When will rap music be less mainstream?

Tpreaves

We hip hop and electronica fans be simpletons. I just bypass the whole thing by simply adjusting the volume on my car stereo to 10. At home, I simply plug and unplug my headphones into my iPod. Everything else seems a waste of time between the enjoyment of music and gear. :0

Funny the way this whole string reads. To be honest, I would have expected the intellectual, well thought out and researched posts to come from the rock/classical camp. Instead, all I am seeing from this side is "two liners" and grossly ignorant statements with absolutely no substance. The ones with even less to say but with more word-count have ran off with their tails between their legs after they were confronted by a smidgeon of intelligence.

OK, hope this ruffles a few feathers (hehe).

Oh, by the way, HI FI Snob is having a party at his house on Saturday, no chicks though. I RSVPd suggesting that he label all his components with REALLY big price stickers (cables and all) to save his breath and to give him a little more time to swan around his pad listening to all the ass-kissing male guests complimenting him on his system, which was the whole point of throwing the party in the first place. Time to let your hair down, It's gonna be absolutely craaaaaaaaazy. Dress code - suit and tie.

OK, I admit it, not much work to do around here today so I thought I would throw a few more cats in among the pigeons for a bit of fun.

TPREAVES,

Yep, got it all down - even the bi-amping. Piece of cake in the end. Still working on room treatment issues though.

No, don't point me in the direction of any new gear, enough is enough and I am too easily tempted.

Thomastrouble...Glad to hear that.This stuff can de daunting sometimes.BTW,you might want to look into a 12-step program to help out with that rap addiction that is haunting you!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard of a clinic in Canada that will put you on a 24/7 dosage of Tiny Tim and Yoko Ono that is guaranteed to wean you off that rap nonsense.Of course listening to Tiny Tim and Yoko Ono 24/7 might make you want to stop listening to music all together!!!!!!!! Then you can sell all of your equipment on A'gon for half price to help pay for the treatment!!!!!!
Okay,enough's enough,I gotta go listen to my Gregg Allman and Cher album.Later.

Tpreaves

Tiny Tim - now there's a blast from the past! I will give the treatment a miss though. Hip-hop accounts for probably 20% of what I listen to these days, I don't actually have a favorite genre at all - good music is good music whatever the genre and however it's made. If I wasn't so open-minded then maybe I would take you up on the treatment thing. Have you ever thought about checking yourself in?
I really don't understand why so many people on here have a fly in their ear over hip-hop. What I do suspect though is that something else is coloring their judgement (no pun intended) and it has nothing at all to do with music.

If I went through your music collection I am sure I would like a great percentage of it, maybe even latch onto some of the styles that normally wouldn't float my boat. I consider myself lucky in that sense. Obviously, some of the stuff I would pass on, but I could never see myself reacting towards it with out and out hatred like some of the above posters. Put it this way - if I was offered a night out, free beer all night to hang out with any 3 or 4 guys on this thread for a great time, fun conversation and a good old laugh I would have a hard time selecting more than three or four drinking buddies from the thread (don't worry Bongofury, the barmaid said yours is coming right up). What I am saying is, these reactions say more about the whole person than simply their taste in music.