Is rap considered music?

[LMD]

We are not discussing quality, merely categories.

We're not discussing quality? Could have fooled me.

Rap is not in my Ipod. When I was in elementary school and high school, rap was popular. Back when I was a teenager, I listened to rap out of peer pressure, my observation is that it is just a person yapping, with a lousy voice projection, on a background track. The background track is considered music, but the person yapping is not. I don't know how Eminem became so popular, he is just yapping about his mom, trapped in a closet or something, with swear words added.

A typical rap lyric: Antlers in the treetop/Who goosed the moose? Can you quote rap lyrics that enhance the human experience? Most all I've heard encourage some kind of violence--just what we don't need more of in this world...unless you wish to post the ISIS/ISIL greatest hits collection.

You call those tracks great music? I can easily evaluate what's a good quality song and discard a song that is poor quality and trash...I discarded them (the tracks) all.

I have always thought rap was invented for people who can't sing
bet you 90% of rappers can not carry a tune

But, quality plays no part in this discussion? Alright, if you say so.

There is a difference between prose and poetry even if the lines are blurred sometimes; there is a difference between 3D printing and sculpture even if the lines are blurred sometimes; there is a difference between architecture and architectronics even if the lines are blurred sometimes... "Reinventing the wheel"? It's more like reinventing chess or mahjongg. Can you come back with clips that prove my position mistaken?

I cannot because I have no idea what your point is. All you did was list 2 different subcategories of one larger category and say they're different. Sure prose and poetry are different; no one's going to say they're the same thing. But at the end of the day, they're both art. 3D printing and sculptures are different, but both art. Chess and Mahjongg are different, but they're both games.

The question posed originally is; is rap music? Following your example of comparing two different items that are linked under one larger umbrella; Rap and death metal are different. But they're both music.

What's the point that I'm supposed to be disputing with clips?