"rap isn't music!".
From an older thread, Jack White on rap music:
Rolling Stone: You're not a hip-hop fan.
JW: Not particularly. I find OutKast and Wu-Tang Clan interesting. But I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. I don't find much emotion in that.
Is Jack right? I think rap is not "musical" in the traditional sense, but it still is an interesting art-form, and like any other genre, there is lots of pop crap, but some great masterpieces too.
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