... from sixties lingo, the word "rap" meaning conversation (1993). In the sixties and seventies, people would have rap sessions as opposed to group counseling, for example. Rap music consists of chanted; street poetry that is often improvised (1993). The rap is accompanied by music in the disco or funk area ... of music. Social messages aside, does rap have any redeeming artistic value? Author and Harvard educated director of the University of Alberta's new Institute for Popular Music Krims, thinks so (Maclean's, 1998). He suggests that rap music is more pervasive than classical and is argu...

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