[AFB-XYZ]

How can there be a “rap song” when rap isn’t music, and its performers don’t sing?

[Red Badger]

I think the first ‘rap song’ was Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”........................

[1Old Pro]

How can there be a “rap song” when rap isn’t music, and its performers don’t sing?

And the background music is computer generated.

[ek_hornbeck]

To be music, something needs melody and harmony. Rap has neither. Just a beat or rhythm don't make music, otherwise a jackhammer would be a great musical instrument.

I'm glad that rap is fading in popularity, though that being said, the anodyne youth market pop that's clogging up the airwaves now is only marginally better.