Are Rappers / Producers really musicians or artists ???

Question

Personally i think if you don't sing you aren't a singer, and rapping isn't anything but spoken word or poetry over a beat...so does this make them musicians ? What makes them a musician....if I go to karaoke and sound like garbage, that doesn't make me a musician...although if i was just talking it would make me a rapper....

As far as the producers go...they rarely actually play instruments, and most of what they do is done either on pro-tools or with a sampling machine and a 4 track...so are they musicians or just low end computer programmers.

Answer 1

Well in my opinion. nowadays if you have a comouter with recording capabilities on it, your a producer. Not many years back, a "producer" had to know how to read, write, and arrange music. Ask 10 producers today to do that, and they look at you weird. To me, a producer is an artist. He takes an idea, and sculps it into something beautiful. Something that makes sense. But to get back to the point, rappers are artists. It is a musical skill to do what they do.

LF- producer/engineer/musician from NYC

Answer 2

There is a difference between a singer and a musician.

Rappers are pretty much producers, but again, there's a difference between "low end computer programmers" and people who use Pro-Tools, 4 track, sampling and drum machines.

If you go to karaoke and talked, you'll still won't be a musician or rapper. You'll sound even worse at karaoking.

Answer 3

a million) Are rappers musicians? confident 2) Are DJs musicians? confident 3) Are manufacturers musicians? confident 4) in case you replied confident to any of the previous questions, who's the suitable musician ever in hip hop? DJ maximum suitable 5) who's the suitable musician ever (any style)? i can't say that 6) Do you think of a hip hop artists may be on the comparable point musically as a musician that performs a greater classic tool? as an occasion, can DJ maximum suitable be considered as equivalent to John Coltrane or Jimi Hendrix? as much as i admire primo the unique artists made that ish from scratch so i does not placed him equivalent 7) could I basically close the f*** up and flow away it on my own because of the fact it somewhat is too perplexing to learn artists from diverse genres? No, it somewhat is sturdy communicate

Answer 4

A rapper is a musician as far as they produce music, rap is a lot of talking, but there is a beat to it. So rappers are musicians to me and producers are musicians too, because they are producing music not matter how they do it.

Answer 5

They Just Mispelled It. There Should Be A Big "C" Before RAP.

Answer 6

They are artists, pets and tech wizards for sure.

Without melody, they aren't making music. Scientific fact.