Reply #37: When country music dies...

[bliss_eternal]

in other words, no time soon.

While I'm not fond of the current incarnation of rap, I realize it is making some people a great deal of money. Urban culture is a incredibly popular right now--whether the culture represented in a lot of rap is a depiction many aren't even privy to doesn't seem to matter. Bottom line seems to be the money.

Honestly, I wish it would go back to the rap of the 80's--when rap and hip hop was fun.

While I recognize that the street rap and 'gangsta' incarnation were important in terms of telling the stories that few wanted to know about--the reality of urban life at that time, I feel it has gone past making an important statememt and turned into something sad, disturbing and unnecessary. It went from musical anthropology to something that too many seem to be celebrating. That bothers me...

But that's just me...

I recognize everyone has different likes and dislikes. Everyone's entitled to that. I don't like it, so I don't listen.