Rap Music Sales In Serious Decline

Since you mentioned you don't mind some Bluegrass... Have you listened to John Gorka?

I would have never heard of him, but happened into some tickets, saw him live and now am hooked. NOT the typical type of music I like, but like I said, I'm hooked.

 

How about Josh Groban?














NOT!

 

Does this mean teens will start to pull up their pants from their ankles back to their waists?

 

Yes, and the bottoms will come up to there waist in return

 

I liked Daft Punk's first two CDs, music wise.

Not the original vid but much more fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339ixMtHrVk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpf72npcnj4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iztNAQ7lx0Y

From the next one (is that a 412 in the vid?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzN6eFPx-B4

 

Rap + Polka = Rapolka
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thank God

Sht Hop sux

 

I grew up listening to a lot of rap and I used to really love it but for years now its been garbage. Everyone sounds the same and raps about the same stupid ****. I cant stand it anymore...

 

Agreed. Unfortunately, hip hop is here to stay...Like was said before...Good beats, bad lyrics... I will admit that I do have some respect for innovators like Eminem, who basically was a marketing icon because he catered towards the market, young suburban white kids....And most of his lyrics are about how f'ed up the world is and how f'ed up he was....not about shooting this guy or that guy and then raping his mother.

Hip hop culture is what changed the lyrics...just like David Banner pointed out. People are going to write what sells. You either have to shoot someone (aka Snoop, Puff Daddy, Tupac, Notorious BIG, Fat Joe, and the list goes on) or have been shot 11 times like 50 cent....I guess people are getting sick of the violence and hate the music spreads...Good for them....

Anyone who denys that the hip hop culture spreads hate and violence is smoking something themselves....Remember when 'Boys In the Hood' came out in the movie theatres??? If you have seen the movie, it has a great message...its about the trials of growing up in the hood, staying away from all the killing in the hood and making something of yourself. Yet on opening weekend, what, 13 people were shot nationwide in the movie theatres??

Hip hop will always have its market share, but a part of it will get taken by country music (which is on the rise, big time) in the top 40 market (as crazy as it sounds, country and hip hop share A LOT of the same market) and electronic music (in the world of nightlife). Electronic music rules in Europe, and has for decades although hip hop has invaded European nightlife as well, it just hasn't completely taken over it like it has in the states.

More balance, is what you going to see. Electronic music seems to be on the rise again...after falling off the map in the U.S. about 8 years ago.

 

More mid 90's...Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy (a little earlier too), Fluke, Olive, Josh Wink...

Late 90's saw a softer sound on the house side.....Sonique (even though the song was almost 10 years old when it hit the charts), Robin Fox, Darude, Amber (more popular later in my opinion although she did have 'One More Night' earlier), ATB, the start of Ian Van Dahl (one of the greatest IMO),

and more breaks like that kick ass remix of Your Love that this kick ass D.J. did...

Early 90's was the good ol' cheesy dance like La Bouche, Haddaway, Real McCoy, Crush, or anything on 'The Night at the Roxbury' soundtrack.

And the best electronic song of the 90's, IMO....Faithless - Insomnia....

 

Still one of the best in history

 

All da big hoes get loose wit it, All da skinny hoes let "Bruce Bruce" hit it !!!
Holla !!!

Anyone remember Funk Master Flex. CLASSIC !!

 

Congratulations!!!!! Welcome to adulthood.

 

Definetly, if aliens were to come and ask "What is dance/club music?" That song would be enough to explain it.

 

Double post.

 

Has nothing to do with rap music but, that's good stuff!

 

Like many here i do like some rap but mainly the older stuff. It's in the decline because they keep putting out crap. Bad beats with mindless lyrics with no message. Back in they day, they might have had a point, or a story to tell. Now it's all about dumb sh*t. This is the case in almost all forms of music these days though. It's not just hip hop.

 

I call it S**T hop

this couldnt happen soon enough

 

I beg to differ - I would claim ALL NEW MUSIC is in decline. Rap/Hip-Hop is still 'there', and will always be there, because blacks/minorities now have a powerful, cultural 'voice' that is theirs and theirs alone, Eminem notwithstanding. Huge fortunes were raised be all-black 'artists', led by black management, that created the rise of a whole black industry employing a whole lot of 'bruthas'. People are still listening to Rap/Hip-Hop, they're just not actually buying it anymore - they're downloading it, or 'ripping' it, for free. Only a fool goes to the mall and plunks down $18 for a CD anymore to buy one hit song and 13 tracks of filler material. You borrow the CD from someone who bought/borrowed/stole it, feed it into iTunes, and stick it on your iPod/PC and email it to everyone else who wants it. Store-bought music is dead.

 

Rap and its decline... Well I liked it in the early days before the ganster crap started then the bling was just stupid. Its just run out. Early days were messages or funny stories. Great stuff. Today its just weak but its still selling. The real culprit is like someone said is downloading music and CD prices. $18 bucks for a CD PLUS tax is damn close to $20.00 for what? 2 decent songs. I could go to the store back in the day and get 3 cassettes for that. YEA I said it cassettes! I may be older but I am not stupid. Rock fell off hard and I like it from the ballads to the heavy stuff but it fell off too. Alternative fell off. Punk turned to Mall Punk. I'll just listen to my old stuff. Bloc Party is the newest thing I bough in years...

Popular stuff comes and goes but I think the whole music industry is hurting from downloading. I havent bought much music in a LONG time and what I do buy is to replace my cassettes that dont work. But my IPOD is smoking! LOL

All in all if you dont like it dont listen to it. Simple...

 

You have no idea.