Hip Hop is a more encompassing music genre with roots going back to Be Bop and Jitterbug. While Rap is more, reading poetry with a heavy rhythmic percussion backup.Your all-encompassing definition of hip-hop, is not hip-hop,
Great tune and pure R&B.One of my most cherished songs is Sam Cooke featuring Lou Rawls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAQE-tHjPAc
I consider that Rap and not Hip Hop at all.This is hip-hop and this song is fucking hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIx_L757_A
There is a difference between the two.