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Is rapping an art? is it poetry?

one? neither? both?

what is rap?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: For one, rapping was not created in the 1980s with hip-hop, it's been around for hundreds of years in most cultures. Classical music had its forms of rap, American folk music has a lot of rap, Johnny Cash has rapped a lot. So they've all found merit in it.

Now with Hip-Hop, a few things to remember is that it's still incredibly young, and still evolves very quickly. It was created in the early 1980s in the Block Parties of New York, and orginially was a blend of Djing, Beat-Boxing, and break dance. Rapping wasn't originally a main component, but MCs at the parties began to add in their own words over everything else to get the party stronger... and overtime became the dominent person in the show. It's sort of like Jazz. Jazz started off as a very functional music intend for dancing, but evolved over time to many things, rap is evolving now, but to what... whether we will ever see acid rap.. we'll just have to wait.