Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rap opera


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The result was   keep. j⚛e deckertalk 00:34, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Rap opera

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The topic easily fails WP:GNG. Koala15 (talk) 01:23, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:47, 8 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. I recently rewrote Rock opera, and I came across references to rap operas, which are very briefly discussed in that article.  For evidence of further coverage, I found this article at the New Statesman and this article at Star-News. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:14, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per sources found by NRP. Bearian (talk)
 * Keep. Evidently there are rap opera companies, artists who describe their genre as "rap opera", and pages devoted to rap opera lyrics. Who knew? Not I, till I did some cursory googling. The many reviews of specific rap operas may include descriptions of the genre. Here's a book, The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (MIT Press), that gives some definition of the genre. My impression, though, is that the article will be stubbish. Everybody seems to know what a rap opera is and to throw the label around, but like many contemporary forms of expression, nobody's felt the need to pin it down as a critical genre. It may be that at present the article takes shape as an introduction to a list of notable rap operas. Cynwolfe (talk) 20:37, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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