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Originally Posted by Mike33
As for hip-hop/rap attempts at or mergers with 'real' music, it should probably stop. It rarely works because rap isn't 'real' or traditional music by any means. It's street theater and poetry put to a 4/4 time signature looped breakbeat with samples and sprinkled with jingles. Most of the best raps have been done using these standard features, not live instrumentation or marriages to other genres. From what I've heard, it seems to work sparingly and only if the non-rap genre is the principle component of the song (eg. some of RATM's stuff, Aerosmith's Walk this Way featuring Run DMC).
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That's correct, rap used to be a form of poetry, a form of cultural expression of those who couldn't play instruments or didn't had money to buy any - most importantly it was an underground thing when it started.
Noone ever expected it to grow as big as those baggy pants they're wearin.
Do you know how those huge baggy pants came to existence? Kids from the ghetto were wearing their uncle's pants cause they were too poor to buy new ones, so now you have billions of baggy pants in the streets sold for 200 USD / piece to remind you on those, who couldn't afford any.