IN:\u00a0<\/strong>Partit\u00fara Irodalomtudom\u00e1nyi foly\u00f3irat, Volume: VIII. \u00a0, Issue 2, 2013 p. 75-90,\u00a0ISSN 1336-7307<\/span><\/p>\n DOI:<\/strong>\u00a010.17846\/PA.2013.8.2.75-90<\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n In Hungarian literary criticism rap has been approached mainly from two directions\u00a0so far: it has been regarded either as a distinctive oral structure or as a\u00a0genre that operates with a distinctive register. This study is an argument against\u00a0the latter approach and for the former one, and tries to unfold it in details. The\u00a0argument is based on an attempt to define rap from the perspective of prosody,\u00a0and it is followed by the opportunity to point out the difference between rap,\u00a0music and singing. in the end, it is discussing some curiosity of the medial\u00a0aspects of rap resulting from some characteristic features of literacy that emerge\u00a0in the natural orality of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n