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I don't think a week goes by without the news of a rapper being arrested or being killed, and it is often a rapper I've never heard of. And ever notice how so many rappers have dollar signs in their name? -- Submitted By: (JayD) on March 25, 2013, 5:48 pm - (1 votes)
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Not all rap is bad.. i can take the Beastie Boys -- Submitted By: () on November 3, 2011, 11:55 am - (0 votes)
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I remember in the 80s when every adult around seemed to just *know* rock music was "Satanic". Well, rappers make rockers look like choirboys. They've destroyed America from within in ways far worse than the paranoid 80s adults ever thought rock would do. Rap is crap!!! -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on August 25, 2011, 6:38 pm - (4 votes)
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Most rap these days is mediocre and easily forgetable. Today, the selling point seems to be more about the collaborations than the music itself. -- Submitted By: (JayD) on August 24, 2011, 12:56 am - (0 votes)
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I think the East coast vs. West coast rap wars were both the climax and decline. Rap was at a peak talentwise, but the songs started entering the now familiar territory of demeaning women, talking of drugs and money. Once 2pac and Notorious were killed in the late 90's, the creativity, heart and soul disappeared. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on May 30, 2011, 12:59 pm - (0 votes)
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There is no denying that the genre has been important in terms of its influence on other musical forms, and for that I appreciate it. In fact, it's spawned some interesting hybrids like rap metal and rapcore. But I agree with most of you that when the artists set aside the social commentary and just became all about drugs and guns and pimping and the shallowest sort of materialism, rap lost its heart. -- Submitted By: (Soggy9000) on May 29, 2011, 10:35 pm - (0 votes)
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It became just another fad that was turned into commercial crap and then run into the ground. It really wasn't that great in the first place. -- Submitted By: (lrbloom) on January 8, 2011, 7:51 am - (0 votes)
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When it became mainstream it glorified all the negativity the genre was singing against. -- Submitted By: (Mr.Zimpy) on January 2, 2011, 6:51 pm - (1 votes)
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I'm going to repeat ScootyB's comment because it sums it all nicely ...This isn't music, it's just a breeding ground for the scum and trash of this world. -- Submitted By: (JustLooking) on October 10, 2010, 3:41 pm - (1 votes)
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I was okay with Rap when it was fun Sugar Hill Gang, MC Hammer, Young MC, Etc. However, it did seem that at one point in the early 90's it looked almost as if Rap was starting to die out and give way to something else when Rick Dees went on the Arsenio show and stated with confidence that Rap was 'on the way out.' That, to me seems to be the point where Rap rallied and went into overkill mode with all of the "cop-killer" and hyper-sexualized themes. I blame Rick Dees. -- Submitted By: (Friedrich_Feuerstein) on September 8, 2010, 12:32 pm - (1 votes)
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156 votes for never boned?
Obvious vote-stuffing if you ask me. -- Submitted By: (cartooner) on July 17, 2010, 7:12 pm - (4 votes)
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My brother listens to rap, but even then, most of the stuff he listens to is the stuff that was around before rap got way over-commercialized and was nothing about cars, jewlery, and hoes. Ineven agree. Don't care for it much, but the stuff from the 80's and 90's is way better than the stuff they package and label as rap or hip-hop today -- Submitted By: (PYLrulz) on May 3, 2010, 6:23 am - (1 votes)
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Wait, Eminem has a social conscience? Since when?
Honestly, I'm old enough to remember rap from the beginning and it was *always* trash, only I listened to it when I was a teen because...I was a teen. In the 80s every song was all "I'm from da hood and I kill ten people every day before breakfast and then I screw some bitches and hos then I kill some more people so don't mess with me or you're next!" Then in the early 90s the content actually improved a little but the fad of deliberately NOT rapping in time with the beat started and got on my nerves. Then in the late 90s suddenly it was all about "Look at all my bling, I'm much richer than you! And here are all the hot chicks I'm boning! Be jealous of me!" Ever since then I've pretty much stopped paying attention but even *I've* noticed it's gotten even worse. They can't even call it "rap" anymore, now it's "hip hop" since that sounds less threatening to parents of today's teens. -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on May 3, 2010, 3:14 am - (1 votes)
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When they decided to go from fighting the power to boasting about their bitches and hos in the club. Really, when social conscious was gone so was the integrity of rap. We only have Eminem left and even he is declining. -- Submitted By: (johnnydough) on May 2, 2010, 5:44 pm - (0 votes)
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Listen to Josh Groban's I am a gangster. It hit the nail on the head what rap music sounds like. -- Submitted By: (Lillith) on March 16, 2010, 7:10 pm - (0 votes)
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Calm down, Marcus. Not everybody has to agree with you. -- Submitted By: (ScottyB) on December 28, 2009, 5:47 pm - (0 votes)
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NO, NO, NO, it's NOT! It sucks ass, you idiot! -- Submitted By: (Marcus) on December 26, 2009, 10:28 am - (0 votes)
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Rap Music is still a valuable form of entertainment. -- Submitted By: (Niggarachi) on November 16, 2009, 8:07 am - (-6 votes)
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Rap is not music. I do agree that it has contributed to a decline in society. Singing about sex and violence is real clever. What kind of parents let their kids listen to this? -- Submitted By: (MCS) on November 8, 2009, 4:06 pm - (0 votes)
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Gangsta rap ruined it. There was a defining turn for me when MC Hammer came onto the scene. But it was for the better, introducing fly girls and dance flavor rap. Social awareness rap was still there and strong along with this. Then probably around 1999 as someone said, it became mostly about gangsta rap -- getting laid and hanging your thang out. The dance rap that remains pretty much melded into hip hop now with some good results. But rap as it once was had truly died and boned. -- Submitted By: (ocfernan) on October 2, 2009, 5:43 pm - (0 votes)
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