Rap beats should have more complexity

I agree musical taste is subjective, but I disagree with PRO"s logic in his statement that there are certain things which music must have. By the very nature of agreeing that something is subjective, one is saying that what it should or shouldn"t have is up to that person"s individual taste. 80s, 90s and 00s Rap is much more with the times than classical music. It"s one thing to have something not register with the decade or year. It is another thing entirely when the music doesn"t register with the century.Who can reminisce to memories of wild partying with their friends while listening to Bach or Beethoven? How many can relate to enjoying an intimate moment of love making with their significant other with that Mozart playing? Very few, if any imo.Meanwhile, 80s, 90s, 00s and present day Rap is playing a role in parties and reproductive conception likely as we speak.Old school rap may be old, but judging by sales, concert tours and radio play it"s listened to much more than classical music.For example, here is a listing of "Jump Around" being played in pop culture:In popular cultureNCAAF[edit]This song is also a tradition in college football. When a team is blowing the opponent out or a game-changing play happened, you're more than likely to hear this song.University of Wisconsin"Madison[edit]At home football games at the University of Wisconsin"Madison, students "Jump Around" to the song between the third and fourth quarters. The tradition grew out of the men's varsity swim team members playing it over a portable CD player and broadcasting via a smuggled-in megaphone to sections O and P during the games to rile up those sections...University of North Carolina[edit]In 2004, the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team began using the song as it was a favorite tune among Rashad McCants and others on the team. The song has played at the beginning of every home game at the Dean Smith Center since that year. Just as in Madison, during the song the entire student section jumps up and down. Occasionally, the players are seen dancing to the song as well. When the Tar Heels won their most recent national title in 2009, the song was played over the Smith Center loudspeakers after the final buzzer.When the Tar Heels moved a 2010 game against Texas to the Greensboro Coliseum, Jump Around was played before the opening tip of that game as well.Starting with the 2012 season, the UNC football team started playing the song before home games at Kenan Stadium.San Francisco Giants[edit]This song was played at AT&T Park during San Francisco Giants baseball games when closing pitcher Brian Wilson entered the game and warmed up.[7]New York Mets[edit]The song was played during 2011"2012 season in Citi Field when New York Mets Third-Baseman captain David Wright went up to bat.Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim[edit]This song is played at Angels Stadium during Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball games in the late innings...http://en.wikipedia.org...Very good with the times imo. Here is a description of Matisyahu as an artist:Matthew Paul Miller (born June 30, 1979), known by his Hebrew name and stage name Matisyahu ("Gift of God"), is an American reggae rapper and alternative rock musician.Known for blending Orthodox Jewish themes with reggae, rock and hip hop beatboxing sounds, Matisyahu's 2005 single "King Without a Crown" was a Top 40 hit in the United States.[1]http://en.wikipedia.org...Yes, among a medley of other things he is a rapper and Hip Hop beatboxer. He may have chosen a musical direction since then, but at that time he was beatboxing and rapping on King without a Crown.Eminem and Tupac are just two of a great ocean of Rap and Hip Hop talent, as diverse and appealing to varying tastes as one is willing to explore. Tupac was a genius whose influence and music is studied and taught at classes in Harvard, NYU and Berkley. The power of his artistry and message behind his beats and lyrics was far beyond average.http://en.wikipedia.org...Sometimes complex metaphors, entendre, breathing patterns and a wide range of varying beat developments are necessary to convey a successful message, other times succinct raw emotion, galvanizing production and clear lyrical portraits of reality many can visualize or relate to are much more powerful.Lyricism is for another debate for another time (and if invited, I can show you incredible lyricsim which isn't my focus this argument), but just to show you the wide range of Hip Hop artists and their lyrical diversity here is a graphic that made national news about rappers with the highest vocabulary, with comparisons to Herman Melville and Shakespeare:http://experiments.undercurrent.com...http://i.imgur.com...Rap is at the forefront of American musical development in it's progression of beats. I'll use a short excerpt from Nas, who briefly touches on it in Bridging the Gap."Bridging The Gap from the blues, to jazz, to rapThe history of music on this track...The blues came from gospel, gospel from bluesSlaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh'sOld school, new school, know school rulesAll these years I been voicin' my blues"http://www.youtube.com...Nas is speaking about how Rap and Hip Hop uses the entire range of African American musical genres and it's musical progression:African-American MusicAfrican-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans. Negro spirituals, ragtime, jazz, blues, house, doo-wop, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, funk, hip hop, soul, disco and technoconstitute the principal modern genres of African-American music. Their origins are in musical forms that arose out of the historical condition of slavery that characterized the lives of black Americans prior to the American Civil War. The modern genres were developed during the late 19th century by fusing European musical styles (characterized by diatonic harmony within the framework of equal temperament) with those ofAfrican origin which employed the natural harmonic series. The exceptions are hip hop, house and techno, which were formed in the late 20th century from earlier forms of African-American music such as funk and soul.Following the Civil War, black Americans, through employment as musicians playing European music in military bands, developed new style of music called ragtime which gradually evolved into jazz. In developing this latter musical form, African Americans contributed knowledge of the sophisticated polyrhythmic structure of the dance and folk music of peoples across western and sub-Saharan Africa. Together, these musical forms had a wide-ranging and profound influence over the development of music within the United States and around the world during the 20th century.The earliest jazz and blues recordings were made in the 1920s. Later periods saw considerable innovation and change. African-American genres have been highly influential across socio-economic and racial groupings internationally, and have enjoyed popularity on a global level.http://en.wikipedia.org...More music to showcarse diversity in complexity, tempo and rhythm: slow almost screwed down beat, fast horn based with high BPM and minimalistic with only spoken word and acoustic guitar.http://www.youtube.com...http://www.youtube.com...http://www.youtube.com...