Is there anyone who thinks hip-hop has ruined the quality of music?
490120
I hate hip-hop and rap. It has ruined the quality of music and probably doesn't even deserve to be called music. There are other things affecting the quality of music. Like Hawthorne Heights and every other sub-par emo band (Aiden) on Victory Records. And the music industry cashing in on bands who used to be so good (Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, etc) and molding them into crap that girls named Tiffany and Amy will like and claim that they are die-hard fans. That's what's ruining the quality of music, not just hip-hop though it's a big part of why music today sucks so much.
165039
If you believe that is all hip hop is about that you are ignorant and i suggest you do some research and quit listening to mainstream music like 5000 cent.\n\ntalib kewli, jean grae, mos def, common listen to these artists and you will see there is more to hip hop that coonish nonsense.
1119408
Public Enemy! YEH!!!\n\nAnyways, yes, I am. Although, I'm more of a fan of revolutionary Hip-Hop myself. But then again, alot more old school had that goin' on then the mainstream new SH*t they got today.\n\n::: Peace :::
29990
Hip-hop/rap is uncreative, unimaginative crap.\n\nMoney this, cars that, ho's this, bling that and on and on and on.
1064880
Rap/Hip-Hop is often played very loudly in an effort to drown out how bad it sucks musically.
81701
The majority of the mainstream hip hop has a bad impact on teens. It glorifies guns, drugs, sex, violence in general, it's degrading to women and you can go more than 30 seconds in between curse words. Teens listening to it think that that's the best life out there and their favorite star lives like that, why can't they? They don't understand there's a lot of artistic license involved in the songs and not everything is true. I think it makes them look for the easy way out in life instead of becoming hard working & more productive. Who doesn't want the big cars & houses but how many people actually get them?
730638
Yes I hate it. Mainly because the sound quality is always terrible. Really tinny, hardly any bass at all.\nIts as if they are saying "look at me! I like jungle music and truly cheap audio equipment! Aren't I great?"\n\nAlso they are obviously scum. Usually smelly teenage boys or girls with a 'classy' curl of hair superglued to their foreheads. Always wearing at least one item of tracksuit clothing.\n\nIf I'm with a big group of people I laugh and point, sometime I do a derisory dance. If I'm on my own I shrink into the special hidden place in my mind where I have the power to make people's heads explode.
818932
It already hasn't. Rap is played out.. dead. The violence and sex of a lot of the rappers rhymes has pushed it from the mainstream.. and if White record label executives can't make money from it then it will fade away... No one even cares about Eminem anymore... The future of hip hop is a return to classic R&B like Gnarls Barkley, John Legend, hell, even Fergie is leaving the Black Eyed Peas and trying to be Gwen Stefani. Rap never recovered from the money Eminem made or the way the deaths of Tupac and Biggie overshadowed their talents.
389291
musi sucks a**! are you crazy? music is the best not only because its fun to listen to but it also helps people get through good and bad times unless you are heartless. are you? i think not but i also think you don't really listen to the songs.
526614
Well originally rapping over old music was a form of street showmanship. It's an integral part of hip/hop for the mc to brag about himself, because ordinarily he/she would be competing in front of people with another mc.  When gangsta rap became popular they took that same formula and started pretending that they actually have some criminal persona.  It is all for show, and really ruins a lot of otherwise good music. Current rap music is all smoothed out and over proccessed into this homogenized featureless sound product, which is why the radio all sounds the same. Go check out a real hip/hop show in your area, like an mc competition, and you might get a chance to hear some real hip hop.
113720
who cares rap is terrible
1074853
Rap sucks these days... 50 Cent is such a joke and he's so ugly. All these "lil" guys are retarded and need to think of more original names. "Rappers" these day aren't even rappers... you hear them on pop stations all the time, not the real rap stations. And they just use all the same lyrics and beats as old school, good rappers. Obviously, Biggie and Tu Pac were fine. I also like Ma$e, back when he was doing good music with Puffy.
76678
It's a matter of supply and demand. If the public was sophisticated enough to demand quality hip-hop, the record companies would respond to that. But they aren't, so they don't.  :-)
899240
Just because all it is, is people saying words with a boom in the back, its not melody its talking. Complete crap not music. Rap is 3/4th the word crap.
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..
1063383
Sadly most mainstream music goes like that. And the whole 'new sensation, omg they're gonna be huge' thing has being going on for YEARS. There's always music that talks about 'real' issues even if they mean real to each person or not. Anyway I say if you don't like anything out there, make your own!
452677
I like it except now someone has killed originality and it's all starting to sound the same. I use to love it but...