Ray Charles - "Rap is not music"

@simao: I'm in complete agreement with you on the "vague, uninformed, and biased cultural gatekeeping" here. Well said. My point was simply that, as far as I can tell, Ray Charles never said that "rap is not music." The fact that the OP can't even get the line right is indicative of the intellectual laziness of this thread.

@northman I see what you mean. Charles simply said that rap doesn't do anything for him, not that it wasn't music. 

This is such a boring take that I often see in the audiophile world. 

I wonder why?

Rolling Stone to Ray Charles: How did it feel to be labeled the Genius?
"I ignored it. I’m not a genius. Art Tatum – that man was a genius. Charlie Parker was a genius..".

Bet you never even heard of Tatum or Bird.

Rap/Hip-Hop is arrogant, destructive, ugly Ebonics drivel - ignorance, the bane of genius. It is not only not music, rap is a pervasive and debilitating form of mental illness.

Here are a few practitioners of the rap genre of whom Hip-Hop lovers can be proud...

https://www.ranker.com/list/rappers-who-killed-people/ranker-hip-hop

Is there any other form of music (or "music") which can even come close to claiming this distinction?

You've got issues, buddy