Talk:List of hip hop musicians/Archive 1

message: Looks like someone put aaliyah back into the list. well. i know some people see her as a rapper, but hey, I never heard her rap. i really think she should only be featured in the R&B list. wathiik
:I really haven't listened to enough Aaliyah to have an opinion, but this is a list of hip hop musicians, not rappers. Tuf-Kat 22:31, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
::List of rappers redirects to list of hip hop musicians. Perhaps it shouldn't. Otherwise, perhaps there should be an article with a list of other genres' rappers. Tim Ivorson 09:10, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: List of rappers should redirect  to list of hip hop musicians. It's all just different terminology. And, no, Aaliyah was never a rapper, she was strictly an R&B singer. --b. Touch 00:45, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: R&B musicians

message: theres an article called list of rappers that overlaps a lot with this.  we should split it all into list of rappers] list of producers, list of dj's, etcetera.  makes more sense.--Urthogie 04:45, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. Later today I will remove the entries in this list of hip hop musicians which also exist in list of rappers. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:41, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wait a second, it seems that they are one and the same article, with list of rappers redirecting to list of hip hop musicians. So I guess there is nothing to do. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:48, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well this is because we had this massive article until now.  The split makes sense, as list of rappers has tons of incoming links, and the split is unapposed.--Urthogie 13:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I see. But then I can't help. I thought you had two different lists with overlaps, while it seems you have just one list. So I guess a human being and not a bot needs to think carefully which items go where. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:31, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I came up with a solution at your talk page.--Urthogie 19:51, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  split 

message: Thanks to the wonderful work of the mathbot, you can now sort through the redlinks at List of hip hop musicians/Redlinks!--Urthogie 10:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  redlinks 

message: I've recently read the talk pages for both lists and don't entirely understand how one differentiates between someone belonging on list of rappers vs. list of hip hop musicians. I am just wondering, what are the criteria that distinguish the two. Specifically - why, for example, why is Notorious B.I.G. or Daddy Yankee listed as hip hop, while, say,  Cassidy or  M.I.A is listed as a rapper? Why is Lil Bow Wow listed in hip hop and Bow Wow listed as a rapper? Why is k-os listed in both? (Sorry if this sounds accusatory, it isn't meant to be, I just noticed the two lists and didn't understand the differences between them.) Zafiroblue05 04:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a question I would like to ask also. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We are in the process of putting all the hip hop musicians into the appropriate category.  Until its done we'll have some guys in the wrong place.  Feel free to help with moving the rappers.--Urthogie 12:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rapper vs. hip hop musician