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Quote by: Nemiroff  Rap in it's current form, and in any form is has previously existed, with maybe the exception of some underground rapper or group I have never heard of, isn't music. Its just talking to a beat. There is no singing, no change in the beat or progression of any kind! I want someone to show me what part of rap would qualify it as music.
And before everyone starts hating and calling me a racist, I'm not insulting rap, mearely trying to define it more accurately, its poetry, and whose to say which is the superior art. |
Lol... This is complete crap. There are changes in the beat, chord progressions, scales etc.
Besides, who are you to define what constitutes music? A simple drum beat is still music. You seem to have an elitest view of it.
Whether it's a good form of music is debatable, but alot of rap is extremely good. You, like all critics of the genre, have only been exposed to the mainstream crap. Would you say pop is a horrible genre because it's dominated by the likes of britney spears and justin timberlake? And yet, the beatles were pop.