Boris pwns Sazari (on video)

[OGPhilly]

[Boris Johnson]

[OGPhilly]

I'm just being honest franz. I love hip hop music and I think anyone who assesses it as you do in 2012 is very out of touch.

[exploited]

Spoken word is considered art by tons of people. And being able to use your voice as a means of complimenting a beat is harder than you think. Try it sometime.

[Boris Johnson]

[Boris Johnson]

[OGPhilly]

So what if it's not the "hardest" thing to do? Is the hardest feat necessarily better as a listener?

In reality though, it's not even comparable to other kinds of music in terms of difficulty. Big Daddy Kane certainly couldn't compose any great classical music, but I bet the worlds greatest classical composers couldn't rap as well as him.

[OGPhilly]

So what if it's not the "hardest" thing to do? Is the hardest feat necessarily better as a listener?

In reality though, it's not even comparable to other kinds of music in terms of difficulty. Big Daddy Kane certainly couldn't compose any great classical music, but I bet the worlds greatest classical composers couldn't rap as well as him.

[exploited]

[OGPhilly]

Hip hop is still a young-ish genre. It's been around for about 40 years, and closer to 30 in a form that the casual listener would recognize. Much like jazz music, it's gone/going through stages of rejection by the establishment, ie: "it's not really music", "it takes no talent", "ok its music but it can never compare to other genres", etc.

It's also still a genre finding itself. Since it evolved in a kind of unique way, the production favors sampling and interpolation to live instruments, but I think in time you'll find hip hop acts which are done with all live instruments (such as the roots) to be more and more common.

A friend of mine recently remarked to me that playing an instrument is like painting and making a hip hop beat is like using photoshop. I'd reject that derogatory analogy and say producing a hip hop beat is more like making a mosaic.