Rap is the worst genre of music.

My opponents argument rests on the fallacy of faulty generalization. Mainly that the sample of rap music he has selected is degrading and aweful, and thus generally speaking most Rap music has those traits. Problems With This Argument:Essentially, my opponent is trying to make an argument to have it both ways, first, he is trying to account for a BOP he knows he cannot prove, that all rap music is degrading, and furthermore, that simply because the music he selects is like that, that generally speaking, most rap music is like that. He cannot have it both ways, because this means he filled my BOP for me, that if I find one genre worse than Rap, or show that rap is not the lowest standard in music, then I win, which he has done for me. Opponent, you cannot have it both ways, either rap music is awerful or it is not! And thus I have already won. However ... Strawman!My opponent compares rap music to a football team. I do not know how to tell my opponent this, but newsflash! Rap and football are not the same, and thus the argument does not make sense. Rap is individualistic (not team based) and is an art. Football is teambased and is a sport. Thus, rap is NOT like a football team. Try again. Rap has No Positive Message(See videos) http://www.youtube.com...http://www.youtube.com...http://www.youtube.com...What? Plenty of positive messages in their music! Nas is advocating for children to go to school, in fact most rappers are making it cool to be successful now! It's cool to get into business for rapping, and it's cool to try and make money and to make investments. And sometimes, rap has one distinct advantage over other forms of music: you learn lessons from the school of hard knocks you cannot learn yourself. Or at least you learn without putting yourself through harms way. The life lessons of 50 cent, when your having a tough day, just think this man got shot 9 times and still lived. You can appreciate life way more now! Sometimes you gotta take lessons from other people, and this is what they offer. And yes they do rap about presteige, whats wrong with saying "I am successful! And guess what? You can be too! All this can be yours!"? The music is meant to be relateable, and claiming they more often than not choose to rap about smoking, or drinking, or girls, and that's it is a bare assertion fallacy. They do but they also rap about school, tough lives, lessons, experiences, etc... Beatles:Just because you say their better musically does not mean they actually are, again bare assertion fallacy. And if anything your showing a correlation to controversial music and success, so was Pink Floyd, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Prodigy, Slayer, Ozzy Osborne, Rage Against the Machine, The Kingsmen, Judas Preist, Elvis Presley, N.W.A, etc... Therefore, we've already had this conversation, espescialy if you were in the 50's and saw Elvis, you would have thought it was disgusting him shaking his hips and claimed he had no musical talent, while saying "Now Lead Belly .. HE had talent...". It's all the same, Rap is just a different genre of music, but like Elvis, and all the predecessors before Rap, not all of it is of low standards like you claim as history shows. Dance @$$ and Make Her DanceBoth those soungs are actually pretty good .. THANKS! =) And they're dance songs .. whats wrong with them? They glorify bums. You don't like girls bums? They want you to dance or "shake your @$$" and how dare you! Not all girls are wh*res! Some just like to shake some booty!Ain't it Funny the Best Rapper is White and the Best Golfer is Black? Eminems list of legendary stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org...Listed top 100 greatest artists of all timeMost streams in historyMTV claimed 7th biggest Icon in pop music 200 nominated awards, got 75, and even did something no one else has ever done: dissed the grammys and they gave him one on the song he made fun of them for!Best rapper alive by VibeSoundscan claims he is the number 1 selling artist of the decadeThe list goes on and on .. and on ... and on ... care to try and claim rap sucks again? Vs DeathmetalWhat proof is there that the dude screaming for Zao is better than .. me? I'm still waiting for my opponent to make a freestyle like he said because it was easy. And finally, your right all music is a form of expression, but you contradict yourself here, if that expression is good, and rap is a genre of that expression, then the logical argument follows that rap is obviously good music then, otherwise, you cannot claim all good music has expression, then exclude rap simply because you do not like it. You have to focus on the use of ceteris Paribus here (all things held equal)At least rappers ... respect their dead! That's right! Talk about of poor quality at least rap does more good than harm, like the suicide of Per Ohlin for example, where bandmates use his dead body as an image on their album! And even encouraged him to committ suicide! Talk about low standard. And if a higher standard is singing, then screaming id obviously not that high a standard when all things are considered, hell even in rap some rappers sing! http://en.wikipedia.org...