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Do you agree with this?: "Rap" is nothing more than bad poetry with no music.

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Posted - November 6, 2016

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  • 19942
    Yes, I agree.
      November 6, 2016 7:48 AM MST
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  •   November 6, 2016 7:51 AM MST
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  • 17364
    pretty much
      November 6, 2016 1:23 PM MST
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  • 2515
    I just answered this question and the answer disappeared when I posted it! Rats! 
      November 6, 2016 2:24 PM MST
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  • 2515
    I am going to try to answer this question again. It disappeared, and the answer was long. 
      November 7, 2016 5:54 AM MST
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  • I do not agree. 
      November 6, 2016 11:43 PM MST
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  • 326
    don't agree.
      November 7, 2016 4:48 AM MST
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  • 17261
    No. There will be unintelligent rap/poetry as their will be intelligent, just like their is within other genres of music. 
      November 7, 2016 5:36 AM MST
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  • 2515
    1. Of course not!
    2. First of all, music is an art. Art is objective and subjective.
    3. Different cultures have their own definitions what constitutes music.
    4. Most cultures agree that music is organized sound. They also have elements of sound but don't all agree how many to have. 
    5. So is rap music? Yes, It has roots in African cultures, where the voice is used with few pitches, not really resembling melody, but more like speech in rhythm with accompaning percussion instruments. They were story tellers who used music as a means of communication. If you have heard about "talking drums", those were used to send messages from village to village.
    6. So rap has history.
    7. Rap is also a sub genre of hip hop, which has more melody than rap. Rap is speech music.
    8. You say speech can't be music? Well, the Germans inventing the use of "speech music", called "sprechstimme" in opera in the 1920s. Berg used it in his opera "Wozzeck". It is related the form "recitative". 
    9. Does poetry need to rhyme? No, but rap rhyme usually does. 
    10. So does art have to be beautiful and nice? No, not necessarily. Why? It has different purposes. 

      November 7, 2016 7:50 AM MST
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  • 44177
    I love these contraversial questions. I DO like Hip-Hop.
      November 7, 2016 7:54 AM MST
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  • 2515
    @Element, and who doesn't like the #1 rapper---Eminem? 
      November 7, 2016 8:38 AM MST
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  • 3907
    Hello Chief:

    Nahh...  I LOVE rap.  I rap in Jewish.  What rhymes with shpilkas?  I also do a little breaking..

    excon
      November 7, 2016 7:55 AM MST
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  • Matisyahu is pretty bad-ass. 
      November 7, 2016 7:57 AM MST
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  • The Digable Planets had amazing poetry with great music.  I don't care for most rap, but they did it well.
      November 7, 2016 7:56 AM MST
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  • rap was invented so talent-less people can afford a hummer  . 
      November 7, 2016 8:03 AM MST
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  • 46117
    Who cares since it is  no longer the next big thing.  It is on its way out the door.
      November 7, 2016 8:09 AM MST
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  • 326
    yep,like rock n' roll.
      November 9, 2016 4:00 AM MST
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  • 152
    Rap is a form of chanting by illiterates to listening illiterates. It is thumbed down nonsense which caters to drones incapable of thinking. It is part of a pop culture that has destroyed many minds. It has a propensity to use crude, foul and vulgar language. It is the natural devolution of a culture, country, and world. It reflects society as a whole.    
      November 7, 2016 4:01 PM MST
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  • 46117
    First of all this is NOT even remotely accurate.  You heard a few loud songs with crumb bums yelling nonsense and this is your opinion now.

    There are many brilliant poets who rap.  There is as many ways TO rap as there are ways to make poetry.  So, sorry.  I can see why you want to put your hands over your ears, but that gives rap a bad rap.




    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at November 20, 2016 5:37 AM MST
      November 7, 2016 4:07 PM MST
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  • Bez

    2148
    Rap is crap.
      November 7, 2016 4:19 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Perhaps you'd prefer this really fascinating rally then.

      November 7, 2016 4:22 PM MST
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  • 2148
    Not bad, but it took too long to get to the song. It would have been better if all that time-wasting waffle at the beginning was cut out. Now, let's have some proper music from the good ol' USA:
    This post was edited by Bez at November 7, 2016 4:43 PM MST
      November 7, 2016 4:42 PM MST
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  • 3934
    Rap, like every other human creation, is subject to Sturgeon's Law: 90% of it is crap.

    But the part which manages to dodge Sturgeon's Law can be quite entertaining...;-D...



      November 7, 2016 5:10 PM MST
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  • Try watching Rap Deconstructed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWveXdj6oZU

    It takes a bit of patience getting through the early bits that prepare the ground of understanding -
    but by the end I challenge anyone to deny that the best rap poets are good poets by any standard.
    I'm not of the same culture so I find the language tricky, and some of the ideas jolt me, but its good, very good.
      November 8, 2016 3:28 AM MST
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