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I see. So if a musical genre - like every other musical genre - has plenty of low quality material alongside its higher quality material, it is no longer a musical genre.

I hope you're not claiming that thought process is coherent.

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I see. So if a musical genre - like every other musical genre - has plenty of low quality material alongside its higher quality material, it is no longer a musical genre.

What you deem "high quality", most here deem as trash. However, there may a couple of rap sounds I actually like, mainly from the early days. "Planet Rock" (by Soul Sonic Force?), one example.

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I see. So if a musical genre - like every other musical genre - has plenty of low quality material alongside its higher quality material, it is no longer a musical genre.

What percentage of Rap music would you categorize as "low quality". I would say, approximately 99%. Most of the tracks are so similiar you can hardly tell the difference between them. There is very little imagination involved. Most of the lyrics are horribly offensive, at least to normal/decent folks.