Rap music taking a dive, for lack of a positive vibe..

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By Nekesa Mumbi Moody
ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 3, 2007


NEW YORK -- Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.
The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture's negative effect on society.
Rap insider Chuck Creekmur, who runs the leading Web site Allhiphop.com, says he got a message from a friend recently "asking me to hook her up with some Red Hot Chili Peppers because she said she's through with rap. A lot of people are sick of rap ... the negativity is just over the top now."

 

[Shawn]

about time

 

[Siddhartha]

A similar thing happened with Rock and Roll and then the Beatles hit the scene.

 

[tasmanian]

I never liked it. Its the same probably 10 things said really fast over and over with some sh1tty beats.

 

[imported_bum]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
I never liked it. Its the same probably 10 things said really fast over and over with some sh1tty beats.

That's sh1tty rap, and that's why it's declining. You won't hear good rap/hip-hop anywhere unless you dig for it these days.

 

[JS80]

at least it's progressed from drug dealing and murder to cash money and hoez

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: JS80
at least it's progressed from drug dealing and murder to cash money and hoez

So bad to a little less bad.

 

[OS]

lol, it took society 30 years to figure out

 

[BUTCH1]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
A similar thing happened with Rock and Roll and then the Beatles hit the scene.

Rock n' roll was only 7 when the Beatles hit the scene, it wasn't trashy before, just
got lame after the tragic death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Shawn
about time

:thumbsup:

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Stumps

Originally posted by: Shawn
about time

:thumbsup:

:beer:

Definitely.

 

[Red Dawn]

It all sounds the same for the most part.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: OS
lol, it took society 30 years to figure out

some of us figured it out long ago.

 

[dwell]

While rap has been in essence pop music for years, and most rap consumers are white

ethugz ftl

 

[UncleWai]

<lil jon>WHAT?</lil jon>

 

[Red Dawn]

Rap was a lot more entertainng when Rappers were offing each other. Maybe they should go back to doing that.

 

[EagleKeeper]

The shock and awe effect that it was shooting for has gotten so common and repetitive.
the latest fad of it will also go down soon in flames.

 

[UncleWai]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Rap was a lot more entertainng when Rappers were offing each other. Maybe they should go back to doing that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAQWhM9Oc4

 

[Queasy]

The problem for the music industry is that Pop music and Rock N Roll suck now too.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: UncleWai

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Rap was a lot more entertainng when Rappers were offing each other. Maybe they should go back to doing that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAQWhM9Oc4

LOL, Homey got knocked the fsck out:thumbsup:

 

[randomint]

rap .. what made blacks thugs in the first place

 

[ch33zw1z]

randomint: "thugs", no matter what race, are made from the love of money...and the oppotunity to get it.

 

[compuwiz1]

There are only certain people who listen to rap these days, and most of them are making a spectacle of themselves. Rap can DIAF anytime yesterday.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Queasy
The problem for the music industry is that Pop music and Rock N Roll suck now too.

That's what happens when marketing execs write the music AND only look for pretty faces to "sing" the music. Dump them and let people of all sizes, colors, and styles who can both sing, play, and write really well, succeed!

The death of rap is something to be celebrated. Now time to kill MTV too.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Queasy
The problem for the music industry is that Pop music and Rock N Roll suck now too.

Yeah, I often wonder what's next. Rock and Roll has pretty much played itself out it seems. Rock came mostly from Rhythm and Blues, which derived much of its origin from Jazz and early Blues, but what comes after Rock? To me, Rap has always been sort of a bastard child, without any real foundation in music, but rather an oral means of expression which borrows from music. Nothing original, from a musical standpoint, coming out of Rap, and ultimately a dead end.