do you consider rap to be music? IF YOU LIKE RAP DONT COME IN HERE

[Aurey]

This thread is ridiculous! How can you say what is and isn't music, you have no right. Just because you listen to "real music" (wtf does that mean anyway?) doesn't give you a right. Jezzum Christmas, people.

I listen to a lot of strange stuff (noise, ambient blahblahblah), but I still consider it music. It's pushing boundaries, it's weird, it doesn't hold much in it, you can't rock out to it, but it doesn't mean that it isn't music. That type of music or sound quirks my interest, it's inspriring for me, therefore I think it is music for me. I've always seen music as an emotion, sure there's a ton of crap out there, but people listen to it, and people ENJOY it, people can relate, people can get an emotion from it, people enjoy/have love for what I call crap. Music is just like television, sports, and etc., it can be treated as entetainment. Basically, it means a lot of diffrent things for different people.

Music is constantly changing. Mainstream rap has undergone an amazing change, or maybe it's audience has, or maybe... I don't know. All I know is that people like it for various reasons, and you telling them that Iron Maiden is ten times better isn't going to do much. I know it hasn't for me, it's just made want to beat myself over the head repeatedly with something heavy. Let them enjoy it if they enjoy it.

I tried my best not repeat some people, since a lot of really intellingent things have been said already (see: DK, Shiny, El Bandito to namedrop). Sorry. ;o