Why don't people acknowledge R&B as a part of Hip Hop?

[ogacihC]

I was under the impression that Hip Hop was the umbrella for R&B, rap, beat boxin, dj'ing, breakdancing, grafitti etc.

Dammit whadafuxup

[Zayus]

Why should it be? I don't like it when stores put Hip-Hop and R&B in the same section - they're both viable music genre's that deserve their own sections, just like rock, jazz and classical music.

[dat boy rh]

hip hop and r & b are different in two ways :

they don' t swear as much.
and r & b calms people down more.

[entrapta310]

I was under the impression that Hip Hop was the umbrella for R&B, rap, beat boxin, dj'ing, breakdancing, grafitti etc.
Dammit whadafuxup

R&B has been around way longer than Hip Hop. It can't be the umbrella if Hip Hop came after it.

[Copper Scroll]

R&B is almost completely hip hop-influenced and -infused now. Hip hop's influence is so pervasive (in everything from production, to songwriting, to actual vocal delivery) that they have to come up with names for "r&b" that is not quite so hip hop influenced: like "neo-soul" and r&b that somehow gets lumped under "smooth jazz". "R&B" hasn't really been its own genre without outside help since the 60s.

[TheT Organization]

R & B preceded hip-hop by a vast number of years. R & B is not apart of hip-hop, considering hip-hop borowwed heavily from funk, disco, and reggae more so than R & B.

[Young Steff]

b/c it's lame and sissified

"yo son, i getz mad poosy while listenin to dat $hit ya heard dat?"

[Mr. Lightskin]

"yo son, i getz mad poosy while listenin to dat $hit ya heard dat?"

i thought i was the only one that thought that shyt was lame as hell and the fact that musiq soulchild is the corniest nicca alive