To: DallasBiff
Rap is poetry with a beat behind it. Because there is no melody it does not actually fall into the category of music in my opinion but other people have a different view point. They are wrong. :)
If it is good poetry it is quite pleasant. Older "spoken songs" as they used to be known are "Big John" by Jimmy Dean, "Cow Patty" by Jim Stafford or "A Boy Named Sue" by Johnny Cash. Yes, most of the first "rap" was country music. The irony.
The "Gangster Rap" "Drill Rap" or Mumble Rap" is a degenerate form of the art.
4 posted on
07/05/2025 2:55:23 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Tribal syncopated grunting.
5 posted on
07/05/2025 2:58:11 PM PDT by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Yes, most of the first “rap” was country music. The irony.
Hot Rod Lincoln.
6 posted on
07/05/2025 2:59:44 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
None of those country songs you mentioned are rap.
And it is a stretch to call rap poetry since it is usually so hideous.
Rap also does not have harmony, which is a necessary component of music.
12 posted on
07/05/2025 4:13:07 PM PDT by
odawg
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
14 posted on
07/05/2025 4:36:12 PM PDT by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Percussive, mechanical, using urban slang and designed to be unintellegible or, if understandable, then violent and offensive. The Brutalist esthetic of rap is used to remove beauty from this "music".
Greg Allman; Was asked what he thought of Rap music...replied "They forgot the "C".
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