Another way of expressing why rap offends the ears of a lot of people who listen to a broad variety of other genres of music is simply that it is *more different* from the others than they are from each other.
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This is a longstanding challenge to radio programmers, since the last thing you want is one part of your playlist to get people to change stations. Yet, pop artists seem intent on cramming rap into songs of wholly different genres.
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For my part, while I dislike most rap, I have no general problem with people liking it. But they ought to understand why people who dislike it often do so with such intensity. It's like comparing football & dressage. Two radically different things.
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He doesn’t have a point.
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An absurd generalization of a genre of music that arguably has more diversity of sound than any other
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Give a single example
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That's the argument that rapping isn't singing. Does an alternate style of vocalization magically make the music not music anymore?
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dan, thank you for enumerating the boomer music taxonomy.
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