Music is art. Rap is Music. Rap is art.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"The activity of art is based on the fact that a man, receiving through his sense of hearing or sight another man's expression of feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it."


Of the many definitions of art, I like this one more so than the others.

If a song can make me feel hate, if a song can make me laugh, if a song can make me feel symphaty, if a song can make me feel somebody else, then it is in relative conformity with Tolstoy and if it just so happens that this song happens to be by a rapper, then so be it. It is in my definition, art.


He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination
but he felt he was at its mercy
Which exploits my point perfectly and certainly reinforces
the reason why nobody's probably ever heard of me
Couldnt understand what I mean by ill
unless you try to translate what I print to film
This is the line of will, the circle of time
the cycle of eternity, the emergence of 1 line
Academic phonetics render critics tounge-tied
Ive personified dry humor of cum-laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content

-Canibus "Poet Laureate II"


If i'm on the highest cliff,
On the highest riff,
And if you slipped off the side and clinched on to your life,
And my grip I would neva, eva, let you down
And when these words are found
Let it be known that God's penmanship has been signed with a language called Love,
That is why my breath is felt by the deaf,
And why my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind.


- Kanye West feat. JayZ & Saul Williams "Never Let You Down"

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