[QUOTE=The Great Uncle]Rap itself = ****y
The music/harmonies of some rap = ok
The lyrics of some = quite good
The "beat" = sometimes ok
Rap, however = talkking fast and bein mongy...[/QUOTE]
First of, rap is absolutely music, and you can't really argue intellectually that it isn't. It's just as much music as rock, classic music, jazz, blues, metal, country and so on and so on, is. Everything that has a certain sense of rhythm can be defined as music, no whetever it is good music is another topic of discussion, but it's still music.
However, you really mean that the majority of lyrics in the hip-hop genre is 'quite good'? By what I've seen, the hip-hop lyrics disgust me, and is an insult to other greater writers. First of, they show a vocabulary that's basicly limited to some vague synonyms to the female sex, the female genitalia, ethnic black americans, and the environment they live in. Secondly, the content of the lyrics is pretty much limited to the same thing. And thirdly, they have no sense, what so ever of anything artistic, pretty much all the rhymes are put there, just to get a rhythm cliché, and doesn't really have a purpose.
Well, that's my two cents about the hip hop lyrics
