The new hip-hop is now hip-pop with boogie, poppin', and many local styles, with dancers drawn from Chinese kung fu, reggae, lockstep, and even soul train steps from the 1970's. The new skool hip-hop is actually the old skool hip-hop, including hip-hop and breakin'.
It's actually a dance style that emphasizes the movement of the body, and it's very spontaneous and natural. Some people may disparage the new hip-hop by saying, "It's what everybody does!" -- and maybe that's why POP is so important. --Maybe that's what the word pop means.
Because the new hip-hop seems so much simpler and more casual than the more technical steps of the old school, but the new hip-hop is all about capturing the feeling, not just making the moves, but matching the music to the music and making it more danceable!
Hip-Hop translates as hip-hop and RAP translates as rap, which are different concepts. Hip-Hop is actually not a musical term but a cultural term that includes four parts: rap, graffiti, street dance, and DJ beatboxing; RAP originated in the '60s, and Hip-Hop as a musical understanding originated in the '70s. -Hop, on the other hand, originated in the early '70s, and its predecessor was RAP (sometimes with a little R(B).
Hip-Hop literally means Hip is Hip and Hop is hopping on one foot, which together add up to a light twisting and swinging of the hips, and originally referred to street dance in its infancy stage (what we used to call breakdancing), before it evolved into a huge concept - what we Hip-hop culture now includes baggy clothes, heavy gold jewelry, and the habit of saying "YoYo? what's up?" -In short, it's about the way black people live in America's ghetto neighborhoods and the way they look.