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Ben Shapiro Tells Rapper Zuby That Rap Is Not Music

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5 years ago

September 16, 2019

Peter Dredd

Ben Shapiro Tells Zuby “Rap Is Not Actually A Form Of Music”

Political commentator Ben Shapiro had a lengthy discussion with Rapper Zuby on the latest episode of ‘The Ben Shapiro Show’ where he expressed his opinion about Rap music in general.

It appears, Ben Shapiro isn’t a fan of Rap and according to him, “Rap is not music”.

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“In my view, and in the view of my music theorist father who went to music school, there are three elements to music. There is harmony, there is melody and there is rhythm,” Shapiro explained.

“Rap only fulfills one of these, the rhythm section. There’s not a lot of melody and there’s not a lot of harmony. And thus, effectively, it is basically spoken rhythm. It’s not actually a form of music. It’s a form of rhythmic speaking. Thus, beyond the objectivity of me just not enjoying rap all that much, what I’ve said before is that rap is not music,” He claims.

Shapiro went further, doubling down his claim “From the outside, when I listen to hip-hop, I don’t hear a bunch of family-oriented messages. In fact, I hear a lot of messages that are degrading to women, I hear messages that push violence, that are disparaging to the police.”

“I hear messages that treat relationships between men and women as something disposable and glorify mistreatment of women…The art form overall, which not only has an impact on not just Black young people, but is disproportionately listened to by White young people. I don’t particularly like a lot of the messages I hear,” Shapiro added.

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Watch the full interview below :