Rap is simply a single element of hip hop music. Flava Flav of the group Public Enemy, hypothesizes that rap and hip hop are sometimes differentiated by time. "I think the element of hip-hop disappeared when rap music started to be created at a slow pace... It stayed there for years. Nowadays, a lot of rap music is created at a very slow pace. Not there's more of that 'wave your hands in the air like you don't care' - you know, something that makes you want to get out there and breakdancing... Rap ​​music has lost that element at the moment, mostly in America. There aren't many great hip-hop records out there, but there are some great rap records (“The difference between rap and hip-hop,”