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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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bongofury
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Macdad

My present clients are U2, AC/DC and the Black Eye Peas, plus three unsigned acts. I own three clubs. I have two touring properties being planned for the summer and have a television series involving 30 Blue Chip Artists in production for the Japanese, US and European market. I find your response to me as unworthy. None of this is being shoved down anyone's throats. It Shadorne's point, personal taste is your personal business. But for people of my ilk, you look stupid.
bongofury
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PS: Dark Moebius is right. Led Zep denied millions in royalties to the blues artists mentioned. Peter Grant, their manager, was well known in the biz, for being ruthless. It was only when the press and the lawsuits came forward, did they bend.
audiofeil
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Rap sucks; it's never been and never will be "music".

Although it has a strong appeal to current and future inmates.
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synthfreek
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If you think that all "hip-hop" is like the stuff you hear pumping from car stereos then check out the kind of stuff that REAL music/vinyl lovers can make.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR-i0qRHLpM&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy6jLvRgOhc&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHhlaspXVgo&fmt=18
sit
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Above discussion sounds like one I've heard starting with when the Beatles came on the scene. Only then it was my older friends parents wishing that, "that terrible noise" would soon vanish; not to mention how they were so against the Stones, Hendrix, Bowie, James Brown, and on and on.

I'm not a fan of rap. Others are welcome to it. I've tried and tried (I believe I have quite eclectic music interests).

I'd be VERY, VERY interested in a couple of current rap albums or CDs that A'Gon followers find worthy of purchase. I'd like to try more than the 15 or so works I have to date.

Most rap I've heard comes off much too angry, misguided, uninformed, full of predujice, rather rote/uncreative/repeticious and the like for my tastes.

In response to those who wrote above that the British "invasion" had roots in the blues created by our black American artists, that is correct.

That these bands openly credited our American artists - from what I've experienced and read that is likely 90+% incorrect.

The likes of John Baldry, John Mayall, Roy Harper, and even Clapton, the Animals and perhaps a few others were somewhat more open about the "borrowing". The Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yardbirds (in general), the Who, and other more popular "British Invaders" were not any too quick at acknowledging such details. Study it. I'm open to knowing where I might be wrong here.

"... and the beat goes on".
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