Would you consider rap/hip hop the new pop?

There have been a few questions about hip pop? What is real hip hop, what rappers are considered hip pop and who's not? Imo hip hop culture as a whole is the new POP? POP is what it is...meaning POPULAR...(For example I consider JayZ's a pop artist and a lot more of ur respected rappers are)... But face it HIP HOP is every where. It may not be in the fashion that we would like to see it... BUT its a billion dollar industry...Its influence is world wide...Look at ur TV and listen to the commericals on the radio...HIP HOP CULTURE is selling everything...Whether its Flo rida or Talib Kweli(as a more respectable) is being played on not only the so called HIP HOP R%26amp;B stations but also on the HITS stations too. Even the slang is showing up in the dictionary...smh but lmao at the same time.





Face it rappers are even more wealthier/and business savvy then your average ROCK star.





Thats my opinion but what do yall think

Would you consider rap/hip hop the new pop?
You are right.





Pop means popular . Any music that appears in the chart technically is pop music.








It does not quite sound right to say that it is pop but it is.





pop is not a category of music though, it just means that the music is popular . therefore pop music generally belongs to a genre and so hip hop is still hip hop but it just happens to be popular at the moment.





If there is any doubt that it is popular , check out the youtube top videos of all time , many are hip hop.
Reply:so ignore them. listen to artists who keep it real.
Reply:The game got twisted when the south came up. Down south strip clubs are more prevelant and music makers made music for the club. The focus was on beats and bass rather than lyrics. So now you got strip club rappers with terrible lyrics and dope booty shaking beats going platinum. The result is an overall moral breakdown in how young folks view women. These rappers are rapping about strippers but the publics sees it as a blanket statement for all women.





Hip-Hop as a culture was originally a way to express what was going on in the places that had no voice. Like Jazz and blues did in it's hay day. Now money, and greed have taken that away.





Talib is hip hop, DJ Unc is a talent less strip club rapper. Common is hip hop, Lil John is a booty beat maker. That's a whole different class I don't consider hip hop.
Reply:Well, No.


i consider rap/hip hop ..well. rap%26amp; hiphop. haha





Its a different time period ..so therefore different music is popular.


when pop was popular, was it the new rock?


When rock was popular, was it the new jazz?


No.
Reply:Yes its so obvious that these hip-hop, rappers are trying to go pop!


example Mary J. Blige has been known as the "Queen of hIP-Hop Soul" but when she came out with hust fine it was to target a mainstream audience. all rappers are pop because of there lyrical content except Jay because he a real as ****a.


but say what you want and I agree with you to a certain level.
Reply:all pop is is whats popular at this time. its not a certain type of music its just what ever most people are listening to.
Reply:i go oldskool hiphop
Reply:well..I still stand by my "no hip pop" phrase, but I'm not really that sure what it means anyway..lol
Reply:i guess it's popular everywhere, but i still wouldn't refer to the music as pop...and i wouldn't consider artists such as florida, soulja boy, UNk etc. as rappers...juss pop artists





and what in the hell?...new avatar???....you askin a question???





what is this???
Reply:no i consider pop the new disco....itll die out in ....3.......2.......1.......
Reply:I agree with Shelltoe....It's what's most popular. And I do not think rappers are more wealthier than rockers...Rockers just don't spend it all on "bling" to show it off. SP
Reply:You know even back in the start Hip Hop had an element of Pop and to be honest some Pop music moreso through the 80's was actually Good Music. Unfortunately in the 90's and now in the 2000's it has lost its appeal to me but at the same time so had Commercial Hip Hop and other Music. I think as we get older our tastes diversify. We find the niches in Music that appeal to our senses. I think you're right that Rap/Hip Hop is the new pop as you see people like Justin Timberlake %26amp; Britney Spears incorporating it into the feel of their Music.


It was probably towards the late 90's that I noticed that most of the Top 10 consisted of Hip Hop/RnB tracks something that was unheard of in the 80's and when I was in school it was rare to be the Hip Hop fan in your class nowadays it's rarer to be the Rock fan.
Reply:no





but the average rock star is more talented than the best rapper