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Originally Posted by shauk
Lets talk about musical composition for a moment. If you took away the lyrics of your favorite hip hop/rap song, what do you have? Seems to me, in most cases, it's a fairly thin layer of music. A beat, a bassline, and maybe, maybe, a lead.
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In other words, he doesn't care if rap is poetry or spoken word... he is asking about the musical tracks upon which the raps are laid.
As I said above:
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
the music in rap is largely sampled from somewhere else and then reconstructed. It is the first music of the information age. Some traditionalists, like Phil Spector, would say that rap arists should go and learn to write their own songs. Others, like Pete Townshend, would say that the traditionalists should just shut up and get out of the way as a new form of music has been born.
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I would add to this, some are better than others at constructing these musical beds. Some, do make new music upon which to lay their raps.
Like any form of music. It is only as good as the composer/artist and popularity does not always equal excellence.