>There's SO much that can be written about flow,
>multi-syllable rhymes, the different rhythmic aspects of
>various rhyming schools etc.


I can write out a Billie Holiday phrase or ad lib on sheet music. Can you write out a Hip-Hop rappers phrasing? There's no NOTES there. That's what I'm saying.



>
>In ter4ms of the production, there4's a shitload that can be
>said as well regarding what was sampled during various eras,
>*how* it was sampled, chopping, sampled breakbeats vs.
>drummachines, filtered basslines etc.
>


Ah...but when I'M doing it, I'm just "manipulating data"? That's what the consensus was in my "computer music" post a while back. People swore up and down that using software to create music wasn't "music", but when it comes to Hip-Hop, it is?

*red card*




>I don't see any diffe4rence from any other type of music
>really, it's just that the vocabulary is missing amongst the
>scholars-I suspect like imcvspl that the musical aspect of
>Hip-Hop never really attracted those people.

could be.


>
>
>EDIT:BTW, writings on metal is somewhat similar, especially
>the more extreme forms. It's always "Why are teenagers
>attracted to this dark and evil music and why do they want to
>mosh and hurt eachother" and yada-yada. Ever since I was a
>kid, I wanted to do an indepth book about the evolution of
>riffs from old blues and swingjazz to the most extreme de4ath
>metal. Maybe I'll write it when I'm retired...

But at the end of it all, Metal Musicians are playing NOTES on INSTRUMENTS. It can be notated, written out and given to other musicians to be played. THAT'S my point.