who else hates people who say rap isnt music?

Question

i hate when people say rap isnt music. cant they be more open minded i like all music from punk rock( such as casualties, global threat) to classical music.

if its so easy to be a rapper why dont u guys become rappers and make millions. by the way listen to bone thugs,nas, and ice cube thats real rapping not like 50 cent. also im mexican and rap isnt dead, its more popular than rock or it will be soon

by the way im 17

Answer 1

Of course, you have to ignore people.

Bottom line is, that hip-hop has lasted for over 30 years, because it's a geniune genre of music. Lauryn Hill won album of the year at the Grammy's so did Outkast. There are classes at universities on hip-hop. I went to performing arts school, and sung Handel's Messiah and in Italian(don't know what I was singing). Nothing grabs me like hip-hop. I probably have more musical training than most of the idiots who claim hip-hop isn't music, and I proudly tell the world that I'm hip-hop.

What people don't get about hip-hop is, that it's completely limitless. You can be a singer/rapper like Lauryn Hill, Andre 3000, and Mary J. Blige, or you can play an instrument like The Roots, or you can just be a slick lyricist. There is no limit. You can use any instrument to make a hip-hop track. I myself have used sitars and all kinds of stuff to make beats.

Other genres of music are limited to the format that came before it. Hip-hop can adapt, that's why it's been the biggest cultural phenomenon of the past 30 years.

Answer 2

Ok, here's the deal. Rap is music. you don't have to like it, but its music. And just like every genre of music, there are some that are very average, some that suck ... and a few that are truely talented.

the problem comes in determining whether they are musicians. most don't play an instrument or sing. So are they really "musicians" in the classic sense?
for the most part, they are more poets than musicians, and some of them, very good poets.
And of course, there are some that can play instruments.

A lot of the true creativity in rap music comes from using the recording studio as an instrument in and of itself.

I would love to see rap go through a rebirth where live musicians were used more, it would make it feel more "alive". Instead of sampling some cool riff somebody else came up with, come up with your own (on an actual instrument, not a computer or sequencer).
It already has a lot more melody in it than it did in the late 80s, early 90s. I'd love to see it get more inventive.

Unfortunately, the current state of the rap music industry is pretty sad. Just like the "hair metal" thing of 80s, where the first groups were innovative, then a bunch of copies.
right now, we're in the "bunch of copies" and oversaturation phase of the genre.

Answer 3

I can't honestly say that I am a big fan of Rap Music. I do respect it as an art and a music form, however my problem lies in the lyrical content. No one is going to better this world by rapping about killing cops, doing drugs, or just being a pimp. To be a productive and positive individual in society you must have better influences. True music does not force the hand of a person into committing crimes, but the lifestyle that it portrays does not help young impressionable members of society. People are influenced by individuals who hold positions of power, take for an example the landmark physcologcial experiments of the early 1960 where common people where placed in a room with a "doctor" and were told to ask people questions and deliver an electrical shock if they were wrong. Of course no one was shocked but 66% of people continued with the experiment even while delivering painful jolts of electricity. Moral of the story, don't always listen to everyone.

Answer 4

It is a genre of music and needs to be respected as art because that's what it is. Modern rap is too full of only wanting girls and money and going to clubs, so that turns most people who would otherwise like it away. I like some underground rap (as well as modern rock, classic rock, indie, whatever) and I can tell you that it's music and people are just stereotyping it.

Answer 5

I'm the same way. The only music I really don't like is hard core country. I like the softer country, like Shania Twain. Music is music, it's just different expressions. My mother used to tell me that rock music wasn't music, it was just a bunch of people screaming. But not all people take the time to listen , and just judge blindly.

Answer 6

i think the people who say music isnt rap really dont kno much about rap. they jus need 2 be skooled on it more. rap is jus a creative musical style that is used 2 express feelings, emotions and opinions about things. they might think that rappers only curse and have girls in they video. but not all rappers rap bout dat. some people lyk Pac (tupac) rap about inspirational, and influencial things lyk his song brenda had a baby and keep your head up. daz how i feel.

Answer 7

I hate it when people say that rap isn't music, and I don't even listen to rap. Rap is so music.

Answer 8

well i wouldn't say HATE its a very powerful word, but i mean everyone has their own opoion on things, but i think rap is music i just wish that they would have more things not just drugs or sex or call girls hoes sluts money killing they need more reason, i really like runaway by ludacris and maryj blidge i always loved her when i was young and now i let my baby listen to her all the time/

Answer 9

Real music isnt played all day 24/7 on the radio..Electronica is good music..Like Bjork.Tricky.Utada

Answer 10

Hey are you old enough to remember a song by The Late and great Mr. Jaames Brown called talking loud and saying nothing?