My Thoughts on Rap

My thoughts on rap music. I know I’m probably going to get a lot of hate for this one, but unlike most of the class I really don’t care for rap music. Although I respect it as an art form, (well the ones that actually have a meaningful message and not the garbage they produce so people will like it because people like it because its popular, etc.), but my many problem is I feel most of the time it isn’t really music to me. I know this sounds crazy, and I’m not saying this for all rap songs. Sometimes it just seems like rap isn’t technically music. My though of what music is, is a combination of melody and rhythm. From a few rap songs I have heard, they don’t have melody at all. I’m not saying that the entire piece has to have melody, I’m just saying it lacks any melody at any point in the song. It just has lyrics, and a beat. Now to me this sounds more like poetry rather than music because it deals more with the message of the words, the rhythm of speaking those words, and a beat. That is why I respect it, but more as another art form. I will count it as music though if it does have a little melody in it though. Like today we listened to rap, which featured melody during the “hook” of the song, which was sung by female singers. I’ll count it as music, but I guess I just don’t care for rap much because personally I care more about the melody then the lyrics in any song.