senseless_guy (Sunday, 5 Jul 2009)
Well I don't hate rap, but this simple comparison shows the difference between music and... rap. And I agree with the above, they make money for nothing and chicks for free.

Warped (Monday, 6 Jul 2009)
Way to oversimplify and downplay all styles of rap into one genre. That's like me saying all rap is about is yelling and complaining about shit crawling in my skin and other emo shit. There's a buncha different types out there besides the mainstream stuff. Please don't try to think so much, leave it to people who are better than you.

Humbug (Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009)
Actually no, RAP is short for "Retards Attempting Poetry"

Maceio (Saturday, 1 Aug 2009)
Sadly true, but comparing Coltrane to Lil'Wayne is just bulls**t! And you cannot say that RAP = retard atempting poetry because it is part of a soulful culture called HIP-HOP (rap + graffiti + break dancing) and it is common sense that every culture has its idiots, and fakes and the real problem is that THEY get all the attention because the sell their ass to be famous (and freakishly rich) instead of keepin the culture alive. Lil' Wayne is to hip-hop culture what George W. Bush was to politics!

random (Saturday, 8 Aug 2009)
@Maceio: Uuhhh... You do know graffiti is illegal, right?

funk (Monday, 6 Jul 2009)
...and Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, all the 60's Motown hits, and more more more. What a shame that black music has abandoned it's truly great heritage.

adsg (Friday, 10 Jul 2009)
Look at the caption on the picture dips*it

chels (Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009)
what ya onna bout you hate lil wayne ya likkle watsegyal shut y\ mout

yoo (Tuesday, 7 Jul 2009)
rap is crap.

Hip-Hop (Friday, 24 Jul 2009)
"Dance With The Devil" by Immortal Technique sums up the modern "Gangster Rap" scene perfectly (its grotesque stupidity). It is a great hip-hop song worth listening to. Hip-hop and rap are not the same thing. Please do not mix up the two.

Sean (Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009)
Calling rap music is a brave claim because rap refers to rhythmic poetry. this means there is no pre-determined melody or really tonality of any sort. Of course, the claim that rap is music is by no means preposterous. Even John Cages composition "4'33" (a piece that is 4:33 of silence) is considered music by some. Either way I believe what you are intending to refer to is hip hop (Rap With harmony). Also I would argue that Jazz was treated as an illegitimate form of music for two reasons. First and most obvious is the fact that most early jazz artists were black at a time when our country was much more divided by race. Also Jazz did not conform to western music theory at the time, because of the genres frequent abrupt key changes and further stress on chromaticism. Hip hop on the other hand is considered illegitimate music by many because it often does not have a distinct melody and is likely to feature the same four bar harmony repeating for an entire song. It also isn't treated with legitimacy because of some of the views expressed by some of the genres more prominent artists. I hope this has cleared some stuff up for you guys.

Mhm,,,, (Thursday, 9 Jul 2009)
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Did you even look at the picture? Example one: Art, which requires creative thought, and some level of instrumental skill. Exaple two: Talking like a black guy for 3 minutes and making millions. Yes, They thought Jazz wasn't music back then, but they were wrong. They also called rock n roll ni**er music. But just because they were wrong 60+ years ago [When people were a lot less tolerant], doesn't mean they are now. Look at what you're saying. Rap takes no talent. It takes a synthesizer[gotta have something in background], a phrase to shell out 50 times in 3 minutes, and a mouth to say it with. There.