Cheers, Sam. I just can't stand the offhand slagging off of an entire musical style. I really, really love music in all its forms. Naturally, there's stuff I can't stand, but it varies between track to track. This whole "rap is crap" is such a stupid argument, it's like saying "rock sucks". Well, there's the entire genre of rock music from its roots to now completely destroyed in two words. I know rock doesn't suck as I know so many bands from that style, there's some I don't like, some I really don't enjoy for sure, but there's many bands I DO enjoy. In music, in particular, genre terms encompass so much. Hiphop, or to coin the modern term "Urban", covers rap, mixed music, spoken word, a whole host of influences from rock to soul, live music, prerecorded, electronica... just so much stuff. It's a real magpie musical style, but you can find some amazing, truly innovative stuff there. To discount it is entirely unfair.
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