I feel so sorry for what these people have been tricked into believing.
A good ways back the “rap” was Leadbelly singing “Pick a Bale of Cotton” , that is to say what are called “call and response” field shouting/work songs (railroad songs lining track by hand, etc.).
This has morphed into truly disgusting mix of non-english ebonic crap rap with little to no melody, lot of boom and stupid (very anti- female and traditional values) murder posturing. And there are lots of whites (as Sen. Byrd observed and described them) who go for this— even in “country” rap with “clap and fingersnap” bass line boom beats. It really stinks, and appeals to the dumbest out of control doper of any stripe.
For balance here is a classic from The Atlanta Rhythm Section describing the phenomena at real crap hole club they played long ago in Jax,FL (The Rainbow Grill). The real pros of the studio and concert scene in the 70’s (yes- a long while back as the battle began. One cannot argue taste— but...one SHOULD nevertheless in defense of musicianship alone!). Thanks for the post 1Oldpro, from another FReepro-you gave morning hope for a revival of serious players and writers without backing tracks and unintelligible ramblings between crack pipe sessions.
Boogie Smoogie: keep with it— at 3:22 comes the great lyrics and uptime all recorded on maybe a 16 track analog tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GLivgLz1Bg