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Rap Is More than Music
by: All The Lyrics
This is a style that stays aside all the other music
trends. Not aside, but somewhat deeper. The reason is it
is a reflection of the race, the plurality of people
united by roots and origin. Rap is the culture of
Afro-Americans, the continuation of their language and
traditions. Rap is a mixture of speech and music,
actually it is speech laid on music or beat it’s better
to say. And when we claim that people are united through
music, meaning every single human being on this planet,
rap unites the ones close to blood by music and then
everybody else, either welcoming or being hostile to a
newcomer. What attracts people in rap? Is it catchy?
Maybe. Those non-natives to rap often state the flow of
speech is too quick and it is difficult to differentiate
the words. Sometimes it seems rap music is only for
those from the cradle. Foreigners are not invited.
Rap is classified as urban poetry of lyrical resistance.
Thus it is not the music for village like country music.
It is the gathering power of those united by music in
big cities. The aim is to resist the grieves because
misfortunes are more dramatic and numerous in urban
areas.
Rap does not only speak to the mind and emotions, but
speaks to the society all around people, for people. If
the words or courage to say those words are not there,
the subconscious takes over and the Rap lyrics kick in.
But once captured by the beat, most people - mainly
younger ones - begin to hear the words, and the words
may describe just how they are feeling that day. If the
boss came to work with an agenda to screw everyone, some
people will \"feel\" the words and the beat, especially
when enclosed in a car doing 70 on the freeway. It’s
something about riding with the music turned full-blast
that has a way of absorbing the mind and supplying a
means of temporal escape.
Some songs have innocent words that impress upon the
mind to be released later at the water cooler. Some
choruses are catchy and when sung by certain artist will
stay within the subconscious long after. Various rappers
have unique voices that some people find attractive or
along the same vocal tone as their own voice, which it
makes it easier to sing along.
First goes the beat, and then goes the lyrics! It is not
as smooth and tender as classical music, not as glossy
as pop, but it has the scream of pain of real emotion of
the world’s harshness. One may even state that rap is
the most pain expressing music style. Those who sing it
or it is better to say read it revive their feelings not
only concerning love, as most of the other styles do.
Their message is about life and the problems, especially
the ones of the Afro-American people. The music of pain
and oppression, rap is a remedy to the latter. Let all
the pills be like that!
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