Re: Rap is technically music
 

HerBIE

*breakcore doots intensify*

Re: Rap is technically music
 

im dumb

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DISCLAIMER: i only listen to about five piano composers from the 19th and 20th century

imo the pitch aspect of rap is by far the most interesting thing about it, using speech as ur melody gives u access to INHARMONIC PITCH RELATIONS which is so esoteric that it took white (and jewish) people until world war 1 to discover it. (ok, not really) i would even wager (i have never listened to a rap song in my life) that many of these pitch relations are used intelligently, such as "making the pitch go higher when u are more excited", "using a similar pitch area or exact pitch when you are repeating a word, or a rhyming schema", or "general expressivity of tone (for many definitions of tone)". if you listen to lots of twelve-tone or modern classical composers your brain starts to hear *everything* melodically and everything as connected through harmony so there's no issue with me on that front. just hearing somebody who has an interesting way of talking feels like an iridescent bird flying through space!!!! kind of like reading a weird person post on a forum. hoo. ok

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(i got linked to this thread through discord, hello everyone)

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what if rap had TOO much pitch? like obviously most rap has not enough pitch to be music. but what if a rap song had like >14 pitches, then could it actually be so much pitch that it cancels out and becomes non-music again?

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rap has at least 13,700 discrete pitches!!!!

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also a common mistake many listeners of hip hop make is they think that all the rappers are singing about "bitches" and that it's misogynistic or to quote MixMasterLar "problematic issues with womanizing" but actually they are saying "pitches" because they know that if there aren't enough pitches in the song it won't technically be music and they won't be able to record it and share it with people

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You know what CT needs? A local mod :P

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To be fair this is like the most action any of these forums get now.

Kinda just enjoying the activity at this point.

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this was truly a great thread

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yo this nf shit sucks lmao not music

but rap is

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ffa /almost/ didn't make it
I'm so proud

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bro when are we gonna start hearing harsh noise rap i think thats a genre that society needs

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bro

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fug

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My father went to music theory school

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Parappa the Rapper is the GOAT

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how tf are u a vet

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Transfer

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Transfer deez nuts
Jabba the Hut
Rolling with my homies to Pizza Hut

Making up rhymes
FFR time
Rap is technically music, but I'd rather listen to Sublime

Word.