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Rap Is Not Music
HEAR ME OUT BEFORE You Comment! Rap is basically just a bunch of people reciting a poem with music in the background!!!!! It's not even euphoric, so why do people listen to it in the first place?
 Larken  23 May 2008 21:12
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Rap is basically drum-beat with degrading lyrics added, and guys dressed in pants which resemble very closely a Rodeo Clown.
 
 sylverwyld  23 Oct 2008 19:00
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Two spoons knocking together is music for some people may not be to your ears but that the point if people are buying this stuff these guys will produce it me i think its a gendre rather than music
 
 kvgrim7  22 Jun 2008 10:55
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I agree with you. Some of the original hip hop acts like Public Enemy actually thought of what they were doing as a kind of anti-music.

If you're studying for an exam or something, and you can do it while listening to music, you may find that you can't do it while listening to rap, because the human voice speaking is much more jarring and obtrusive than the human voice singing, so it disrupts your concentration.

I think the phenomenon of poetry being read to music is potentially interesting and could perhaps be considered an art form in itself, one that could be further developed in more interesting ways. But it should be in a separate category from music.

I really wish rap would crawl away and die. It has produced a few things worth listening to, but not many. I once thought it was just a passing fad which would soon blow over, but that was quite a while ago.
 
 Hidell  24 May 2008 03:04
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Rap is basically people reciting their past experiences.
 
 waleo  23 May 2008 22:34
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Rap is not music at all! Its people who can't sing talking really fast to a beat. RAP: Retards Attempting Poetry (ha, ha)
 
 Maggie1  23 May 2008 22:27
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Over barring humdrum!!!! Def off my turntable...;-(
 
 keepmindok  24 Oct 2008 06:50
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All music genre's recite poems with musical instruments in the back ground. And by saying music in the back groung, you are prooving yourself wrong and making a huge contridiction.

But I do agree, Rap is generally horrible, and I personally don't care for it.
 
 verum  24 Oct 2008 06:45
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Rap is completely music, if your against rap your more than likely against african american music in general, since they started it, i call this yet another act if racism.
 
 n-stein8_  24 Oct 2008 06:40
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Rap: 'a bunch of people reciting a poem with music in the background'.
Debate: ‘Rap is not music’
………..but Larken I thought it was..? You said it is music with people adding poetry over it, but now you say it isn’t ..? I’m sensing a contradiction.

My view is: Music, in the most basic form, is either a combination or just singular creation of rhythms, harmonies and tones. Rap, like all other genres of music, includes all of these qualities and is therefore music…. End of story (or debate).
 
 dan  23 Jul 2008 19:56
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Although I don't listen to rap, its music. What do you think poetry is but words to songs. You can pluck one string to poetry and its music. You have a vague understanding of what music is. Just because you don't like the genre doesn't mean its not music.
 
 moreno  23 May 2008 22:21
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Rap does classify as music. I, however, only listen to rap music to which I can actually understand the words to, and also the songs that don’t keep the same beat and background music going throughout the whole song.
 
 Hizashi  23 May 2008 22:10
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Why do they listen in the first place?

I don't know, maybe because society teaches them that it's cool to be immoral, socially unethical and rudely disrespectful?

It still meets the definition of "music".
 
 momof3  23 May 2008 22:01
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One mans garbage is another mans treasure

i could argue that screamo is just a man screaming into a microphone but to other people its music to their ears

and really, its up to an individual what music is, it can be made of anything, even banging on trashcan lids in a tune
a dislike of something doesn't mean its not music

and no I'm not a fan of rap lol
 
 JackLC  23 May 2008 21:18
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