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12-17-2014 09:15 AM |
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Originally Posted by CoNtrivedNiHilism
(Post 1524620)
You're a damn idiot. Rap has melody. The problem is you, not Rap. I don't get how people like you, can possibly even comprehend what music is when you can sit there and say Rap isn't music, I mean, my mind is baffled, I am baffled. If anything, what you're displaying here is just a blind hatred or an dislike of a genre of music you don't understand. Like I stated before. I do not like Rap, never have, most of the time I am annoyed by it. But I'm not ignorant, like you seem to be. So I don't go around degrading the genre, all the while attempting to come off like you even know what you're talking about, because you don't. You're contradicting things you say left and right, or someone comes along and gets you thinking, and so you back peddle in an attempt to save face. Perhaps you don't care how you sound, or you're just so up in the clouds with an ego problem that you don't even comprehend how you're coming across to us.
Here. I'll give you a chance to prove me wrong, or convince me that Rap isn't music. Go ahead...
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What constitutes music? More specifically, and to the point, why is Rap considered music?
Firstly, I would like to provide why I think Rap isn’t music. It’s not convoluted; it’s pretty straight forward. When you are in a coffee house and there’s a guy on stage playing the bongos and another guy standing at the microphone reading poetry, is that considered music just because there are musical sounds accompanying it? No, of course not. So, at it’s best, my argument is that Rap is a crude, very crude, version of poetry. After all, the words, even if some of them are made-up, rhyme. And as a side note, yes, poetry should rhyme. If it doesn’t rhyme, it’s just story-telling.
So there it is. I just laid it all on the line right there. So someone could argue, if they wanted to, that Cake doesn’t make music, or at least, some of their songs aren’t music. For that matter, even Bloodhound Gang’s music shouldn’t be considered music since it’s simply talking accompanied by musical sounds. But still, I maintain that Rap is as much music as a chicken-fingers are actual fingers of chickens.
And as if calling Rap “music” wasn’t enough, they actually give out awards to Rappers. I heard last year they were going to have a new award to give out and it was going to be called “Most Incoherent, Vulgar, Mono-Toned, and Unoriginal Rambling Accompanied by a Video with Half-Naked Women Award”. The only problem was that they were having a hard time figuring out who to give the award to since it pretty much encompassed the entire field of Rap. |
