Rap, with some rare exceptions is abject crap.. but that’s a generally true statement of pop music in general.
Yes you do get a few generational artists that stand out, and yes thanks to lock of moderne technology there was at least true musicianship to some degree in the past vs a lot of todays slop.
But all in all, the majority of popular music has always been dumbed down swill for mass consumption.
You can’t go through any decade of pop music and not realize 80-90% of it is utterly forgettable musically and lyrically.
Yes certain songs will speak to individuals because they relate to events in their past so they hold special places for them because they were the popular song during some important event. But musically most of it has always been swill.
As a whole though, yes Rap is probably the lowest of the low…
Rap is 90% rubbish, 5% novelty, and 5% brilliance. Rap battle done properly is positively Shakespearean.
Eminem’s Stan and Lose Yourself are very well written.
Spoken words as “songs” are inherently amusing. Whether its Shatner, rap, or Mockney. A pub night in sahf landan is best with a snooker table, Snakebites on conveyor belt, and a low volume playlist that isn’t a chavvy R&B screechfest. Guy Ritchie got the right idea.
Blur (”Parklife”), Goldie Lookin Chain (”Your mother’s got a penis”), Middlerow (”Right Proper Charlie”), and Chas n Dave (”The Sideboard Song”).
Most music these days is not ‘music’. It is a manufactured product.