Rap isn't going to die. When it becomes unpopular it will go back to being the largely underground movement that it started out as. That is where it belongs. Music like that in the spotlight just perverts it and breeds too many lame me-too clones. I could actually stand rap in the early ninetees and before. I've lost the will to try and find any good rap through all of the industrial-grade sludge pumping out of the record company's love pipe.
It's like metal in the 80s. Most people liked it. Then they didn't. Pop fans went on to the next latest thing and metal fans kept on listening to metal. It existed before, during, and after its pop phase. Underground, too.
On that note, I really wish punk would just die. I mean, not just out of popularity, but of music all together. How could such an anti-attitude to musicianship ever last so long? They can't sing, they can't play, and that's the point.
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