Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - Amusia

melody and harmony. simple.
hence why i dont consider rap real music, it's a dude talking over a drum beat :p

You forgot rhythm. The most vital element in my opinion.

This video should have strengthened the idea that everything is relative. Rap is not real music to you, even it includes melody harmony and rhythm. However, the Beatles would be just noise to sufferers of amusia, and Mozart would be nonsense. Your criteria is not absolute. Music is like everything else, and the beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I can see why some people don't consider rap music real music. But I personally think it is.

Everytime there is a new type of music, people can be critical of it either by saying it's terrible or by saying it isn't music at all.

Same things can be said about jazz music when it first came out, because people back then call it the devil's music since it used certain dissonant chords that weren't conventional.

Rap isn't very conventional for this day but it takes getting used to.

Oh my god it must be terrible. Music is such a big part of my life, my source of inspiration and an instrument to calm myself down or cheer myself up. I just can't imagine people not hearing music harmony or rhythm. Fortunately, there are very few people like this.

But I really enjoyed a joke someone made about major labels' executives xDDDD

the sames goes for me, but if you dont know what you are missing, you cant miss it:P

You're right. :)
My mother isn't amusic and still hates music. That's what is terrible I guess xD

burf69 just won the "thread"

nothing new to see here.

HAHAHAH good one!

Well, Jeff Beck is Jeff Beck. Some cats can stand him. Some can't stand him.