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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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    1. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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. designated driver assasinator‏ @WeInventedYou 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Dan, we know you don’t like rap because it’s artists are predominantly black and outspoken, you don’t have to lay out pablum like this, just get to the point.

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        1. Notorious R.I.M.‏ @cubeinacube 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          would you say that the beatles are closer to eminem or closer to the gerogerigegege?

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        1. Stephen Thorson  🦡  🧀‏ @StephenThorson 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Conservatives in the 20s: "Jazz is not proper music." Conservatives in the 50s: "Rock and Roll is not music." Conservatives in the 90s: "Rap is not proper music." Black people invent new art. Conservatives say it isn't proper art.

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        2. JustAnotherSnakeCult‏ @raindogtweets 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          It doesn’t offend, necessarily, it just all sounds the same. Hip hop has melody, or at least melody potential, but true rap is just a base beat with words, at least to my ears.

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        3. Alf (pawg form)‏ @Kaijindv 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @raindogtweets @baseballcrank

          holy shit. first saying all rap sounds the same and then trying to define what "true rap" is.

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        2. Robert A George  🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇹🇹‏Verified account @RobGeorge 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          That was true once. Not so now. Rap/hip-hop has been around so long that its elements influence other pop-adjacent genres. It's why "Old Town Road" is so HUGE, but hardly groundbreaking. Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" remix with Nelly effectively sundered country/rap "line."

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        3. Seth Mandel‏Verified account @SethAMandel 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @RobGeorge @baseballcrank

          Yep. Kanye fused w/ gospel & alt rock (Kid Cudi); Lil Wayne literally made a rock album (and toured w/ Blink 182); Saul Williams made a jazz record (David Murray); Jay Z & Linkin Park made that mashup album; B.O.B is all over the map; Nas performed w/National Symphony Orchestra

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        1. Alf (pawg form)‏ @Kaijindv 16 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          The amount of energy conservatives expend dancing around the fact they just hate black people could easily power the US for generations.

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