The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14610   Message #128070
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
26-Oct-99 - 01:26 AM
Thread Name: Is Rap Folk?
Subject: RE: Is Rap Folk?
Wellll, Katlaf, isn't generalizing at the heart of defining categories like Folk and Rap? I could certainly say that Pete Seegar stands pretty squarely as an example of Folk, and that The Insane Clown Posse are fairly well entrenched in the Rap camp, that they are generally representative of those types of music, and say that there is almost no common ground between the two, and I feel that I would be quite accurate. Indeed, Queen Latifah and Bob Dylan may move into the gray area that lies between, but I believe that that gray area is at least a mile wide, so wide as to render any inclusion of Rap into Folk Music at least as ridiculous as my other (See First Post) examples.

And Catspaw, I would also strongly suggest you paint Don't Milk! on the flanks of all your bulls, for the safety of all your loveable but naive sidekicks.