Is rap considered music?

[Blanche_Minim]

i agree for the most part but....

i love Eminem...
his albums are a soundtrack to his life for the most part,
sure theres the typical cliched rap crap at times, but the albums are a timeline of his life from childhood to whatever current events affect him at that time...

he actually had a real bad upbringing and he uses his words as therapy to move foreward, and his mum played a huge part in that part of his life!

I understand he had a bad upbringing. I lived a good childhood, but a terrible teenagehood. If I am a music artist (which I want to be), I will make dozens of Death Metal and Rock and Pop songs talking about universal grief and sounding more poetic justice than whining about what didn't work out 10 years ago.

Now the Pop songs, most of them are love songs and about loving one another (which shows my happy side), for example, the Carpenters (I need a female partner who can sing), but once in a while I will be in Elton John or John Lennon mode talking about miserable life.

My plan has not materialized yet, but I guarantee you it's good stuff.