Rap As Art
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Rap As Art
INTRODUCTION The word “artist” is a term that is used to describe
professions such as painters, chefs, and even musicians. Painters use paints and
canvas as their medium, chefs use food for their delicacy, and musicians use the
words and musical instruments to create the art of sound. Even within this, the
terms of chief, painters, and musicians encompass many facets. For example, some
chiefs specialize only in pastries, some painters only work with watercolor, or
the in the instance of music, musicians who create rap music. IN ALL INSTANCES A
FORM OF CREATION HAS TAKEN PLACE BUT MODERN DAY SCRUTINY ON WHO CAN OR CANNOT BE
CONSIDERED ARTISTS HAS BANISHED RAPPERS AS ARTISTS. FIRST SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH
RAPPERS ARE MUSICIANS WHO USE FAST-PACED RHYMING VERSES ACCOMPANIED WITH A HEAVY
BEAT AND SYNTHESIZING RHYTHMS. The lyrical verses can reflect everything from
love to a drug deal gone wrong to strong opinions about social and political
issues. Lately though, rappers such as Tupac Shakur, Notorious BIG, and Puff
Daddy have been scrutinized as to weather or not their form of expression can be
considered art. Notorious BIG uses offensive language to describe his lifestyles
and his objects of desire. Many people think that the profanity and
offensiveness of his lyrics serve as reasons to dismiss him as an artists.
However, according to the definition of an artist, rappers can be considered
artists. SECOND SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH IN ORDER TO FULLY ESTABLISH THAT RAPPERS
ARE ARTISTS, THE DEFINITION OF “ARTIST” AND “ART” MUST BE ESTABLISHED.
An artist is a person skilled in a fine art, such as painting, dance or music.
Art is the creation of a work bringing about a variety of new combination of
elements in the medium (tones in music, words in literature, ect.) To further
establish the definition of artist, lets look at some examples. Painters for
instance are considered as artist because they meet the defined criteria. First,
painter must be skilled in their field. They must have an eye for color, shapes,
patterns and details. Second, painters must be able to combine different
variables to form a variation of artwork. They must be able to bring different
existing colors, textures, and shape together to create something new, abstract,
or even definitional. Third, painters must use their skill as a form of
self-expression. Colors portray their emotions and the shapes to signify a
certain mood. In these aspect painters meet all the criteria that make an artist
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