Is rap art?
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Is rap art?
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Seriously, though, rap is just a poem sung to the tempo button on a casio keyboard.
I respect the lyrics from time-to-time, but the music is generally untalented and embarrasing. I normally wouldn't even consider it music.
The only rap I respect is the rap that actually includes musical instruments, like strings, etc., along WITH great lyrics.
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Being able to kiss your behind takes talent too but it isn't art.jstarr wrote:I disagree, not everyone can rap. I'm not saying that all rap music out there is great but it does take talent. Of course a lot of the newer hip hop music about chillin' with bitches and smoking a blunt does not include profound lyircs, but the songs that aren't just about being rich and famous have good messages.
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Rap "expresses inner experience." This is expression. Cursing out a traffic jam is expression as well. I just don't see what any of it has to do with with art. The only ones that can equate them are those that accept art and expression as the same. It may be good for making money but that doesn't make it true.jstarr wrote:Well are you saying that no philosophers would consider rap as art? As Hume follows the "beauty in the eye of the beholder" theory, it's open and it could be considered art depending on the individual. Or with Tolstoy and Collingwood, they agree with expressionism and how art expresses inner experiences, and isn't that what rap does?
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Re: Is rap art?
The philosophers most likely to embrace rap as art would be those who embrace Raphael, rhapsodies, op-art, trappers and trapeze, have rapport with the trappings of rappings, are rapturous about rap's therapeutic effects on the rappers and the rapped, and also see that all words, including 'rap' and 'music' and 'bees with itches,' are drawn from the right-side of the brain, and thus are art.jstarr wrote:Which philosophers would be most likely to embrace rap as art and which would be least likely?
They would rapier-like also see that rap is and has to be english since it is spelled, and has to be math too since there are so many rap numbers, and has to be history too since there is the history of rap and the rap of history and many raps on history.
Those least likely to see rap as art are those who do not see the above---yet, and are not as yet familiar with a Sir Thomas Crapper, after whom crap in toiletry is well-named.
That's a wrap for now.
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Mainstream any music genre is usually utter ****: Rock (Nickleback), Rap (Kanye), Country (Toby Keith, Rascall Flats) the list goes on.
It takes effort to dig down through the rubbish of music that bombards us every day to find the true representations of the genres.
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All Art is Expression, but all Expression is not Art.Nick_A wrote:Rap "expresses inner experience." This is expression. Cursing out a traffic jam is expression as well. I just don't see what any of it has to do with with art. The only ones that can equate them are those that accept art and expression as the same. It may be good for making money but that doesn't make it true.jstarr wrote:Well are you saying that no philosophers would consider rap as art? As Hume follows the "beauty in the eye of the beholder" theory, it's open and it could be considered art depending on the individual. Or with Tolstoy and Collingwood, they agree with expressionism and how art expresses inner experiences, and isn't that what rap does?
But, if you have the talent to produce art while cussing out a traffic jam, well, I guess you have created art. Although not all art is good art.
Oh, but hey, I just thought of this. I once drew a picture of a dog's head that is unbelievably good! So, I'm going to put it on ebay next week but I figured I would let you all have a first shot at it. Opening bid is $10,000 so let me know who wants it, it will be much much more at the auction!!
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The probability given the current consumerist ethos that any commercial pop music will be a work of art is comparatively slim, but not entirely ruled out.
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1.One is that art has symbolic meaning or point to some social or metaphysical truth that artefacts or tools dont necessarily symbolise.
2. Art is defined by intrinsic quality of tehnique which may or may not be accompanied by meaning.
3. Art is a snobbish social category. Thus, a 'work of art' is thus because the people who have money and so-called 'taste' have declared it to be so.This definition of art would rule out rap and most other popular forms.
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