Is rap art?
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Popular culture over-feeds but is never an indicator of Art. There are things performed before colliseum-bursting hordes that will not qualify as Art to some solitary plucker alone in a tavern having his way with the medium (sound). And that assessment is just as valid as any.
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Education in music, like education in anything, costs money. Popular culture is for and by the masses who have not had the benefit of expensive educations in musical appreciation to prefer "more concentrating music". One struggles to keep intellectual snobbery out of this discussion, and so I do want to praise rap for what quality is undoubtedly has , despite its commercialisation.
I have not much hope, Apeman, for the quality of the art of the solitary plucker alone in his tavern. I wish I had.Some people dear to me meet the description. If these solitary pluckers had the flair of Bob Dylan, yes, but otherwise they need to sweat and work at their art before they produce "more concentrating music".
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It can deliberately pretend that fiction is fact, as in some dishonest reportage.
It can cause sensations instead of feelings and wisdom, as in pornography.
It can waste time when a person can be working perhaps a bit harder to understand some art that engages the audience, reader or viewer in making sense of it.
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I can say this becasue i am a semi-professional hip hop artist myself. As stated earlier hip hop or rap is a form of poetry, the difference being hip hop has the freedom to use foul language to emphasis it's statements. As with all art, there will be some better than others. But invedibley it is the opinion of the listner whose judgement is relavant.
I use hip hop as away of describing the thoughts an experiences ive encounterd during my life, the trials & tribulations.
Hip hop is a tool i can use to verbaly tell these stories in a way that people will relate to and understand while at the same time listen to something they enjoy. The construction of multi sylable sentences with a continuous rhyme & flow is not easily achieved unless you have unique skill that a "hip hop" artist has.
"as the door closes
he starts to loose focus
voices from his past echo he's so hopless
they gave a damn they never took notcie
the words on his pad are sad yet so faultless
lead the kinda life that most could not cope with
seen the kinda sights that folks just don't notion
yet he still fights with both his eyes opens
knows deep inside that lies have been spoken
if he breaks down and cries that means he been broken
it means it's all ove dreams are up in smoke an
hes suffered for nothing
he'll live his life wandering
if he coulda been something
instead of just another dumb kid
with this big dream up in the cloud
he wanna be the man but he feel like a coward
put the mike in his hand, emotion devoured
then he opened up his mouth and the words came out"
If you can understand the technical contruction of this verse i wrote you may appreciate hip hop. If you don't then you do not understand hip hop. This is my art form, it is on display for the world to judge....
then judge them at there moment of weakness.
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while giving sight to blind lyrics that you read as I write.
These rhythms arise, then die, after re-giving life.
A phoenix flees from the fire, virgins breathe upon mics.
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The lyrics and deliver is surely an art form and a talent being a skill and no one would deny the artistic reality of poetry.
Thus I see now grounds to say rap is not art and therefore one must conclude that it is.
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