Re: Jewisn rap?

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

>Can rap be considered music at all?

Yes.
And if not it's still art- and as with all art (i.e. within 'rap') there's
good art & there's bad art.


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From: <music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:01 PM
Subject: RE: Jewisn rap?


> Ron wrote, a while ago:
>
> > What's a commercial simcha band?  I saw a Hassidic rapper the other
> > day.  Is that considered Jewish music?  Seriously, I'm not Jewish and
> > I'd like to know where that line is?  Do you remember the band Two Live
> > Jews?  A take-off of Two Live Crew.  Is that just considered a bad
> > parody or would you consider that music Jewish?
>
> My problem in answering the question is not with the "Jewish"; it's with
> the "music"!   Can rap be considered music at all?
>
> -- Robert Cohen, disgruntled baby-boomer
>
>
>

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