There is a reason you might call one group of people 'Musicians' and another group 'Rappers'
Almost no rapper plays any instrument, they don't use any tones from a strong or wood intrument or brass or melodies, if they do use notes its typically samples maybe 3 electronic noises or 4 fake electronic tonal sound noises, most of the work is done by a skilled audio engineer and a software program, all the basslines are faked and all the drums are samples, typically another groove is stolen or they just use some drum and bass machine, they hit the 'on' button and the software plays and cuts their music for them, that's the level of rap these days and they dont even 'Rap' to rhythm anymore, they just mumble some shit out and upload it to soundcloud or youtube or some shit
The reason music is so shit today is because people stopped criticizing, they stopped fixing people's playing, stopped telling people they were out of tune, with crap like Rap almost anything any beat or noise is acceptable as long as its looped to a beat.
They dont even have to 'Rap' these days they actually Mumble
At one time people in Rap or Hiphop would sample real musicians, now its all plastic fake and remade and re-cut, a fake sample of the stoner Snoop Dogg, sampled by Kanye Omari West sampled by another fake muble rapper, with all these electronic samples of other electronic samples, there is nothing real left in this stuff anymore and eventually the tonal quality goes to shit.
@killianduclark said:
Also, your shitty taste in music =\= objective metric for judging musical quality around the world
Music all acorss this fucking world from Japan to Brazil to African Blues and Gospel music, to the folk music of India to ancient Greece and Rome have definitions of music, they have melody, chords. Inside the layers of music it has these things called Melody, just about every animal has rhythm, a dog barking a cow running should have rhythm, but music should also have more, not just noises put to beats it should have a melodic framework for improvisation and composition, in Indian Hindu music you have raga and tala, in Blues you had chords and a 12 bar form, and improvised bars for solos, in Western Classical music you have layers or harmony, you have melody lines mixing with other modes and other scales and other chordal harmonies....its not me who says this, its the entire culture of our planet Earth has defined music like this, for THOUSANDS of years, the act of producing musical sounds with the voice in bords, in whales in monkey gibbons has been around since the dawn of time, if you are tone deaf and can not sing any notes, then you can become a rapper.
Any REAL musician should be able to hear what key a song is in, hear the Perfect Fifth, know the Octave your ears should AT LEAST hear a doubling of the frequency unless you have hearing issues, hear the Fourth note, maybe know a third tell if the song is Major or Minor, know the root note or key of the song. If you can not hear any of this shit then you are simply TONE DEAF, the most primitive caveman of civilisations even knew the Fourth and the Perfect Fifths in songs, we played and sang this way for thousands of years, even the most primitive spear chucking tribe should be able to do something pentatonic, if you cant hear 3 different notes then its possible you are TONE DEAF, the tone deaf idiots are allowed call themselves rappers.
Rap however is typically Low IQ shit, dumb noisy music, city people noises shit for the dumb hoodrats and children who are entertained by vulgar pop songs on the radio.
Everything in cRap music and SHiT-hop music culture involves using a fake plastic machine software to make the song or outrought stealing samples of other songs, James Brown's drummer Clyde Stubblefield has a certain beat sampled hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of times, once you 'hear' this beat you hear the drum everywheer, its in every damn song over and over and over again, another is Led Zeppelin's drum groove and John Paul Jones bassline, its not a rapper that made this work, they just stole some otehr person's work and sampled it, maybe slow it down a little, cut it, but once you recognize the playing you hear the sample over and over fucking and over and over and yet over and over and fucking over and over over and over and over and over and yet over and over and over and fucking over over and over and over and over and over and fucking over and fucking over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....THE SAME SAMPLED cRAP AGAIN AND AGAIN
No Originality!
Modern mumble rap requires zero talent and has no musical merit...its literally American culture starting to de-evolve.
Really Dumb Low IQ shit, they can not play an instrument, not a single instrument, not even make a fucking 3 chord trick on a guitar.
So we are told Rappers have musical merit? Rap has words and rhythm so does every other fucking genre of music. Think of a deformed child that is angry violent and just ends up in jail and addiction and hating police and more jail, this is 'Rap' thing is one of the greatest fucking embarassments America has ever made for herself, only shit hoodrat culture and its mama could 'love' rap. Calling Rap music is like calling Japanese Hentai Pronography 'Art'. Rap is one of the greatest cultural embarassments America has ever produced, at least the Japanese dont claim this crap as 'high art'.
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