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 …
And again, I don't dispute that. I just think some genres, being more different than others, mix less well.
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@SethAMandel and I showed that there’s no genre that hip-hop can’t mix with. Again, this is a critique that literally ignores the last 20 years (even more wrt to rock — Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, etc). -
Right, I was restricting my examples to recent ones—honestly the Saul Williams/David Murray is otherworldly—but I was going to say Beasties were practically punk rock at times: see “Tough Guy.”
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One more observation related to Ben’s original point: Much the same criticism was made of jazz. Then, music academics argued it wasn’t “real” music because it was rhythm-oriented, wasn’t transcribed, largely improvised. Now, of course, it’s considered America’s classical music.
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Well I can't think of what the commonality might be.
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