Time Magazine: Rap is Dying

[gamer07]

Yeah but bone thugs _n_harmony is still gonna go platnuim like always plus there the best rappers alive sence tupac,biggie smalls,and eazy_e died and there cd e-1999 went platnuim over 7 times and is rated 1 of the BEST rap cd's of all time and the song tha cross road won a gramme they are the best left!!!!!

[AlexMax]

Yeah but bone thugs _n_harmony is still gonna go platnuim like always plus there the best rappers alive sence tupac,biggie smalls,and eazy_e died and there cd e-1999 went platnuim over 7 times and is rated 1 of the BEST rap cd's of all time and the song tha cross road won a gramme they are the best left!!!!!

Measuring an album by how much it sold isn't a very good metric. MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em' went 10x platinum and was pretty much garbage.

And I've listened to some Bone Thugs. Their beats are maybe marginally better than the normal, two-note synth and drum machine poppy shit you hear on the radio all the time, and lyrically they're sappy as hell and sound more like R&B than hip hop.

They might be easy to listen to for some people, but so was A Tribe Called Quest and Gang Starr, and both of them were much more talanted.

Point of comparison:

Bong Thugs - I Tried
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz (We've got)

Bone Thugs are not the best emcee's alive, not by a long shot. You just haven't been looking hard enough.

[AlexMax]

THERE OLD CD'S ALEX MAX YOU DIDNOT LISTEN the new cd don't have busy bone on it (so it's not as good)plus I ment from the time the realest rappers were alive and bone thugs is/were friends and raped with the best/hardest rappers of all time I no i've been listen to bone thugs before this sight and purezc was made sooo.....I no what i'm talking about!!!!!!

Fair enough. See if you can dig up an older track of theirs on google video or youtube and I'll give it a listen.

[biggiy05]

Congrats you just got an infraction.

Learn some grammar and stop double posting.

[AtmaWeapon]

I heard some A Tribe Called Quest on MY XM RADIO the other day and they were pretty I'll have to give them a listen if I can ever find that The Sword CD I want.

[Lilith]

thanks for tunes alex-chan :)

[Masamune]

Yeah, good call on the El-P album. I completely forgot to get it. <3

[phattonez]

I heard some A Tribe Called Quest on MY XM RADIO the other day and they were pretty I'll have to give them a listen if I can ever find that The Sword CD I want.

All of their music is pretty easy to get, and I recommend all of it. Their music is the way that hip-hop should have gone.

[AlexMax]

All of their music is pretty easy to get, and I recommend all of it. Their music is the way that hip-hop should have gone.

It's still going that way, you're just not going to hear it on the radio, because it requires people with talant, and those people are the exact same people studios can't jerk around, since they are good enough to stand on their own.

The record companies needs mediocre talant that's unlistenable and unmarketable without their input, that way if they ever go "FUCK THE RECORD INDUSTRY" they can't make it on their own merits.

But in spite of what the trends in the music industry are, underground will never die. There will always be emcees, producers and DJ's who fly under the radar and will always release consistantly great albums. You just have to look for them.

[Sute]

I never was fond of rap.
Apparently, I qualify to be a BAD DUDE, 'cuz I lived in a crappy childhood place, but I am so incredibly white
My sister listens to that stuff, it's annoying when she's around. I only listen to the radio when someone nearby has it on, otherwise I don't even remember their channels or anything.
It's just most excellent that people are finally getting tired of that stuff. Most rap is horrible, but some can be good, absolutely anything out there can be good. It's just most of it is so monotonous with sex-drugs-guns.