Whoever classed Rap as music? It's just a rant with backing?

Question

If rappers class themselves as urban poets, why don't they write a book of poetry.
Then again, not many words rhyme with motherf****r.

Most songs can be classed as poetry set to music, whereby the words are sung with the melody.
Rap is hardly a "musical" song.

Answer 1

exactly, it seems most people like rap just for the lyrics, in which case there is no need for it to be in a musical form. I think we have eminem to blame for it becoming so famous and big.

Answer 2

I answer a question similar to your's evertime I go to Yahoo Answers. Rap is awful. I hate rap, or hip-hop as the kids call it these days. What happened to music that meant something. Like the music from the 60's and 70's. All rap music is to me is some idiot blabbing on a microphone while some "sampled" music is playing. They totally ruin good songs. They don't even attempt to play their own instruments. They just take a good song, and steal their sound. They have no talent what so ever. Hell, most of them can't even spell talent. Most of these (for lack of a better or more describing word)"artists" are rejects that couldn't make it in the real world, so they decided to go and see a rich, white, producer and sell their souls. They want to talk about gangstas, and sex, and mf this, and anything else that these dumbasses these days think are cool. I hope with a passion, that people will stop buying and requesting this crap so it will die just like 2 pac and Biggie and countless others living that gangsta life. Oh yeah, "Eazy-E" died of Aids. We need some positive role models for the kids these days. Not Scarface. Not Vice-City. None of this gangster crap. But that's another topic. Rap is horrible and not music. Try to find the original songs that they stole from. That was music.

Answer 3

i in my opinion have self assurance that it rather is somebody expressing themselves in a fashion that at the same time as i will no longer approve of is interior the US secure via loose speech. words are procedures. Like a hammer can build a house, wreck a thumb or crack a cranium. even though it rather is not the fault of the hammer. a similar with rap music, it rather is an paintings style. paintings has been used to motivate, polarize, incite and degrade. That being stated i in my opinion locate maximum rap music it sexist, racist, selfish and bigoted. It often preys on the dissatisfaction and frustrations that many sense against perceived injustice to learn a greenback. yet nevertheless most of the incentive for commercial interest is to learn a greenback. you like a ban on rap music? Then what's next interior the Bible there is swearing, violence, nudity and all forms of issues. in case you HATE some thing that's high quality yet do no longer make greater regulations that our 'honest' government will implement. i'm under the very own opinion that we would desire to end based on the government to babysit our teenagers and ourselves and say whats up i do unlike this so i'm unlikely to pay attention. instead of giving up further and extra of our freedoms to no longer be inconvienced.

Answer 4

Believe it or not, but Rap was invented by the ancient greeks. When Homer wrote the Ilyad and the Odessey he wrote them in a way that when performed, they sounded very much like modern rap. In those days there were no sophisticated drumming machines and stuff but the did have harps so they did make some music for their 'ranting'. Well, of course those lyrics were much more sophisticated and clever than modern day rap. But to answer your question, no it shouldn't be music but then I don't think many rapheads would listen to it. And these days this 'ranting' is just full of swearwords but some of them are really clever but the background noise makes it harder to listen to the words.

Answer 5

There are many different styles of rap and i feel music is all about personal opinion, some people may have something to say about what you listen to. Also some people can relate to what they are saying, Others hate it but it is one of the biggest selling genre's ever, meaning millions and millions of people disagree with you.
I believe there is good and bad music in every genre i bet some where out there is a rap song you could apreciate, I have no preference to genre just songs/tunes that i like!

Answer 6

I'm not really a fan of rap but you just got to accept music as it is. Some people like it, some people dont. Everyone has their own liking. But the rapping has to be good and not a bunch of words clamped together and so only the endings rhyme.

Answer 7

Of course it's music. There's a performance poetry element as well. All music that's genuine is good music, it's all self-expression.

Not to mention the fact that I'm guessing you don't actually know much about rap music based on that comment - mainstream rap music tends to be generic and sh%t, but same goes for every other genre too.

Answer 8

I couldn't agree with you more. Whoever classified rap or says it is music must have been hitting the crack pipe a little 2 hard. None of them are musically inclined at all. Most of them whine about how hard life is in their hood. Well if life is so hard then move somewhere else. The good majority of them are a bunch of goofy S.O.B's.

Answer 9

I have to like the beat first then i'll focus on the lyrical content, not really feeling the G unit thing and that type of rap... I like thought provoking lyrics...

My rap song of the moment is Lupe Fiasco "kick push" nice rhythm and you can understand his rapping and the story he's telling

Answer 10

SOME rap is music. The Beastie Boys album "Paul's Boutique" is definatley musical. I would also say that OutKast is musical as well.