I recently discovered rap music and I'm so intrigued by it! Do you listen to rap music?
Of course, I like it because it is is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular
It seems very similar to hip-hop to me. Are the two styles related?
The little stuff that made a rap include content" (what is being said), "flow" (rhythm, rhyme), and "delivery" (cadence, tone)
Oh! I learned something today! Has rap music been around for a long time? 
If you have noticed, rap and  spoken-word poetry are not same for spoken. Rap is usually performed in time to an instrumental track.
I can see the difference now! Which rap artist can you recommend for me?
Tupac is timeless bro. The earliest precursor to the modern rap is the West African griot tradition