I don't get the appeal of Rap/Hip-Hop, but then I don't get the appeal of Polka or Country, for that matter. That doesn't mean that they aren't all legitimate music or that I don't like music. A lot of what I like to listen to doesn't appeal to many other people, including some industrial metal (like Rammstein), some techno/electronic dance music (like Crystal Method), some electronic (like Tangerine Dream), some Avent Garde (like Talking Heads), some experimental (like Frank Zappa), some classical, some jazz and some rock & roll. And there are artists in each of those types of music that have met horrible ends and artists that led wonderful and inspiring lives.
A friend of mine who was an artist define art as "Whatever you can get away with." I think a definition of music would be much the same.
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