Creating smart playlist question

Hi,
This seems like it'd be very simple but for some reason I'm having problems creating the smart playlist I want to create. I have a lot of hip-hop instrumentals and I want to create a smart playlist that filters them out and displays only hip-hop tracks that aren't instrumentals. All the hip-hop tracks I have are labeled as either "hip-hop" or "rap" (or some combination of the two) in the genre field and if they're an instrumental then they have "instrumental" in the name field, i.e., "Stressed Out (Instrumental)." What I've done so far is to try and create a smart playlist with the following three criteria:
-Genre contains "Hip"
-Genre contains "Rap"
-Name doesn't contain "instrumental"
If I choose "Match all of the following rules" then I only get 117 songs (I have way more hip-hop/rap tracks that aren't instrumentals than this) but if I choose "Match any of the following rules" then I get a list without instrumentals but it includes ALL the genres I have. I have 2674 total hip-hop/rap tracks and I'm using iTunes 7.7. If anyone has any suggestions or help it'd be most appreciated!
Thanks,
Evan

You will need 2 playlists:
P1
-Genre contains "Hip"
-Genre contains "Rap"
-Match all
P2
-Playlist is P1
-Name doesn't contain "instrumental"
-Match all
P1 should have 2674 items. P2 will include all of them that are not instrumentals.

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