Reply #82: Oh please [View All]

Rap is a kind of music, and it takes a good deal of musical skill to create a good rap song.

The irony here is that you display your outright class bias in the process. One of the main reasons rap started without instruments is because its practitioners didn't have access to them and the inner city schools cut off music programs. So people invented their own form of music. For most, that's a remarkable accomplishment. For you, it's not really music. But don't worry, you're in a long tradition of racist bullshit, like the 19th century douchebags who thought African drumming was not musical because it wasn't Mozart.

You take one cultural form of music and universalize it, supposedly invalidating any other cultural forms. It's like saying breakdancing isn't really dancing because someone who does it may not know the Foxtrot or the fucking Mashed Potato. That's racism on its face, however many "black friends" you may claim to have. Your criteria are bullshit, pure and simple.

This is even besides the fact that rap producers and many rap artists have very keen musical talents even within those bullshit criteria, which is another story altogether. But let's see if one of your vaunted musicians can get up anhd make his or her voice into an instrument over a beat, rhyming in a packed club, freestyle. Nope, no musical talent there. :eyes: