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Will you stop editing gdi

i mean you have the HAMILTON musical which is like the crowning achievement in hip-hop

Tupac was actually one of the rare musicians who was a decent actor too. Gridlock'd is a great movie.

Originally posted by walshy
Will you stop editing gdi

You're hysterical.

Originally posted by walshy
It's due to lack of gun control in the states, a problem that the white man implemented and is highly unlikely to change for a very long time

Originally posted by Surtur
Tupac was actually one of the rare musicians who was a decent actor too. Gridlock'd is a great movie.

Originally posted by Surtur
Tupac was actually one of the rare musicians who was a decent actor too. Gridlock'd is a great movie.

#BeingWhiteIsAwesome

Originally posted by Ax3l
you're forgetting about DMX

Originally posted by Scribble
He wasn't a musician

/isn't

Originally posted by Scribble
He wasn't a musician

I guess it depends how you define "musician". For instance on wiki:

A musician (or instrumentalist) is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music may also be referred to as a musician. Did he compose or conduct? Nope, but he did perform.

daft punk is my favorite musician

Originally posted by Surtur
I guess it depends how you define "musician". For instance on wiki:

A musician (or instrumentalist) is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music may also be referred to as a musician. Did he compose or conduct? Nope, but he did perform.

He didn't produce music or play any music, and rapping is generally amelodic so it's highly debatable to say that he ever 'performed music'

Although rapping is rhythmic, and rhythm is important to music

But I really wouldn't consider him a musician. He didn't play or compose music, his producers did that for him

Rappers are more akin to poets than musicians, their art is merged with music and relates to it, but I wouldn't say they counted as 'actual' musicians. Which isn't to say they aren't talented or anything, and a lot of rappers actually can play instruments, but just being a rapper alone is closer to being a writer/performer than to a musician

But people consider rap to be music though and he has performed songs.

Yeah hip-hop is the name of the genre, the songs are put together by producers (almost always musicians) and the vocals are performed by the rappers

If you have a collaboration between a poet and a guy with a piano, and the guy with the piano plays music whilst the poet reads rhythmic poetry, that does not make the poet instantly a musician. He is performing as part of a collaboration between words and music, not performing music.

y'all will never understand hip-hop until you watch the get down on netflix so quit playin

Eminem

I'm not generally a fan of Baz Luhrmann but The Get Down looks quite good

John cena was getting jeered at wrestlemania 22 crazy to think he's been getting booed for so long