I guess I understand, although I will never agree with, the prevalent mistrust and dismissal of rap on this forum. Maybe it reflects the aging white demographic that is many of the members here, but to write off a brilliant art form with so many gifted and talented artists has rap and hip-hop has seems short-sighted.
I am too old to like rap music in general , but i am enough young to appreciate the real poetry, and rythmic rethoric.... Then it will not change my musical taste but you were right about the ignorance linked to the complete dismissing....
Like for any musical form in considerations, there is "rap" and there is rap.... I already listened sometimes to some very beautiful rap artistically done....
It is like free jazz; there is indeed "free jazz" and free jazz.....And some free jazz is truly genius....Like some rap....
Music in all his manifestations are only many perspectives takes on the human soul, and most of us can only take a short part of this pie....
How many in america feel love for classical chinese erhu music? Or japan koto? Or Persian tanbur? Or arabic Oud ? Or Bulgarian folk voices?
History of mathematic is for me a part of the history of the human spirit...
History of music and poetry is part of the history of the human soul...
How many portion of these pies constitute also a part of our own spirit and soul journey in our less than one century visit on earth? Not so much....
