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rap music
n : genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: rap, hip-hop]
Rap
A form of popular music developed especially in African-American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic accompaniment.
Rhythm
And
Poetry.
Rhythm
The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in accentual verse or of long and short syllables in quantitative verse.
Flow
To exhibit a smooth or graceful continuity
Verse
The art or work of a poet
Song
A lyric poem or ballad.
Oh and this one is for some of you that have a never changing opinion
ignorance
n : the lack of knowledge or education
The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
Seriously, you guy's are killing your whole arguement here by saying rap aint music. It is. Period.
You admit that you don't know anything about rap when you say the majority of is Gang ****. Mainstream in every genre doesnt represent the real music being created on the underground, at all. It's the same arguement over and over and is the equivilant of me saying that Avril represents the true punk rock genre. You people talking about rap, is like a 13 year old who saw the video for Black Hole Sun talking about Classic Rock. You just don't know what you're talking about.
and like Gamemaster said, it's the kids and adults' fault that
some people act like that. I don't know if the people in Iowa and Canada are real thugs that are direspectful to the Hip-Hop Culture, but here in LA it's not like that. If you're fake, you get hassled for it and it's quite obvious. Oh, and if someone does where the Fubu baggy pants, the retro Bullets jersey with a matching Hat and the SPrewell shoes, fell free to knock him out if he's being an ass, but not just because of what he wears and listens too. The Hip-Hop culture has changed, but it's not bad. It's just being abused. I hope that Outkast use their next album to bring it back now that they have lots of the Pop fans on their johns.
Listen to "I Used To Love H.E.R." by common. The Girl is a representation of Hip-Hop and if you want a harder more explicit version of this song listen to "Ballad Of Worms" by Cage.