain and after looking at their list and have only to choose between Juvenile (ugh), Webbie (Hellz no!), Chingy(yuk), 50 Cent (help!) & D4L (that Laffy taffy is the most awful shit I eva heard!) I chose 50 since I cant stand most southern rap.
Now here's the part that confused me. One of the kids had a list that had respectively: Hip-hop, Rap, Rock, R&B.
I asked her whats the difference in her opinion what is the difference between hip-hop & rap.
"Rap is just hollering and cussing! and hip-hop is a mix of that with singing."
"I see, Give me an example."
"Okay, like D4L (the kids love this crap) That's Rap and B2K is hip-hop."
"But B2K Sings right? So wouldnt they be considered R&B?"
"No! because they have a rapper on the group."
Now there's some new education for ya. Doesnt matter if 4 out of 5 artist sings if one raps its Hip-hop. That new to meand all this time I considered them R&B. I had more other examples i could run through them but there wasnt time and since I was older they werent gonna hear me anyway. I just told her I chose Hip-hop & Rock. Of course she was surprised I chose Rock, an older black male listening to rock no way! I just told her i listen to alot of Linkin park and P.O.D. and that brought a smile to her face. Lawdy.