The majority of Rap and the entirety of Death Metal is not music. Pro=True, Con=False.

(It would appear these debates are not comprised of people who wish to discuss the issue at hand, but to be the biggest scumbag possible, based on the response I received.) Every other musical form has some sort of inspiration behind it. The Blues are about hardship, Country is about a wide range of things, mostly morally-aligned issues, life and love, Jazz was devised to get you off your feet, dancing, and into a good mood, much like Swing. I've yet to see what Rap has represented other than self-glorification in the worst possible ways, as much of it has the effect of literally admitting one is a criminal. So, this is a form of "music" which amounts to Aiding and Abetting criminal activity. Hmm. Much of a Rap song has virtually nothing in the way of lyrics, instead, words are used immediately after one another so long as they rhyme, there is no sense or reason. The fundamental difference between music, sound, and speech, is that music has speech synchronized with the instruments in every way but physically, music has reason, speech can either have reason or not, and sound is simply auditory. When you have a whole different language involved in Rap, which no nationality or race speaks to communicate with, how can there possibly be reason, and there cannot be reason when structure of the lyrics is replaced with tandem words as long as they rhyme. Therefore, it is not a music form, it is a form of speech with sounds thrown in. Rap is a lot like a poem. Neither has to make sense and not all of them become songs. Death Metal is clearly, undeniably sound that is so overwhelmingly high in decibel as to become impossible to understand. There are no lyrics. What there is, is words being voiced in such a way as to relieve anger and break the sound barrier. The only thing separating Death Metal from other forms of Metal and other forms of actual music is the screaming. You can find the same music, not the same inclination to rupture an eardrum. Many musicians are famous for screaming. But not to make up a song entirely consistent of it. Now let me teach my friend here how profanity doesn't make a meaningful retort. "Now it's just you and me, just judging by what I see, boy needs surgery, re-position his butt cheeks back in the rear seat, cause obviously they're in the wrong place when he raps, son didn't mama ever tell you you don't use your face to crap? He can try to aggravate me, ain't gonna work for an insignificant flea, boy got an "art form" that makes me have heartburn, I've got a deck of 52 and they're all in spades, he don't seem to realize he's gonna get played, he says I don't get his style, you're friggin' right, you call yourself "tight" when you're loose as a jellyfish, make a wish cause I'm about to win this fight like Rapper's Delight, I think I'm dealing with a child who may be senile, not in his right mind. You're outsmarted, outclassed, I'm about to beat your ***, I do it to wannabe punks all the time, my net worth is diamonds in rhyme while yours is measured in pennies and dimes, it's about time I laid down the line, let's go buddy I don't hear you say nothing, what's your trade school fool, you a part-time mime?"