Music is a craft. Music can be treated equally, but music will never be equal. You can't compare a Mahler symphony to a hiphop song written by an 11 year old boy, just like you can't compare a factory-made plastic cup to the Taj Mahal, and if you do say that the plastic, manufactured cup is equally artistic to the Taj Mahal, I am sorry, we obviously have diametrically different opinions about art and I am not willing to discuss with anyone about Art, because we'll never end anywhere, and it's not to say that my opinion is correct and I refuse to talk about it with anyone else because everyone is wrong, but it's just that Art is perceived differently by different people, and if you are one of the people who think of it differently than me, then there isn't much to say about that.
There should be a distinction between things which are made to sell and things which are made to tell (not that all Art "tells" things, but it's just that I liked the pun
).