Do you consider Rap to be music? why or why not?

Answer 1

Rap may well be ART but it is NOT, emphatically not, MUSIC.

Music has a melodic line to it that is memorable. The definition of composing music is seven distinct notes (of melody).

Rap has this boom-chaka backbeat and a rhyme scheme with no discernable melody. Nobody hums or whistles it --nobody.

The best rapper is the one who makes the best videos, Eminem, and what's good about those videos? CHOREOGRAPHY for his dancing to the boom-chaka.

So it's a souped up ceremonial drumming ceremony! Accidentally including the Bardic initiation rites of Druidism (answering extemporaneous questions in rhyme).

Yeah, that's ART but it isn't MUSIC. You know what music really is? There are nine muses, Greek spirits who inspire us with artistic ideas. They flutter around us and talk to each other. We don't understand their LANGUAGE, instead, we HEAR music, the language of the Muses. Muse + ic. It's defined by a melody of seven or more UNIQUE notes.

Rap is ceremonial chanting and dancing -- and that's a different art form. It's also why it hasn't dethroned rock.

Answer 2

Rap is talking to a beat, singing is staying on tune, both have music as guide. Different strokes-for-different folks. I personally don't care for Rap because of its origin. (street gangs, drugs,etc.). Even country has its rappers. Most Rappers can't carry a tune, most singers that can carry a tune-can also Rap.

Answer 3

easily, they are idiots. song is song. what's next? Bach and Beethoven isn't song because of the fact there is no singing? Come on human beings. for hundreds of years song did no longer have vocals in any respect. So why could the undeniable fact that somebody is conversing or singing or screaming or growling make a distinction in what's song and what isn't. song is approximately beats, melodies, chords, and notes. it is not approximately singing or rapping. And rap is in actuality an artform. isn't poetry paintings? that's what rap is. it is poetry set to a beat and song..

Answer 4

I cosider some rap to be music. A lot of it that people don't hear talks about personal struggles, how they're raised, how they changed and came up, etc. But all of the dancing music is so popular that that's all you hear now...

Answer 5

Yea I consider it music thats the main music i like and why wouldnt it be considered music you trying to be sarcastic or sumthin cause you aint doin a very good job at it

Answer 6

Yeah dude. Rap is music. Reggae is music. Rock is music. If it makes you bop your head, tap your feet, or sing along....it music. music is a state of mind, not a genre.

Answer 7

sure... there are a lot f great rap artists... there is also a lot of crap rappers out there.... but rap has a long history and is certainly a valid form of music

Answer 8

Rap is music... you have to appreicate all types of expression to really understand the human conditon...Word.

Answer 9

question ... what do rockstars like Limp Bisket and Kidd Rock do?
Is that considered music? To answer your question - yes it is music - it is art.

Answer 10

I think it should be so every culture can have their own type of music