rap

A Style Of Hip-Hop that is the most Extreme in all views
Give a rapper a Mic and backround music and he will rhyme for you.

Give a rapper A mic and silence and he will sound like a drugged up Moron.


Rap is nothing More than a phase that is slowly Dying out.
If the only way to reach your audience is to put women in bathing suits, and show off your cars, then you know your Genre is only temporary.

New Genres of music are debuting constantly, but they all come from the same basis of music. The only Instrument a Rapper is willing to Play is his pistol, which can be found in about 1/3 of All rap soungs ever.

Hey man you still like that Rap stuff?

-No, I guess people dont like it as much anymore, So I dont want to either.

Why did you even listen to it anyway then?

-I never really liked it, just everyone else did so I thought I should to.

by Craig F September 22, 2005

rap

Beats and rhymes. Since when did "music" need to justify itself with anything more than rhythm and originality? Leaving aside questions of "poetry," rap IS legitimate music since it is the creative composition of meaningful rhythms and sonic elements that convey emotional meaning - including humor - something many "listeners" seem to lack.

If you deny that rap is "music," then you need to examine your bias. What about other musical expressions that privilege rhythm and timbre over melody? What is your definition of "melody?" Are you listening honestly or through a socially constructed filter of "taste?"

by a real musician November 28, 2007

rap

Rap is not crappp!!!! Crap is too good to be compared to it. Rapi is lazy ass black and some white(Eminem)guys, who don't do nothing and they just talk about their stupid, retarded gangs, and their stupid ugly neighboorhoods. And black people always complain how they are poor and it's not easy for them! That's bullshit. I know people that came to this country with just $20, and after 4 years, they have a house, a few cars,a nice life. So if your lazy asses went to school, finished it, there is a thing called a scholarship..you could all make a life for yourselves you piceses of shit, garbage.

Crap is too good to be compared to rap.

by CroatianKid July 20, 2008

Rap

Rap is a way of life. Many people like my dad even think that rap is a bad influence because all its about is killing cops and smoking weed and all that. Well if you think that please go listen to any song by Tupac Amaru Shakur (Rest In Peace, or any other real rapper. I understnd how you get the idea that rap is about that. A lot of these new rappers sing about that (50 cent, Eminem, G-Unit...) and that is all of the rap that they hear on the radio. Rap is a form of poetry and just like you give Laghston Hughes pespect i think that you should give real rappers respect. Also people think that rap is all black people. Well look at the people in the group The Demigodz there is only one black person out of 6, and there are many other non black rappers like Apathy and Celph Titled.

Rap is my whole life RIP - Tupac, Biggie, Big L, Bun Pun, Eazy-E, and ODB.

by Shadow Boxa December 9, 2008

rap

Rap is not music. Music requires 3 things:
1) Use of musical instruments
2) Rhythm
3) Beat

Rap does not have Rhythm, only beat and most often does not use any musical instruments, rather, uses sounds composed on a synthesiser. Hence, rap is not music, it is a form of poetry.

Rap Fan: Dude Mos Def is such a tallented musician!
Person: What genre does he do?
Rap Fan: Rap
Person: That's not music.

by Rowan France August 26, 2006

rap

A form of "music" characterized by nonexistent harmony, simplistic and repetitive rhythms, and base lyrics. Rap is possibly the worst genre of music in the Western world, though country music is a strong contender. It pales in comparison to the many, vastly superior genres out there, such as jazz, to say nothing of classical.

The composer sighed with resignation as he watched another customer buy a rap CD.

by Sekais June 18, 2006

rap

A downtempo music genre branching off from electronic music. Today, rap is actually poorly put together. The bass is a monotonous sub bass with random patterning, basically it has no melody to it. The melody itself is literally something you can expect to see from someone that has owned a production program for a week. Its a poorly patterned, unadjusted synthline. The vocals are by far the worst part, there is no emphasizing, pitching stressing, or anything else that makes things sound good in music, just some tool saying things that he thinks are witty because its grade 1 poetry, just rhyming. It appeals to people who think the rapper is cool, or think they themselves are cool listening to how "cool" the rapper is. Also its been documented on a survey chart that out of every music genre, avid listeners of rap music have the lowest IQ while listeners to classical music have are a small percentage but at the top of IQ with the upper half of listeners of House and some other electronica. It has also been recorded on a poll on a music production forum that 94.3% of the registered users agree that most year-long amateur producers can make just as good music as the professional hip hop producers out there. I think that speaks for itself.

Next time you want to get at dance/rave/club music about 4 to the floor bassdrum educate yourself on how stupid you and your rap music are. Have fun feeling cool to music that doesn't even sound good, because that's what music is for.

by Jaetribal March 24, 2009