Do you think contemporary Rap and Hip-Hop will stand the test of time?
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.
1111711
I hope so, i love the 80s, although i was born in the 90s, thats what happen when people in ur fam tell u about things lol.
767444
Yes. Everything that is NON rap.\n\nNext?
828625
I hope not...The new thing in hip hop is to claim you are retiring then come back ... so probably not. \n\nI want him to take some time and get back to the roots of his talent. He has been putting out garbage lately.
437955
im sorry but it would really help if you said what type of music you listen to. I really like all the 50 cent music lately. but thats just rap.
120891
Depends, if its a rap, hip hop station no way, ALMOST anything else sure
641307
AHHH THE GOOD OLE' DAYS OF RAP
138150
No it didn't. When I hear something that sounds like old school funk now it's most often called Neosoul. I love the sound of it & it's coming back more & more. It reminds me of Chaka Khan, the Gap Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, etc.\n\nI have to disagree with you some on rap though. When I was listening to it (back in the day) much of it had some great, dancable music, & carried social & political messages. It was groundbreaking in the urban culture, poetry to music. Much of the rap I hear now is very angry, or over-sexed, & profanity-laced. I miss old school rap, & I love gospel rap (yes it does exist & yes it is tight)!
1017213
When you look at the music created between early 1980-1987, there was a genre of musical talent I believe the world will never see again. \nWhere has this talent gone?\n\nThe 90's music was what you listened to when your 5 seconds short of suicide, and the 70's music was simply 1-dimension heavy rock(for the most part)\n\n60's music was fast-beat 3 minute songs designed for AM radio\n\nAnd the 'music' today? Horrific...to say the least.\n\nThe 80's were a great era.
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 :::
857279
The 90's were it mate, to much hip pop hop rubbish at the moment.\nOnly dance music has had a good few years in my eyes.\nLove the 90's man, guitar music was at it's best, lost interest in lots of the music nowadays, even indie and rock stations are crap.\nAnd in the 90's we had a proper little Ska revival, crack on 90's.
920078
Hip hop before hip op....classic
936028
depends if its mainstream or not. Mainstreams like those you can find on MTV are commercial junks.\n\nAnyway, I like new underground music but old music is still classic.
990385
It does, with it's New Order offshoots. I really don't mind though, I'm 32 so it's interesting to see things come around full circle. The artists are little more talented now, but there isn't the edge there that attracted me so much when I was 14.
178677
I never was a fan for hip hop, but I think the big difference between the songs today and a decade before is that rappers used to make music out of the language and used many more rhymes.
928689
Sure, it will happen... it always does. Sometimes things take time and sometimes things seem to explode like Nirvana did. Just think back to a few years ago when the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC ruled the charts and airwaves. Music is slowly returning to rock... Even Rap and Hip Hop is loosing hold in the music scene. Once one band emerges the record labels will always counter with clones but things are already getting better... the bands that you mentioned...  Panic!At the Disco, Fallout Boy, My Chemical Romance, they all pretty much have no real talent but at least they are borrowing sounds from bands that we can all respect. I think that the Internet and downloading music like we do now is destroying the big record companies... things are going to revert back to the early days of rock. There are going to be less and less AOR releases and more singles... just like bands used to put out 45's with a B-track. Artists will put their own sounds out there and market themselves. Somewhere out in the world there is a hotbed of new sounds and we all wait for something fresh. Remember this though, there are not too many of us out there that would say no to a big fat record deal, everyone likes a roof that doesn't leak.
885432
It depends on era & credibility. There really isnt one that is the best. For example, if you put Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap & KRS-ONE in a room, who is the best? Most people who follow hiphop knows that these 4 MC'S have totally different styles & can wreck s**t all day. As far as todays hiphop, it's not a lot of people who could be the best. It's hard to answer.