re: is hiphop or rap really music?

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It's hilarious to me that people think it's harder to play some power chords than it is to make an album like My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. But just because they're playing a guitar...it's music

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I agree 100%. Just because somebody makes music with a medium other than your traditional instruments doesn't make it "not music." It's the same as comparing somebody playing a few power chords (like you said) to soembody playing something very complex on a guitar. They are both "music." Some prefer one or the other. You'd have to be pretty full of yourself to believe you are some authority on what constitutes something as "music."