Curt Doolittle updated his status. I don’t consider rap ‘music’ per se, but prot

Curt Doolittle updated his status.

I don’t consider rap ‘music’ per se, but proto-music, or the restoration of tribal dance and rhythmic poetry. For example, all peoples have story-chants, and homer was recited to a ‘beat’. To qualify as ‘music’ requires (That I know of) melody, and rap makes use of voice, rythmy, and melody as interlude or decoration.

I am however a bit of a fan of admixture of melody and rap, and there are some artists (particularly male female duets) that do this well.

I don’t consider non-melodic ‘rock’ music either – it’s the white equivalent of rap: tribal dance and rythmic poetry. A sort of military rap.