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A genre of music where poetry is delivered verbally in tune with a beat, sometimes music, that includes many other techniques such as wordplay, repetition, paradoxes, onomatopoeia's, metaphors and many other figurative languages.
Rap tends to not follow the rules of many other genres of music. It sometimes doesn't have a chorus or a hook like other genres of music do and it's one of the only genres where vocals (such as singing) aren't really used.
It's also a genre that is disliked by many (mostly non-African Americans) for many reasons. Many say it's stupid and only talk about money, bitches, ho's, cars and etc. But that's mainly because the majority of the population tends to listen to mainstream music and don't understand the truth behind record producers and the deals they put out regarding topics a certain individual must make a song about.
If you listen to many underground rappers, independent rappers or rappers that have deals that give them freedom to rap about what they want (i.e. Ice Cube, Tyler, the Creator, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, J. Cole, Tupac), you'll notice the change in their lyrics from many mainstream rappers (i.e. Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, OJ the juice man).
In my opinion rap is one of the most difficult forms of music genre to create the music for because of how much figurative language is actually used in the music, the continuous flow of words with long verses, and the many rhyme schemes it must follow, unlike many other genres.
Wordplay: "Put her in a 'lake, her' body sinks great,
Now it's time to 'fish her' like Derek" ~Tyler the Creator, Tron Cat
(Derek Fisher plays for the Laker's basketball team)
Metaphor: "Will I make if from student loans to a ben-zo
Like old folks pissing I guess it all depends" ~Kanye West, Late
(Depends is a brand of adult diapers)
Symbol: "Ay Salle, I know I ain't been answering your calls, but shit, let me explain-
It's because times been hard, been runnin around trynna find a job
I hear my phone ringing in the morning, 9 o'clock
And it's you, can't even front I press ignore..." ~J. Cole, Dollar and a Dream II
(Throughout this whole verse in this song, Salle actually symbolizes a form of college Loan that J. Cole took out for college. He makes it seem like it's a girl when it's really the bill collectors for the Sallie Mae loan he took out)
Paradox: Tyler, the Creator- "Green paper, gold teeth, and pregnant gold retrievers, all I want,
Fuck money, diamonds and bitches don't need 'em" - Yonkers,
"I'm not a rapper, nor a rapist or a racist,
I fuck bitches without permission and tend to hate shit" - Tron Cat.
(Green paper is often used as slang for money, gold teeth are grills which usually contain diamonds and a pregnant gold retriever is obviously a female dog, which is the true definition of a bitch.
Obviously Tyler is a rapper, fucking woman against their will is a rapist and hating things could mean hating a certain race, something racist do.)
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A Style Of Hip-Hop that is the most Extreme in all views
Give a rapper a Mic and backround music and he will rhyme for you.
Give a rapper A mic and silence and he will sound like a drugged up Moron.
Rap is nothing More than a phase that is slowly Dying out.
If the only way to reach your audience is to put women in bathing suits, and show off your cars, then you know your Genre is only temporary.
New Genres of music are debuting constantly, but they all come from the same basis of music. The only Instrument a Rapper is willing to Play is his pistol, which can be found in about 1/3 of All rap soungs ever.
Hey man you still like that Rap stuff?
-No, I guess people dont like it as much anymore, So I dont want to either.
Why did you even listen to it anyway then?
-I never really liked it, just everyone else did so I thought I should to.
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Rap is not crappp!!!! Crap is too good to be compared to it. Rapi is lazy ass black and some white(Eminem)guys, who don't do nothing and they just talk about their stupid, retarded gangs, and their stupid ugly neighboorhoods. And black people always complain how they are poor and it's not easy for them! That's bullshit. I know people that came to this country with just $20, and after 4 years, they have a house, a few cars,a nice life. So if your lazy asses went to school, finished it, there is a thing called a scholarship..you could all make a life for yourselves you piceses of shit, garbage.
Crap is too good to be compared to rap.
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Beats and rhymes. Since when did "music" need to justify itself with anything more than rhythm and originality? Leaving aside questions of "poetry," rap IS legitimate music since it is the creative composition of meaningful rhythms and sonic elements that convey emotional meaning - including humor - something many "listeners" seem to lack.
If you deny that rap is "music," then you need to examine your bias. What about other musical expressions that privilege rhythm and timbre over melody? What is your definition of "melody?" Are you listening honestly or through a socially constructed filter of "taste?"
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Rap is not music. Music requires 3 things:
1) Use of musical instruments
2) Rhythm
3) Beat
Rap does not have Rhythm, only beat and most often does not use any musical instruments, rather, uses sounds composed on a synthesiser. Hence, rap is not music, it is a form of poetry.
Rap Fan: Dude Mos Def is such a tallented musician!
Person: What genre does he do?
Rap Fan: Rap
Person: That's not music.
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A form of "music" characterized by nonexistent harmony, simplistic and repetitive rhythms, and base lyrics. Rap is possibly the worst genre of music in the Western world, though country music is a strong contender. It pales in comparison to the many, vastly superior genres out there, such as jazz, to say nothing of classical.
The composer sighed with resignation as he watched another customer buy a rap CD.
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A genre of music. That's all it is. People are against rap saying it has no meaning. People defend rap saying that that's only "gangster rap". HERE'S A HELPFUL HINT, YOU TARDS. PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE RAP DON'T LIKE RAP. PEOPLE WHO LIKE RAP LIKE RAP. NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET OVER IT.
Some rap fans and some rap haters are complete idiots for being so elitist about MUSIC.
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