Is hip hop the only genre where the lyrics matter and the music is whatever?

Is hip hop the only genre where the lyrics matter and the music is whatever?

Because I never see any threads about hip hop music, only rappers.

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I don't know, I value production WAY more personally in hip hop. Kanye is one of my favorites but it isn't really because of his lyrics

I mean yeah, they're the most important aspect of hip hop since the background music only exists to keep a flow for the lyrics.

This.
Well, except his recent stuff which is awfully produced.

Dawg, what about country? Or singer songwriter?

Rap, for a medium that places so much emphasis on text, is radically lyrically underwhelming. Nothing that rappers produce approaches poetry, or even the efforts of the best lyricists of rock music (still a far cry from poetry). They cling to tired themes, the most cloying of which is the braggadocio element (understandable at rap’s genesis, but basically nonsensical in the internet age). Not even the rhythmic element of rap music is interesting, lacking the metrical malleability of earlier generations of black musicians. Overall, a crippled medium lurching towards irrelevancy and death.

>Reading lyrics like a book
>absolutely no feeling for groove etc.

Just White people things

Producers are about as famous as rappers nowadays

Who is Dr. Dre, dj Premier, dilla, madlib

that is an accurate description of mainstream hip hop, idk about hip hop as a whole though. You need to dig deep, anyways nowadays nobody has the attention span required to listen and pay attention to lyrics.

Kendrick Lamar's lyrics are pretty poetic though.

Shit, even folks like timbaland, 40, juicy j, metro boomin, mikewill and dj mustard are household names. Not to mention one of the most famous rappers started as a producer

>Who is

it's Who ARE

you illiterate nigga, learn to conjugate

>metro boomin, mikewill and dj mustard
literally who

IF YUNG METRO DONT TRUST YOU IMMA SHOOT YOU

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dr. dre are a billionaire

No, there is more to hip hop than rap

Because Yea Forums are sheep who only regurgitate Fantano

What about folk music

Country has a very distinct sound which is necessary. Singer/songwriter means nothing.

If you mean traditional folk then its vital. If you mean folk rock like Dylan then his music sucks as much as his lyrics anyway.

i think you are just too lazy to search for real poetic rappers

this

>is radically lyrically underwhelming
word salad

>words arent for carrying meaning but for funny sounds
Apes, everyone.

How about "completely underwhelming lyrically" or is that also too complex for you fucking hip hop retards?

>singer/songwriter means nothing
Except an entire music industry disagrees with you, you contrarian fuck

>Dylan
>sucks
hahahahahaha goddamn you people are a living meme

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>Except an entire music industry disagrees with you, you contrarian fuck
Its not a genre, its just people in different genres who write and sing music

Yeah except 9/10 times a "singer/songwriter" is going to be performing in the folk/Americana/R&B vein, so that's what people are referring to

So there's your genres.

Most important to least important
>Production quality/sampling
>Actual beats
>Rapping quality
>Lyrical content

Yeah bro I just got this SICK new truck check out the important things to me
>Has a SWEET paint job
>Muffler sounds fuckin BOSS
>Leather seats are HELLA comfy, dude
>What? Does it actually drive alright? Who the fuck cares?

This is you

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Not an argument, good attempt though