Rapper = Musician or lyracist??

[Palmer]

I openly admit I do not understand rap. That 's why I posed this question here. :coffee:

BUT, I do fully understand the job of a producer, and samples, and that countless of artists use samples in other genres. I wasn't asking WHO was responsible for the "no vocal" parts of rap music, I was looking for thoughts on the premise that rappers are not "musicians". Only because, for the most part, it's their rhymes (lyrics) .. put to samples and other backing tracks (or to put it simply, someone else's melody). Just as in any genre where an artist's "instrument" may be their voice and they may not actually "play" an instrument. Are they .. then .. a "vocalist"? A talented song writer puts some amazing lyrics down on paper, then hands those lyrics to someone else to write the melody, that person is classified as a "lyricists" .. and so on ...