Rap. That strange genre of rhyme without reason, meter without melody, and peculiarly unpoetic poetry. Its supporters consider it the Übermensch of the lyric, and its critics consider it sub-musical. Regardless its musicality, however, it has become one of the most popular genres in the last thirty years, reaching a pedestal of profanity far above most other genres. This being the case, we decided to include a rap in We Lost The Musical, for the sake of all you hip-hoppers out there.
But this is no ordinary rap. This is a Rap Battle. Not only that, but the participants are none other than Sawyer, an auto-tuning country singer, and Ben Linus, a bell-bottomed disco star. And neither of them are black.
What.
Of course this seemed like an awesome idea at the time. And of course, now the musical is completely written -- except for the rap. No surprises there.
This might be the biggest challenge of the whole musical: two extremely indie, somewhat nerdy white boys attempting to write a rap.
Time to get rhyming.
Wow, good luck with that.
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