lol. Remove harmony and melody. Remove singing. Remove the playing of instruments. ...what do you have? Rap.
When there is ‘a beat’ and some sort of musical track...it is almost always the reuse of something created by an actual band.
Sure, it is a form of ‘art’. The lowest common denominator, all you need is a microphone and some rhymes. Is there talent? Sure. Are most rappers talented to the point of deserving accolades? Nope.
I’ve been watching some “reaction videos” on YT. Many are black people reacting to songs from the 80’s. Actual bands. Actually playing instruments with actual music. What is interesting is that there tends to be two types of reactions. One is where they realize just how talented these folks must have been. The other is where they’re not even listening to the music and only judge based on ‘the bars’ (lyrics). They’re only listening to the words....because that is what they know, with no appreciation of the talent in the music.
There's "talent" on the little league baseball diamond too.
True. Sometimes Rap lyrics can be redeemed a bit and presented with melody, singing and instruments, as was done to this old Houston rap number in an unexpected, cross-genre exception to the norm:
- ZZ Top
You're right about those reaction videos, some of them are very entertaining. Have you seen the ones with the black dude geeking out over Roy Clark's guitar skills?