Keith Richards is not a fan of rap music. The Rolling Stones guitarist, in an interview, says that the genre is designed for "tone deaf people."

"Rap — so many words, so little said," he began.

"What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy.

There's an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another."

The interviewer, Jim Farber, noted that Richards "follows every put-down with a wink."

Yet, in 2007, Keith said, "Hip-hop leaves me cold.

But there are some people out there who think it's the meaning of life . . . I don't wanna be yelled at; I wanna be sung to.

I never really understood why somebody would want to have some gangster from L.A. poking his fingers in your face."