I found that very enlightening. So a sack race lies somewhere between running, walking and jumping. At the risk of sounding stupid yet again, I always thought of a sack race as being more like hopping, but on both feet together. When I was teaching, we had sack races too. We found them a very useful adjunct to the other sports, and they provided a useful and acceptable activity for those children who were not very good at running or jumping (be it the high or the long variety). To be honest, some of those children weren't desperately good at walking either, but I digress.
Groan,
Ergo, all participants of sack races are not good at running, jumping or walking, or hopping?
Hence a rapper chooses that discipline to express their art, not because they can't participate in other performing art forms, some do. But when they do they are no longer rapping.
Yes, I understand now. Thank you. Rappers rap, not because they
can't participate in other performing art forms (like singing or playing musical instruments), but because they're just not very good at them.
Is this belief based on your long and varied experience of association with rappers? Or your own ability and knowledge of music, which provides you with an appreciation of rhythm, tempo, melody, lyrics?
Or an extrapolation of your experience of organising sack races for children?
So cyclists cycle becuase they're not good at walking or driving? Swimmers swim because they're not good at running? Footballers play football because they're no good at rugby?
Your logic seems fundamentally flawed, to me.
I feel like I'm watching a Monty Python sketch, the sort where you think "I suppose it would be funny if I'd been there, but it's totally devoid of reality."
Additionally, as you perceive rapping to be some substandard substitute for playing a musical instrument or singing, does it not automatically follow that all musicians/singers can rap?
I know of a couple who can, but I can't and I know of many more that can't.