If it is then it's bad music.
There isn't enough discussion about how detrimental rap has been to music at large.
For example, melody was almost always important in music, definitely in pop music (in the broadest sense of the term) having a strong memorable vocal melody was the most important thing. If you wanted to write a good pop song you had to have a melody. A lot of the best pop songs people can immediately recognize from hearing a second or two of the vocal.
Rap has destroyed that. Rap has told entire generations of people that atonal shouting or mumbling is just as good as a melody in a song. This has poisoned the way billions of people understand music and it might never recover.
>>128133970 (OP)
Rap is poetry, often overlayed over sampled music, all that is actually needed is rhyme schemes. You feeling the need to post this as if you are making some profound statement actually just shows how retarded you are. Yes it has blended with rnb a la Drake and others but that doesn't change the fact that you are a midwit.
>>128133970 (OP) > Songwriter pours blood, sweat, and tears into his music, creating something moving and deeply personal > Sampled by Lil' Gaptooth in his hit new song "Real Niggaz Sell Crack"
I don't care whether rap is music or not, this is what pisses me off. And much like shitty Disney live-action remakes, the public will eat up media which contains the desecrated corpse of something which was popular in the past. Shortcut to creating a hit rap song? Sample a #1 hit from another decade.
>>128141287
Of course it isn't that easy, because there's no way anyone could sample a hit song while making no discernible changes. https://youtu.be/ZaI2IlHwmgQ
>>128141418 > They took the credit for your second symphony > Rewritten by machine on new technology
It's almost like The Buggles predicted their song would be sampled in a godawful hip-hop track.