Will, I'm still not sure what you're saying. I can argue semantically that rap is music, but you say it isn't. You've called drums music. Would Gregorian chant be music too? You're misinterpreting the dictionary definitions, I think. Either that, or you don't quite understand what happens when we utter language, and you don't quite understand what is happening when someone raps.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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