Yet interestingly, the people who despise it most are those who might well be responsible for its creation and its place in our culture. Using these as criteria, maybe many people are right. So there we are, with music that has no melody, no harmony and no rhythms of its own. Its lyrics, however, provide a rhythm of their own, which at times is not unattractive, but because the lyrics are spoken or shouted at us, rather than sung to us, we are not drawn to them. At first, rap didn’t provide its own rhythm instead, it used prerecorded tracks. The third ingredient in the music mix is rhythm. So rap leaves out completely two out of the three ingredients we enjoy so much in songs. What’s more, rap has no harmony, and in music, harmony is usually melody’s servant. But what do those people find unsatisfactory or irritating about it? Rap has no melody, so what’s to sing? Many people will argue that the phrase “rap music” is an oxymoron.
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