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Why Ben Shapiro Is Wrong About Rap

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Try 2 months of Skillshare absolutely free! http://skl.sh/12tone19 Well, looks like it's that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren't technically considered music, they're flying in the face of basically all established scholarship on the topic. And it's not like we're just making this stuff up, either: We have good reasons for interpreting music (and specifically hip hop) the way we do. They're not even complicated reasons, which makes it mystifying to me that Shapiro's been repeating this same argument for at least a decade, but still, someone's gotta explain why he's wrong and I guess that someone is me. Patreon:   / 12tonevideos   Merch: standard.tv/12tone Discord:   / discord   Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook:   / 12tonevideos   Twitter:   / 12tonevideos   Instagram:   / 12tonevideos   Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Last:    • Understanding Thriller   My first rap video:     …...more
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Why Ben Shapiro Is Wrong About Rap
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2019Oct 11
Try 2 months of Skillshare absolutely free! http://skl.sh/12tone19 Well, looks like it's that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren't technically considered music, they're flying in the face of basically all established scholarship on the topic. And it's not like we're just making this stuff up, either: We have good reasons for interpreting music (and specifically hip hop) the way we do. They're not even complicated reasons, which makes it mystifying to me that Shapiro's been repeating this same argument for at least a decade, but still, someone's gotta explain why he's wrong and I guess that someone is me. Patreon:   / 12tonevideos   Merch: standard.tv/12tone Discord:   / discord   Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook:   / 12tonevideos   Twitter:   / 12tonevideos   Instagram:   / 12tonevideos   Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Last:    • Understanding Thriller   My first rap video:    • Is Rap Music?   7 Levels of Jazz Harmony:    • The 7 Levels of Jazz Harmony   Defining Music video:    • What Even Is Music?   Script (With sources): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b... Huge thanks to our Elephant of the Month Club members: Susan Jones Jill Jones Ron Jones Howard Levine Duck Brian Etheredge Gabi Ghita Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Khristofor Saraga Len Lanphar Paul Ward Benjamin DeLillo Mitchell Fund Susan Lingenfelter William (Bill) Boston Owen Campbell-Moore Anton Smyk Chris Prentice Jack Carlson Dov Zazkis James Treacy Bagshaw Christopher Lucas Hendrik Payer Andrew Beals Thomas Morley Jacob Helwig Duncan Dempsey Patrick James Morley Tyler Leite Paul Grieselhuber Thomas Linevitch Cattus_ex_Machina David Rapoport Braum Meakes Derek Parnell And thanks as well to Corvi, Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, Oliver, Jc Bq, Adam Neely, nico, Michael Fieseler, Rick Lees, Ben LaRose, Justin Donnell, Dave Mayer, Thomás, rhandhom1, Davis Sprague, Paul Quine, Alex, Harold Gonzales, CodenaCrow, Nikolay Semyonov, Arnas, Sarah Spath, Skylar J Eckdahl, Marc Himmelberger, Chris Borland, Caroline Simpson, Daniel Gilchrist, billy roberts, Elliot Burke, Alex Atanasyan, Alex Knauth, Michael Alan Dorman, Greg Borenstein, Tim S., David Tocknell, Elias Simon, Nathan Petchell, Blake Boyd, Trevor, Michael McCormick, Lilith Dawn, Jonathan Beck, Dmitry Jemerov, Ian Seymour, Charles Gaskell, Luke Rihn, Rob Holton, Jerry D. Brown, Elliot Jay O'Neill, Elliot Winkler, Payden Nissen, Tom Evans, Fabian, Ohad Lutzky, Kurtis Commanda, James A. Thornton, Benjamin Cooper, Kevin, Ken Bauso, Max Wanderman, Brian Dinger, Hape Company, Stefan Strohmaier, Adam Wurstmann, Kelsey Freese, Shadow Kat, Adam Kent, Lee Rennie, Richard T. Anderson, Angela Flierman, JH, Jake Lizzio, Mark Feaver, Kevin Johnson, Brian McCue, Stephan Broek, David Conrad, ml cohen, Sylvain Chevalier, Darzzr, Roger Grosse, Rodrigo Roman, Francois LaPlante, Jeremy Zolner, Rowan Fox, Paper Coelacanth, Britt Ratliff, Eddie O'Rourke, Ryan, Jon Bauman, John July, Volker Wegert, Danny, Matthew Kallend, Patrick Callier, Joshua Gleitze, Emilio Assteves, Alex Keeny, Alexey Fedotov, Charles Hill, Valentin Lupachev, Joshua La Macchia, Chris Chapin, John Paul Welsh, DSM, Gary Butterfield, Niko Albertus, Luke Wever, Ben in RI, Elizabeth von Teig, Steve Brand, Rene Miklas, Connor Shannon, max thomas, Jamie Price, Kennedy Morrison, Red Uncle, Darrell Milton, Kirk Natoza, Doug Nottingham, Todd Davidson, Scott Howarth, Barendo, Smackdab, Nicholas Wolf, Ben Phillips, Paul Guziewski, Alex Larking, Scott Nystrom, Douglas Anderson, Greg Hodgdon, ZagOnEm, Robert Beach, Peter Leventis, veleum, Kevin Boyce, Lamadesbois, Aaron Zhu Freedman, Hexa Midine, Nicholas Steicke, John Polgreen, Tuna, Mathew Wolak, Mark Sibly, Killian Hackenschmidt, Blake White, Michal Mikolaj Maslowski, Todd Hauser, Phillip D Neal, Aaron Epstein, Chris Connett, Scott Frazer, Eric J Amorelli, T, Lincoln Mendell, Vincent Engler, Noam Fields-Meyer, Luke, salman karout, Carsten Lechte, Sam Rezek, Lucas Augusto, Matt McKegg, Dominic Montanez, Marcus Doyle, Beth Martyn, Caitlin Olsen, Taylor Martin, h2g2guy, Kenneth Kousen, James, Skyler, W. Dennis Sorrell, Mordredd, Melvin Martis, NoticeMK, Natalie Ferraro, Hubert Ulber, Emily Christ, Hikaru Katayamma, Adeline Mueller, Sarah Sutton, Doug Lantz, Evan Satinsky, Strattara, Stephen Shepard, Anna, Brian Cohen, James Little, and RaptorCat! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!

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