I agree with those that say some of the older stuff is good. While I've listened to only a little, it's like 10 000X better than the complete and utter SH!T that's being produced now! Sure, there's one or two songs that are good, but that can be said of any genra.
Overall, though, rap is the utter bottom of the music barrel.
-- Jack
Rap is art for those who lack artistic taste and talent, music for those who can?t carry a tune, poetry for those who lack basic linguistic skills... It is roughly to freedom of expression what S&M is to romance...A lot of rap is frankly pitched to what the Victorians called the criminal classes... The mission of shocking the bourgeoisie has passed from the avant-garde to the common thugs.
-- Joseph Sobran, Milwaukee Journal