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The aural expression of hip hop culture is musical in nature
| The aural expression of hip hop culture is musical in nature | |
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| Hip hop |
Music |
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Supporting arguments
The lyrical complexity of rapping, which includes tonal and rhythmic variation in addition to linguistic expression, is sufficient to consider hip hop music. [1]
- Related argument: The lyricism of hip hop is sufficient for it to qualify as music.
Hip hop features all the necessary elements of music. It has rhythm and usually melody and harmony. Rapping itself adds rhythmic complexity, as well as an additional source of melody and harmony in many cases. [2]
Hip hop is created, produced, marketed and consumed in the same manner as any other form of music. [3]
Opposing arguments
Rapping over beats someone else created (e.g. sampling) is not music, it is appropriation of the music of others. Rapping itself is not musical. [4]
- Related argument: Sampling is a valid form of musical expression.
Rapping is not musical in nature, it is lyrical poetry instead. It has no melody or harmony. [5]
- Related argument: Rapping features melody and/or harmony.
Most of the beats in hip hop are produced by computers, not instruments, and are thus neither creative nor musical. [6]
Notes
- ↑ Chase March
- ↑ Chase March
- ↑ Chase March
- ↑ Lemmy Kilmister
- ↑ Anonymous poster on 30 January, 2008 7:06 AM
- ↑ Anonymous poster on 10 June, 2009 7:10 PM
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