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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2019

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted adam22

    He has a point, at least for a lot of rap. Rap is music, in a general sense, but much rap is not music *in the same way* that rock, R&B, country, jazz, Big Band, reggae, or classical are all music; it tends to lack elements they all share.https://twitter.com/adam22/status/1173289165271654400 …

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    Ben Shapiro says rap music isn’t really music pic.twitter.com/4UZ4dnh0aR
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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2019

        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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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2019

        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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      4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2019

        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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      1. Larry Skywalker‏ @ihave5broats 16 Sep 2019
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        He doesn’t have a point.

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      2. Rob‏ @RobMcGreevs 16 Sep 2019
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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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      1. Slade Craven‏ @_slade_craven 16 Sep 2019
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        Give a single example

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      2. Kevin Mayfield‏ @KevinSMayfield 16 Sep 2019

        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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      1. Notorious R.I.M.‏ @cubeinacube 16 Sep 2019
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        dan, thank you for enumerating the boomer music taxonomy.

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