Is RAP Music? (Saturday, March 3, 2018)

Here's the short answer, no, and it wasn't even intended to be music and never will be. Take a look back at the Cassette Tape revolution of 1950 (7 years after the invention of the cassette tape). In 1950 people finally realized that reading books was a waste of time. At first people began burning books (because they thought fire was more useful than knowledge), but once the illiteracy rate grew to 90%, they soon realized burning books was a mistake. Because watching movies wasn't cool in the 1950's, books were compiled onto cassette tapes. For the next 50 years, people received all of their knowledge from the Sony Walkman and cassette tape. Shortly after the Great Movie Revolution movies became the new trend and the Sony Walkman died. Thanks to movies, you could finish an entire book in an hour or two (whether it was missing information or accurate to the book is a different question). In late 2007, a few kids came across a Sony Walkman and some Dr. Seuss books on cassette tapes. Because these kids were uneducated, they believed that the Dr. Seuss Complete Gold Collection on Cassette was music. Word spread, and eventually everyone was jamming to Dr. Seuss books on cassette. Eventually poets began releasing their poems to cassette and kids mistakenly thought it was music, and by 2010 everybody was jamming to poems. Anyways, RAP is not music, it is just a spoken poem.

-Tyler Johnson