If Rappers Are Musicians, I'm A Novelist

My sister was watching TRL a few days ago, when I was walking by and happened to hear one of the VJ's talking to Missy Elliot about her new album. One of the first things she asked was, "Who's on it?" This is the fundamental difference between rappers and real musicians. The rest of the musicians who are currently working on new projects are trying their darndest to BE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO PERFORM ON THE ALBUM. Rappers, on the other hand, are constantly getting new people with whom they will work, making it that much easier to complete the album. Musicians want the record to be an artistic offering from them alone. Rappers want to have their picture on the front and their voice absent from the album itself. Plus, don't even get me started on these "brilliant" producers. An eight-year-old mongoloid with Garageband and ten extra minutes in his day could come up with the beat for the next big hip-hop recording. The worst part is, most of their samples come from real musicians' songs, anyway! I mean, would people have allowed Wagner to steal eight bars from Paganini and repeat them endlessly while he read his own ridiculously trite poetry over it? I don't think so. That's why rappers are no more musicians than are baby chimps or people who have whatever it was that Forrest Gump had.