Classical Music Is Better Than Rap

Has anyone ever heard of contemporary classical music?Well thats what you hear in movies that make us say "what a nice movie that was" at the end of the reel.Mozart, Bethoveen, were the oldies.Next time you hear violins,trumpets and all the rest playing at the background of a great scene,thats contemporary classical.Rap is cool too.

its silly to try to compare 2 genres of music! thats just like sayin is a boy better than a girl! or comparing left and right! For God's sake what would be left if right was taken away? by the way i'll never pay attention to classical music till am old, toothless and cant rap nomore, naw thats a long time! all genres are equal in requirement, rap&hip hop require liveliness while u hav to be borin to sing classical, imagine me listenin to jim reeves or bethrovan or wateva they call dat old man! 4those of u who sayd rap requires no talent, try dissin eminem to his face; u'll regret your whole life (aint that talent),

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Lets go back to the oldies, i mean when music was music
I gat nuttin like rap, classical music is what people listen to.
It changes so many life's, for examply in Nigeria, rap of a thing started 90s
And b4 then we have great artist like Fela, Obey, Sunny. etc
Listen to me very well and get me right.
   real music is the combination of sounds, when we talk of sound\
  am talking of full instrument, when you feel what we call music himself.

 We don,t need to be prolonging matters here, Classical music is music.
           Forget rap
Am a Universal Artist, so i can give it to my fans the way they want it.

    THANK You, Mr BANGING [/color]

i tire too oh. that guy is fcuking high. did you see his 'who can challenge me' thread?

not!!!! :p

Sharetroll - you couldn't have said it any better, "pick up a guitar or sit down to a piano once in a while and try to sing along with the music."  Possible, only if we assume rap "artists" can even read music, let alone play an instrument.  I propose that we re-name "rap" and call it "tick" or "leech" instead, since "rap artists" are the biggest group of parasites to ever grace the planet. As a formally trained musician versed in just about every genre (jazz, opera, tribal, classical, Broadway, roots, blues, soul, you name it, ), I laugh when I hear a new rap "song", because I can identify each and every hook, riff, & line a rap "artist" has stolen from a real musician. It's even more amusing when they try to disguise or transpose a well-known melody or libretto, and then destroy any semblance of a song with Neanderthalian utterances.

Eurphoria - what about Erik Satie?   Don't you just love his "Gymnopedies"? 

Sharetroll - you alluded to rap being worse than Indian Tribal Music.  I think it's even worse than Ancient Druids' Chants (, or is THAT rap???) 

To Gbade.x - if the rap "musicians" don't want themselves portrayed a certain way, then why do they keep giving interviews on MTV, VH1, etc.?, during which they VERY MUCH perpetrate the "bling-bling, hoe, whip-driving image"?  Why aren't they on Tavis Smiley, Oprah, Dr. Phil, or Bill O'Reilly?  Oh, maybe because these quality shows simply don't want them,

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@ Linda,

I don't know why you cunningly avoided "Gospel Rap" or "Consciousness Rap".

No form of music requires extreme expertise. Music is the product of inspiration. I could spend a whole day in a studio and produce a 16-track RnB album, if i can play classical instruments, i can as well produce a 40 track Classical album in one single day. Classical has to do about remembering and implementing your sequence of keystrokes in a timely manner, same goes for all forms of soundtrack music, and hooks (choruses). How RAP became crap because Oprah failed to invite rappers is so surprising!!!

If oprah is best at showing bra sizes and extreme makeover and beyonce's new fashion outfit, i don't know if rappers'd even welcome an invitation to such, i remember the bust up with Luda Cris.

You don't like rap because some rappers indulge in name calling especially for women. As for the bling bling tingy, i don't support that beef, rock rappers as well as some americans have crazy tattoos and extreme piercing all over their bodies and no one seems to be concerned. Bling bling is extreme jewellery owned by rich people. Many RAPpers see their blings as a such of identity or inspiration. Some even customize it with their names just like rich people customize their number plates. So what'z d big deal about that?

Please show me a classical guy who spoke for his people with his music. I can speak of Tupac. Dead but still living!

Back @ topic: Classical Music is Better than Rap. Why? Cos Rap indulges in name calling for women and classical is for Old People who have no teeth and as such can't rap. Point Blank!

This comparison is an impossible one,I live for two kinds of music,
           JAZZ/CLASSICAL and RAP.
  And the two of them are genres so far apart,so I cant say I prefer any!
When i'm not playin Jayz or Nas or Jadakiss,then I must be playin Tchaikovsky or Yanni or Kenny-G,Billy Vaughn etc.
I also cant live witout rap,cos thats my source of inspiration,being an emcee.Plus,goodrap requires a lot of creativity,intelligence.No one should dare call rap nonsense,Its easier to write 20 R&B verses,than a single good rap verse!
                                    RESPECT RAPPERS!

. . . .and it is in the guise of Classical Music? Please don't make me laugh!!!

@ Linda,

As we all know classical music (western art music) caters to the high culture (wealthy people) in the west and their entertainment while rap music caters for the inner city people, poor folks, youth, minority, and their entertainment & concerns.rap has a wide audience because the genre has spread all over the world.

I personally am not a huge fan of either form but i'll pick rap music over classical music anyday. lol
I get nothing from classical music. boring, and dead  doesn't apply to me.
rap on the other hand, If you listen to the good artists, they have good messages. I remember my church pastor singing Nas' "I know I can" to us little kids when it used to be the song.
Yeah a lot of the rappers that are popular are wack ad preach violence, sex and drugs (duh,  . sex and violence always runs the show) esp. in USA
 but that doesn't disqualify the other rap musicians whether they're based in France, England, underground or in Nigeria (amplifyed crew, maintain, trybesmen, ruggedman etc).


and oh yeah, rap music is more vocal. while classical music is instrumental. play your expensive high culture piano and whatever.
so i don't know why you expect rap musicians to be tapping away at pianos If you can't qualify that by expecting Mozart to be vocalizing free rhymes that talks to the society.

there's a difference between the two. no real comparison, IMO

can "your hero" India arie be considered Hitler's messenger then for collaborating with Akon (famous mainstream rapper)  in her song "I am not my hair"?


and you sound like you're only familiar with MTV african american rappers. Listen to rappers from all over the world to widen your perspective.
Neither Beethoven (german) nor Mozart (austrian) was american 
and i never heard of an american classical musician. so widen your perspective and listen to rappers from germany too. or maybe Nigeria 
we're not obsessed with violence and sex in media like americans. at least not yet.



I most definitely prefer pop music to rap music though. lol 

music made me hip hop raised me
growing up imperfect rose in the concrete
so dont hate, cause its my culture what i think is great
this rap game was all i got i could shit on your debate
its music, so listen to what im about to say
listen to whatt i recite
what i write, the things i spit
you bitches bout to get it right
so listen, try to understand hiphop
the beat my soul watch this poetry drop
watch me pop,
money, cars, women That shit aint hiphop
its just the shit stuck on the bottom
really fucken listen to pac
and the worlds problems
cause i dont give a fuk about mozart ot chopin
they were great but did they
give a mess about the worlds problems?!
bitch i dont think so,
so listen to my rhmes, poetry my lingo
because these artists see society on a different angle
born rebels had to fight a soldier needed to get through the night
while what did mozart do? got sick coward in fright
so don talk shit about hiphop
yall aint right let me bring yall into the light
music is music yall can all hunt me tonite

You can find good music underneath both genres though personally I prefer Classical

If the so-called classical music is so damn good how come very few ppl listen to it and rap that U claim is very bad has more audience.The fact is dat rap is not just a genre of music,it's poetic in nature,it can be balladic(narrative poem),an  elegy(song or poem full of sadness for d dead),and it could also be in d form of an ode(a long elaborate usually rhymed lyrical poem often in praise or celebration of sth or sb).These attributes re wat endearz it to ppl,it's not jst abt great soundz and beats,but it also ministerz,addresses d ills in d society,it talks abt issues in a way no genre,no matter how sophisticated can do.And who sayz U dont need skillz to be a rapper,am yet to see any genre of music dat does't require skillz,may be U should ask a committed rapper how rap is written,it's in barz,u ve to know stuf like dat,u dont jst pick d mic and start rapping,like any other skill it's honed thru practice and commitment.So tryin to sound sophisticated with those jaw-twisting namez only appeals to U.