When will rap music be less mainstream?


First time I heard MC Hammer’s song many years ago, I like the rhythm and thought it is quite unique. After that, all kinds of rap music pop up. I never thought rap music would be mainstream for such a long time in US. If you look at the music award ceremonies, you will find it being flooded with rap music. Sometimes I am not even sure rap can be considered as song because you don’t sing but speak. Now you start to hear rap music in some other languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean that don’t sound good in rap format. It would be interesting to hear rap music in Italian.

Time will tell if a song is good or not. A song is good if somebody want to play it for their loved ones on the radio 20 years later. I can’t imagine someone will play a rap for their beloved one 20 years later. Just curious if any A’gon member keep any rap collection?

Besides rap, I also have a feeling that the music industry in general is getting cheesy now. American Idol show gets huge attention while lots of singers perform at the bar or hotel can easily sing better than the idols. The show also asked Barbara Streisand if she watched the show and who was her favorite idol. What do you expect her to answer? People said Justin Timberlake is very talented singer/songwriter. I know him because I saw lots of headshot of him on commercials and magazines, but can you name any popular/well known song from him?
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Showing 3 responses by dan_ed

Intimidate rockers?!?! Bring it on kids. WE were intimidating your grandparents! :-)
This is a humorous read! I know how you "rappers" feel, even though I don't care for the genre. And, yes, I have tried. It is just doesn't do anything for me. Perhaps that makes me ignorant and uneducated? :-) Most audiophiles don't have much if any respect for music other than classical and maybe jazz. I listen to rock, classic rock, prog rock, goth, techno, country, bluegrass, and sometimes throw on some jazz. Rarely classical, but there are times when I enjoy it. So you can imagine the looks and comments I get from most professed audiophiles. So reign in the negative labels please. Some of you are starting to sound exactly like "them"! It really is ok to form your own opinions and let others do the same.

And don't get me started on the sound of audiophile gear! 99% of which can't play our kinds of music worth a damn.

No, no. You hip hop, car jockeys need to learn what bass is supposed to sound like. Not that LF distortion noise almost every one of you are so proud of. THAT is what people are repulsed by. It's not the volume, it is the lack of sounding anything like music. Maybe there are some good tunes in there, but they keep getting drowned out by all of the parts rattling around on your rice rockets. Come back and give me a listen when you can reproduce a decent 20Hz tone without the car farts getting in the way. :-)