Is Rap/Hip-Hop "Real Music"?

This right here, is the most misinformed post I have ever read. I honestly hope you're joking.

Yes. The question itself is nothing but an insult.

You've little actual understanding of what you're speaking about.

@mrfuzzynutz said:

Some would argue that hip hop is what you are and rap is what you do.

Hip hop, when done right, emits a certain vibe or feeling. Rap, done simply for the sake of rapping, is arguably not hip hop. See: Fred Durst.

@youngsoapman: lol it was a joke answer for this joke thread.

Don't care for 99.9% of rap, but I'm not going to say it's not music, it's simply a genre and style I don't like and which doesn't appeal to me.

Yes it is...

No other genre can be as lyrical as Rap

Of course it is.

Pop, rap, r&b, country, gospel are ALL real music

Yes.

People still say that shit? LOL

Not sure. But most of my thoughts on this particular subject is more about whenever or not artists who appear on stage with no one playing instruments can be called musicians.

Pretty much what @bumpyboo said.

When it's poetic and has a good beat, yes it is. If it's some of the garbage nowadays than no.

Hip-Hop is real because it breaks down into a plethora of unique sub genres that essentially have a sound specific to what someone's looking for. It's a style of music where the sound changes depending on the region of the U.S (And world too) you're in. A lot of people like the beats, I lot of people like unwritten freestyles, a lot of people like the message in verses; heck a lot of people just like it because other people like it.

No true Scotsman debate. Yes, it's music. And probably the most lyrically cerebral and complex.

Not all of it obviously.

Subjective.

I find it hard to understand someone saying they absolutely do not enjoy listening to music.

That said, I still respect that :)

- TAS

If you honestly think it's not based on some poor examples, you're a moron.

Tis true, and a huge inconvenience

Though only inconvenient in the sense that it makes conversations awkward and people less trusting.

Can you at least appreciate some musics? Even if you don't generally enjoy listening to it?

Do you like this (forget where it's from :P)

- TAS

@theamazingspidey: Not really

Frankly IDK what's considered good or bad, and honestly I'm surprised there's a difference, it's just sound. I don't get how some people can like some musics and not others.

Good music personally is something that can evoke emotions in me, or transform me to another world (it might sound like hyperbole but music can and has made me forget I exist in physical form): I create images in my head by listening to good music.

- TAS

@theamazingspidey: That sounds rather bothersome tbh

What's so bothersome about something that makes me feel good? It sounds to me like saying taking a walk is bothersome. What's so bothersome about something I enjoy?

- TAS

@theamazingspidey: Not that, the whole leaving your body and evoking emotions thing, IDK if I'd like that from something that I just hear, not something I have to think about.

That's not how it is. I just shut my eyes for two minutes and get immersed into the music and forget I exist in physical form, but I still exist in mental form. It actually widens my imagination and makes me think more.

- TAS

@theamazingspidey: Exactly, that sounds awful, and I cannot see that as making me think more, it seems more like that would be letting something else think for me or control my thoughts

@theamazingspidey: Also if you wanna keep talking about it, do so in our PM. No offense, it's just that between this and all your blog posts you're overfilling my notifications

-_-

Why is this even a thread in 2016?

~MIB

more noisy like punk and not really musical

Rap music surprisingly spits out a lot of truth that can be regarded as "snitching"

Yes

Yes.

Yes

obviously. It seems that several people are incapable of looking past themselves, and claiming genres of music they don't like aren't "Real Music"

Nope.

Why the fuck would it not be?

how the fuck is it "snitching"

@bruhmoment6: Because they're suppose to be private, they're not suppose to be made public

I think it depends on the sub genre of rap most gangsta rap usually involves stores about an artist past mostly drug dealing or robbery (in which they already did the time for) or embellishes that make a rap more entertaining or conscious hip hop which speaks of inequality & struggle

Drill on the other hand is almost entirely about how many homicides someone has committed & how they plan to do more in the future what makes something like that so captivating is the fact that *most* drill rap isn't an embellishments of the past but literal events that have happened or is happening

Makes sense