When will rap/hip hop just die already?
472335
I believe that todays commercial rap will be compared to the hair-bands of the 80's in the eyes of history. Flashy clothes and lyrics that just tell about all the partying and the women they have around them.\n\nRap and Hip/Hop will never die, there will be a new-wave that will take over much like the grunge movement of the 90's in rock. Wait and see.
182321
ROCK-always! rap is crap without the c
374297
Oh god, as quick as possible!\n\nBut seriously, rap grew very strong in our pop music culture (where i assign thw words "pop music" with popular music). It doeasn't mean that the majority of people like mass gansta-rap productions, with mass of jewelery on necks, naked "chicks" and guns/drugs/similar. Those things are breaking the common limits, and are staying on the top only becouse of that. Well, I don't know if many people would call that type of art "beutifull" or "catchy", but surely controversial. However, those things are slowly dying out. The first major step was the ban of the game "25 for Life" in UK, where in this game you were playing as gangsta-type person, killing everyone on your way to revenge.\n\nI hope that people will get bored of controversions, and will want to go to the normal, quite calm life, and start to appriciate things that we really need, and that should we respected.
311890
I couldn't agree more, look at the music industry, people like.. 50 cents, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson (oh please don't tell me with a voice like that she has talent!), Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, blah blah blah.. Crap music everywhere and I could go on for days!! I think good music will extinct in a few years time, that's really sad..
807676
i've only heard it very briefly on TV for a promo it was HELLLLLLA annoying!\nwhy does it seem that rap music these days are biting off of children's music?  it's so unoriginal and retarded.  i love rap & hip-hop, but this is just pathetic!
744607
Hopefully ANYTHING BUT Rap and C&W :D
641307
AHHH THE GOOD OLE' DAYS OF RAP
889954
hey i just got into rap myself about two years ago...i came  form a very religious home where it wasn't allowed...but it really isn't all bad...some of it is just shameless excess(bling-bling, hoes, and fast cars)...which i really don't like...but i suggest you buy some Tupac albums as well as the roots,  and common...their songs usually have a message and some nice beats...you will get tired of hearing about hoes and money after awhile...their music is really refreshing!
173605
Tupac is truly dead. The thing is he wrote soooooooooooooooooo many songs while he was alive that his music can still be released, one album after another, for about 5 more years.  When he died in '96, his mother said there was enough for about 15 years, and we're 10 years into that.  Prince is another artist who writes sooo many songs so quickly that he has said he could die today and the songs in his music vault could be released in albums every six months for the next 50 years.
775998
I say mainstream rap music has been falling off since '95 (personally, I think the beginning of rap music's decline coincides with the moment Master P came onto the scene).  Since then, the mainstream media has been increasingly oversaturated by a lot of cookie-cutter emcees (if we can even call them emcees) and candy rappers who spout garbage because right now, they're the ones bringing their record companies the most money. Some, like me, might be old enough to remember this and some might not be, but back in the late 80's and early to mid 90's there was a lot of talent, variety and substance in rap. You could turn on the radio and hear conscious (as in socially/politically conscious), gangsta, old-school, jazz-infused, comical and storytelling styles of rap back to back in one sitting (or one car trip). THAT is what's sorely lacking in mainstream rap right now - talent, variety and substance. There's nothing to choose from anymore, kinda like going to McDonald's and seeing nothing but fries on the overhead menu.\n\nThere are still some good emcees out there who don't fit the "cookie-cutter" mold and have something positive to say, but unfortunately we rarely (if ever) see them in the mainstream media. A lot of the real emcees have been put on the backburner or are stuck in the underground circuit because for the most part, greedy record companies and good ol' Corporate America have flooded the market with whatever "trend du jour" makes them the most money (which, unfortunately, glorifies the negative/controversial). It's sad, but for the most part, neither the record companies nor the rappers do it for the love of the music anymore.  It's all about that almighty dollar.\n\nGood thing I was introduced to underground hip hop a few years ago. Otherwise, I'd still be sittin' here with Midnight Marauders on repeat, reminiscing about the good ol' days - lol.
511789
In my opinion I think RnB, Hip Hop and Rap in general are way overrated. But unfortunately that seems to be all you can see on tv and hear on radios these days. To these genres have nothing to do anymore with the initial idea of making music.
1146738
for shelby; i say heeeeyyy yeah yeah yeah yeah, heeeyyy yeah yeah yeah, i say hey! whats goin on?\n"stop the rock" by bender or somethin like that is awful, and any rap song that has lyrics like "i be f***in b**ches all day you know i gotta get paid, niggas wanna f*** wit me y'all gon end up 6 deep" (i.e. most of them) is also garbage.
724924
Hip Hop sucks! We need more East-West drama and more shootings! Why is Tupac gone but Diddy gets pimp out the world with bad close and awful girl groups?
460072
Negative rap will run its course.  People will see over time once they get tired of the shock value that a good portion of it is just a bunch of over blown, over glorified wanksta lies.
918136
Try look up Eminem and 50 Cent lyrics.\n\nWhat Habin8or said was completely unacceptable! I do know everyone is entitled to their own opinions but recently I have been seeing a lot of people being unfair to the rap and hip-hop genre. People are going around talking like the music is pure shit and it's not! Rap and hip-hop is just another expression of feelings and actions through music.
141426
Rap is over-rated. It is too commercialized to make money, and there is no heart in it.
806295
dead.  what a loss for the music world\nb