youre on a rap forum saying rap isn't art tho?

where'd i say that

i said the medium is not necessarily the form

s*** got on my nerves too

these niggas gotta go dawg

It’s only art if it’s packaged and distributed as a rap song is what I’m gathering

To be fair, Carti isn't doing that anymore so can't blame him he just filling a gap in the market.

lol

He always been

Still he king

like literally only in hip-hop you’ll hear a nigga say playing an instrument isn’t an art-form

modern day hip-hop fans jesus christ yo

lol

not very Marxist of that guy at all

once again rap and hiphop is the greatest art form there is in my opinion

but the medium does not automatically determine the form

Lil booty skirt

It’s really simple actually

Art is in the intent of the artist

If a dude is sitting there spitting a random freestyle just bullshitting and he thinks it’s art, it’s art

If a kid is scribbling on a piece of paper bored in class and they think it’s art, it’s art

yeah i never disagreed...

intention bro

bro literally proved what i said

Not to mention, how much art has been created over the years with no intent in mine?

Not every piece of art is something that was thought about and planned before hand

When Gunna was teaching lil baby how to rap was he making art or was he teaching him the medium for him to then use and make art himself

Pink tape was fine, I dont think it was great but I also dont think it was detrimental to his career

Define what you mean by intention

Uzi unreleased s*** on yt goes way harder i b so confused when they finally drop

Compiling everything online b annoying tho these days

someone sitting at home playing around with bars to add into a rhyme book for later does not have expression on their mind. They have technical refinement on their mind, finding flows, rhymes, and inflections that they are not looking to express, but to develop, save, memorize for the later act of expression

obviously with guitars, rapping, the paintbrush, the pen, the intended use is artistic expression, and it is the final use, but it is not the one and only way it can be used. they can be used to develop skill upon the final execution of the form. finding strokes, words, chords, etc to keep sitting in the back of the mind

art is abstract and we can define the term of expression as abstractly as well. an exercise of rhyme in the park with a friend, the booth of a recording studio, a cypher for a tv show. all are forms of expression

but, we can all agree that my example wasn't expression, since it wasn't mean to be consumed and processed by an audience (the artist is a member of their own audience as well), but rather used to define and refine the form before its presentation.

maybe someone could define that moment of technical refinement as expression. those strokes, words, rhymes, chords could strike nerves of their creators even in their miniscule form as they're saved for a larger work.

i just don't see it that way

Or maybe he was just never that good to begin with and Father Time just proved that

andrewnougat

ur jus a h8r