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A genre of music where poetry is delivered verbally in tune with a beat, sometimes music, that includes many other techniques such as wordplay, repetition, paradoxes, onomatopoeia's, metaphors and many other figurative languages.

Rap tends to not follow the rules of many other genres of music. It sometimes doesn't have a chorus or a hook like other genres of music do and it's one of the only genres where vocals (such as singing) aren't really used.

It's also a genre that is disliked by many (mostly non-African Americans) for many reasons. Many say it's stupid and only talk about money, bitches, ho's, cars and etc. But that's mainly because the majority of the population tends to listen to mainstream music and don't understand the truth behind record producers and the deals they put out regarding topics a certain individual must make a song about.

If you listen to many underground rappers, independent rappers or rappers that have deals that give them freedom to rap about what they want (i.e. Ice Cube, Tyler, the Creator, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, J. Cole, Tupac), you'll notice the change in their lyrics from many mainstream rappers (i.e. Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, OJ the juice man).

In my opinion rap is one of the most difficult forms of music genre to create the music for because of how much figurative language is actually used in the music, the continuous flow of words with long verses, and the many rhyme schemes it must follow, unlike many other genres.

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