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Re: *Yawn*

>>>*Yawn*

Yes; you’re obviously tired and cranky; why else would you take my comments so personally?

>>>I'm sure you don't listen to music that's made by people who are considered to be musically illiterate

Sure I do; a lot of rock music fits this category, and I listen to a fair amount of it, but literate or not, its still music played on musical instruments by musicians – rap is not. The latter is as musically challenging as listening to a pair of sneakers pounding in a dryer.

>>> 'it lacks any trace of deeper insight and emotional depth.'

As I made plain by the italicized use of the word “musical,” I was not referring to the “lyrics,” but to the almost non-existent musical content.

>Obviously nobody's bothered to inform you that people have to pay licensing fees to sample other people's music.

I wasn’t addressing legalities; I was referring to artistic plagiarizing, which is not unique to rap, but rather than being influenced by another musician, or even copping a few licks, rappers descend so low as to use the actual recordings of musicians as their “instrument.” I could take an artist’s paintings, cut them up, and glue the pieces together, but the result isn’t an original work of art; it’s a hack-job by a non-artist.

>>>I've seen plenty of rap fans buying jazz & rock albums that they talked about being interested in solely because they heard samples on rap records.

They wouldn’t need to rely on samples of the real thing if the industry parasites would promote the real thing instead of the hack-job.

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