El Gordo Wrote:One of the few musical types that leaves me cold is rap, which I just don't get at all.
Have you listened to* The Streets'
A Grand Don't Come For Free? A beautiful piece of work, IMHO. Musically, I guess it wouldn't be categorised as rap, but if rap means a vocal style then to me, rap it is.
If you're talking about the more common, aggressive forms of rap (which I believe would come under the umbrella of hip-hop, but I'm no expert) then to me it's just another high-energy musical form addressing the issues of youth. For those of us for whom heavy rock etc fulfilled that role, there's probably no room in our brains to appreciate a whole other genre doing the same thing.
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* definitely to be
listened to rather than
heard
