Ray Charles - "Rap is not music"

Rolling Stone to Ray Charles: How did it feel to be labeled the Genius?
"I ignored it. I’m not a genius. Art Tatum – that man was a genius. Charlie Parker was a genius..".

Bet you never even heard of Tatum or Bird.

Rap/Hip-Hop is arrogant, destructive, ugly Ebonics drivel - ignorance, the bane of genius. It is not only not music, rap is a pervasive and debilitating form of mental illness.

Here are a few practitioners of the rap genre of whom Hip-Hop lovers can be proud...

https://www.ranker.com/list/rappers-who-killed-people/ranker-hip-hop

Is there any other form of music (or "music") which can even come close to claiming this distinction?

You've got issues, buddy 

Nice Ad hominem, response, Nitwit.

Trash. Period.

I'm done here.

@stager     See ya. The fact that you referred to Ebonics - a term that hasn’t been used in 20 years - further shows how out of touch you are. Btw, I believe "nitwit" is a more ad hominem attack than anything I said. I also think it’s not used by anyone except the elf in Rudolph. Anyhow, enjoy being an insecure little bigot, but try to stay in your narrow lane if you can.

@stager 

ad ho·​mi·​nem (ˈ)ad-ˈhä-mə-ˌnem. -nəm. : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect. an ad hominem argument. : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made

- “Bet you never even heard of Tatum or Bird.” 
- “(posts a link to artists who had committed murder)”
- “Nitwit.”

- An ad hominem attack on this user’s level of musical knowledge (saying they probably don’t know about Tatum or Parker) with no evidence to base this ad hominem attack on, doing absolutely nothing to disprove any of this person’s claims with actual facts or actual intellectual argument-making, doing nothing to actually address the subject
- an ad hominem attack on the character of rap artists, conflating criminal behavior of a small sample size of the totality of such artists with musical legitimacy, as though those two things are related, and,
-  in the same sentence in which you accuse someone of an ad hominem attack, your rebuttal is simply insulting his intelligence by calling him, “Nitwit.”

If avoiding flagrant, egregious hypocrisy is at all a concern for you, it is best to avoid accusing someone of something you literally just did in a big, big way.  
Just something to consider.