music! music!

i listened to the white stripes' songs from tani today. whoho, i quite like their songs!

so, to what genre does the white stripes' music fall into? i'm guessing, some kind of rock?

i've figured out that i dont like hip hop and probably r&b, but cant really tell the difference between hip hop and r&b. i remembered someone (was it margie? tani? someone else?) said that if you have difficulties telling the difference, hip hop is mainly sung by bling-bling-guys and r&b by girls. aside from those two, i think i can to any kind of music. anyway, is there any real difference between the two?