I've listened to rap for many years as a multi instrument musician it doesn't hold up. As for rock about 90% play instruments.I could have have picked any other genre of music like jazz, classical, blues, flamenco. For rap less than half actually play a musical instrument.
Not saying that some bands don't but they perform that every night not so easy. Clearly they haven't heard the different sub genres of rock. And for people to say all they do is scream is very ignorant. Its not done at just a press of a button and the music plays. People actually playing the drums, bass ,guitar, piano, actual singing every night on tour for 9 months out of the year. Every person on stage plays an instrument or two amazingly too actual rockstar status. A rock on the other hand is very different. A hey ho, uhh for an hour or 2 and that's it nothing musical there from what I can see. What do you see at a rap concert? The DJ pressing a button playing music no talent there, the rapper with 6 other guys repeating what he just said. But to truly see if it is real music is the live experience. And that its an art, sorry it doesn't take too much to flow just a decent vocab and ear for the MIDI produced beat or a sampled piece from some else's hard work. I haven't even discussed the personal life of rappers, their ridiculous choice of clothing and adornments, or the childish names they give themselves, but that's another argument.Įveryone talks about the struggle on the streets, drug life, gang life we have heard it repeated to death. I miss the days when song lyrics were true poetry and it was often difficult to know the true meaning because one could interpret the song in different ways. And don't get me started on rhymes that remind me of a poem written by an 8 year-old. These lyrics are more for shock value than anything that is actually meaningful. Also, rap overtly uses vulgarity, sex, and promotes the use of alcohol and drugs. The use of similes is nauseating ("this is like that", "he is like _", she is like _"). Unfortunately, most of the lyrics are very weak to the point of sounding kind of silly, and there is almost nothing that sounds original.
Vocals: This is the only somewhat original part of the rapper's "art." Sometimes rappers actually do a good of job mixing together rapidly "sung" vocal parts. Sampling: If I were a musician who created a unique sound and wrote a song to go with it, then, with actual talented musicians, recorded that song, I would be furious if some no-talent rap "artist" stole it.ģ. That is what I hear in today's rap - simple, push-button sounds from a cheap keyboard.Ģ. The beat: Years ago, I had a cheap Casio keyboard with pre-programmed beats and sounds. Cheap sounding background beats, sampling other musicians, and talking sh*t does not music makeġ.
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