Is rap dead?

Music genres as broad as rock and rap dont really die. But rap is in a weakened state due to all these strip hop dirty south sh***y rappers taking over.

And as long as 2Pac keeps releasing albums from the grave, rap isnt totally dead.hillelslovak

LOL, yeah... irony doesn't even begin to describe the fact that he's releasing an album in 2007 when he died 10 years before.

Check out Kanye West, Talib Kweli, and Common, aswell as underground rappers.Also lets see if guys like DMX, Nas, and Jay - Z make anymore good albums.I think Jay - Z has become a pop star, though.jimmygrace

Check out Kanye West, Talib Kweli, and Common, aswell as underground rappers.Also lets see if guys like DMX, Nas, and Jay - Z make anymore good albums.I think Jay - Z has become a pop star, though.jimmygrace

I know Kayne West, don't know Talib Kweli and Common. Haven't bought a West album since College Dropout, though, so I need to catch up. And yeah, I most certainly agree that Jay-Z has become more of a mainstream rapper. Then again, he pretty much has always been appealing to the suburban white teenager crowd, so go figure.

[QUOTE="jimmygrace"]Check out Kanye West, Talib Kweli, and Common, aswell as underground rappers.Also lets see if guys like DMX, Nas, and Jay - Z make anymore good albums.I think Jay - Z has become a pop star, though.a_ratchet_fan

I know Kayne West, don't know Talib Kweli and Common. Haven't bought a West album since College Dropout, though, so I need to catch up. And yeah, I most certainly agree that Jay-Z has become more of a mainstream rapper. Then again, he pretty much always has been appealing to the suburban white teenager crowd, so go figure.

In the mainstream it is :wink:

Even Kanye West is killing it.

You have to wade through the 90% of total crap to get to the 10% of pure awesomness.hillelslovak

Yeah, but I still don't like the fact that there's so much crap. Hurricane Chris, Mims, Jim Jones... Ugh. I'm willing to bet that there are dozens or even hundreds of 10x better underground rappers who would kill to be able to release their album into the mainstream and get some advertising like these people. Only they deserve it a hell of a lot more.

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[QUOTE="jimmygrace"]Check out Kanye West, Talib Kweli, and Common, aswell as underground rappers.Also lets see if guys like DMX, Nas, and Jay - Z make anymore good albums.I think Jay - Z has become a pop star, though.longhorn7

I know Kayne West, don't know Talib Kweli and Common. Haven't bought a West album since College Dropout, though, so I need to catch up. And yeah, I most certainly agree that Jay-Z has become more of a mainstream rapper. Then again, he pretty much always has been appealing to the suburban white teenager crowd, so go figure.

His only three albums that IMO weren't made for the Mainstream were Reasonable Doubt, Hard Knock Life and The Black Album. The rest were good but obviously had a more mainstream appeal.

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[QUOTE="jimmygrace"]Check out Kanye West, Talib Kweli, and Common, aswell as underground rappers.Also lets see if guys like DMX, Nas, and Jay - Z make anymore good albums.I think Jay - Z has become a pop star, though.a_ratchet_fan

I know Kayne West, don't know Talib Kweli and Common. Haven't bought a West album since College Dropout, though, so I need to catch up. And yeah, I most certainly agree that Jay-Z has become more of a mainstream rapper. Then again, he pretty much always has been appealing to the suburban white teenager crowd, so go figure.

His only three albums that IMO weren't made for the Mainstream were Reasonable Doubt, Hard Knock Life and The Black Album. The rest were good but obviously had a more mainstream appeal.

Actually The Black Album was his biggest made for mainstream album.jimmygrace

Meh, guess you have a point. But then again, I only bought the songs I like such as 99 problems. So maybe the rest of it was mainstream. As for Blueprint... I dunno. I could never get into it.

No, as long as there rich white kids there will be rap sadly. I live in a upper middleclass town, and im one of the few kids who is lower middleclass, and also one of the few who doesnt listen to rap. I mean they try to act ghetto too which is messed up.(i mean idk if they listen to rap but please dont try to act black if you have more money than me .) Well imo rap will just linger on for a long time probably never ''die''

i guess its what ever you are in too.