Rap Mug

Rap is a form of art. It is a genre of music which includes strong beats, singing, and often looping sounds. Rap is often a thing people use to help concentrate*. Many athletes listen to rap before a sporting event to be able to concentrate. Something needs to be realized about rap, and that is that it doesn't suck. People scattered across the internet are assuming the following: "I haven't listened to rap..." "I am assuming rap isn't good..." "I am assuming that all it includes is talking really fast into a microphone..." "Rap sucks." Yet, these same, ignorant, people are the people who get upset when other people complain about rock and/or metal. They are saying that "Rap is a stoopidz from od "mosic," and generalizing that. Then, people say, "In my opinion...well, I don't know...rock is a good genre of music, but I kind of prefer rap..." What happens now? Hypocrisy Hyposricy ensues. Arguments such as "that is generalizing**" occur all the time. Other arguments such as "Like 0mgz r4p promotes sex, violence, gang warfare, drugs..." Yet, this always makes me laugh. Has anyone realized that rock promotes committing suicide? As stated before, hypocrisy is exemplified. More hypocrisy is found when you realize most people posting here WANT sex... A majority of people posting as a "definition" of rap are the one's who are ignorant about it. "Rap takes no talent." Rap includes Freestyle Rap, which is definitetly NOT an easy thing to do. Freestyle includes quick thinking, custom music, and the ability to talk in a quick paced, stable tone. It is not just talking fast. Going too fast or too slow will ruin a rap. Choosing background music for a rap is not easy either. It has to FIT in. "Rappers are g4gsters wh0 n33d to b3 sh0t." Rappers are not gangsters***. The gangster or gangsta background is an image. The image SELLS. The intent of anybody's career is to make money to live. By this statement, rappers succeed in life. "Rap doesn't take singing...just talking really fast. Rapping takes no musical talent." Consider looking up the word "tempo." Rapping is not talking fast, it requires metronome, beat, poetry, tempo, and rhythm. All of these are aspects of music, henceforth, rap is music. Creating music takes talent, henceforth, rap takes talent. I hope that helps clear people's minds up. It sickens me how unintelligent, one sentence long "definitions" are the ones with the most thumbs up. It is also pitiful how if you choose to knock this down with a "thumbs down," you will be biased. Nothing I stated here was an opinion; these are all facts.