Is rap considered music?

Rexx Shredd · 12-15-2014, 04:51 PM

Shroedinger's Rap

Oriphiel · 12-15-2014, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Blanche_Minim

I'm actually very nice.

From your conduct in this thread, no, you're not "nice". You intentionally get people riled up, and then completely ignore what they have to say.

And now i'm going to end this thread once and for all. Music is what happens when a noise evokes a feeling in an observer. If I hear a needle fall to the ground, and it makes me feel something, it is music. Therefore, all sound has the potential to become music, should it reach the ear of the proper listener. You claim that Rap makes you experience a feeling of disgust, correct? Well disgust is a perfectly valid feeling, and the fact that Rap evokes it is evidence that it does in fact affect you. Rap is a collection of sounds that makes certain people feel something, a phenomenon that you yourself have admitted to.

The people in this thread have already shown that by every existing definition of the term "Music", Rap is included. Even if you consider music to be limited simply to an "intentionally crafted" series of sounds, Rap fits. You claim that Rap Culture is destroying the youth of today, which is just as nonsensical as when people claimed that Rock 'n Roll was doing the same to earlier generations. By all reason and logic, you have been proven wrong, and yet you continue. The only possible motive you could have to remain is simply to bait people into arguing with you, which is known as "Trolling". Now if you'll excuse me, i'm going to go watch a cheesy horror movie.

DeadChannel · 12-15-2014, 06:33 PM

So, is someone gonna close this, then?

Josef K · 12-15-2014, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Krizz Kaliko.. he's kind of like the Cee Lo Green of hiphop. He's a choir boy from the south who hooked up with Tech N9ne. Starts at ~0:40.

Isn't Cee-Lo Green the Cee-Lo Green of hip hop? Soul Food is classic.

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Originally Posted by Blanche_Minim

I don't care about the content, whether the composer is an angel or a demon. For example, John Lennon composed the song "Imagine", the atheistic views of the song contradicts with my Judeo-Christian views, but I still like it because it has a nice melody. At least rock and roll has guitar solos and a skill in making licks and improvisation. Yeah this people dropped out of school, but they're more brilliant than rappers, who can barely play an instrument.

Have you heard of the saying "All talk with no action?", that's what rap is about.

I'm gonna assume you just mean Christian, because no Jew would ever identify as Judeo-Christian.

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Originally Posted by Necromancer

That's quite a self centered post and really nothing more than a bunch of gibberish.
Guap by Big Saun and My Nigga by YG are two examples of rap tunes I like personally.
Although I will suggest that a lot of music that some consider to be either Rap or Funk might be more in the middle as being Hip Hop.

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Originally Posted by Blanche_Minim

Based on your avatar, did you watch the German Expressionist horror film Nosferatu?

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Originally Posted by Necromancer

That was Max Schreck. Not Bela Lugosi.

This is a pretty fun series of posts.

POMers Anonymous · 12-15-2014, 07:39 PM

The whole "rap/hip hop isn't music" thing really grinds my balls. Music is something that you can listen to, be sold, be performed, be recorded, and has some sort of planning in it (Beat, Harmony, what-not). Why do you think stuff like silent music exists? It is technically music. Rap music has a beat (Instrumentals), harmony (See Chorus of "Show Me" by Kid Ink ft. Chris Brown), it can be sold, listened to, performed, recorded, etc. Just because you don't like it does not mean it isn't music.

Key · 12-15-2014, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by POMers Anonymous

really grinds my balls.

I'm sorry but this phrase is hilarious.

DeadChannel · 12-15-2014, 10:47 PM

I might have to start using "grinds my balls"

Justthefacts · 12-15-2014, 11:23 PM

^me too. But seriously, what kinda stupid ****ing question is this?

Of course it's not.

DwnWthVwls · 12-16-2014, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Josef K

Isn't Cee-Lo Green the Cee-Lo Green of hip hop? Soul Food is classic.

Touche. He's changed so much since than I wasn't really thinking about it.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-16-2014, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Blanche_Minim

I would rather listen to Shakespeare, than rap.

that's cause you're a sonnet-loving f@ggot.

12-15-2014, 04:51 PM	#191 (permalink)
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12-15-2014, 07:39 PM	#195 (permalink)
POMers Anonymous Groupie Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: WEST SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE Posts: 8	The whole "rap/hip hop isn't music" thing really grinds my balls. Music is something that you can listen to, be sold, be performed, be recorded, and has some sort of planning in it (Beat, Harmony, what-not). Why do you think stuff like silent music exists? It is technically music. Rap music has a beat (Instrumentals), harmony (See Chorus of "Show Me" by Kid Ink ft. Chris Brown), it can be sold, listened to, performed, recorded, etc. Just because you don't like it does not mean it isn't music.

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