"Rap is not music" ???

See, that's just silly. Who are you, or who am I, to judge what is and what is not music? Maybe you don't understand this music, but that's because of your own limitations, not the music's. I listen to music from... say, Badakhshan. To me, it sounds beautiful. To someone in Dargh, it might sound beautiful. To some Eminem fan from Wichita, it probably sounds like some old crone, screeching inarticulately and slapping a drum. It's probably not the Eminem fan's thing, right? He might be heard to say something like: "That's not music, that's shit. Some old woman with no talent." But is she? Perhaps she is one of the most respected singers and dâyra players in her region. So, is he, this Eminem fan from Wichita, correct when he says "that's not music?" No. He's just ignorant of anything that's not urban and American. So his opinion on this old woman from Badakhshan isn't important to her, to me, to you, or to the world. He is wrong.

Don't be an Eminem fan from Wichita.

---Lepus Rex (up the irons:P)