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popular music vs hip-hop

hip-hop vs popular music

popular music and hip-hop both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
popular music Yes No No No
hip-hop Yes No No No
As nouns, hip-hop is a hyponym of popular music; that is, hip-hop is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than popular music:
  • popular music: any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
  • hip-hop: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
popular music (noun) hip-hop (noun)
any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
Difference between popular music and hip-hop

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