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Originally Posted by Charlatan
As for the rap question, are we talking about hip hop or the actual act of rapping? If you are just talking about the act of rapping, what's the point of looking at it isolation?
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For the purposes of the OP, we should be talking about the "musical" accompaniment to rap, as opposed to "rap music," the tracks we spin when we want to roll with our hommies. Kinda like when
aberkok and I roll up and down Yonge St., lookin' for some play.
But, seriously,
Shauk's complaint is what we hear in the background, not the rapping per se. I think the problem here, is that we are pulling apart the whole to reveal how "sucky" rap's "musical" accompaniment really is. True enough, it isn't something to compare to other genres, but that's not the point. Rap music (the whole) is concerned with lyrics and their delivery. It would be like criticizing electronica for not being capable of existing in an entirely acoustic context...and using that to deny its status as music. What would be the point?