[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

It's about time if you ask me. The article also states that rap is 30 years old? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

[taxed2death]

I never could get into 100% "canned" music. Drum machines have their place. Synths have their place...but somethings just weird about going into a studio and programming a bunch of boxes and then yacking some nursery rhymes over the top of it. I never got into this whole sampling thing either. Plagiarism is plagiarism. How devoid of originality does one have to be to rip off another musicians tunes?

About the only music as bad as (c)rap music would have to be smoooooooooooth jazz... where some dude abuses a sax with some really cheesy early 80's drum machine thumping in the background. It's non-music. Give me some HUMANS please...
Sam Cooke, Django, Metheney, Rush, Black Label Society, Al Dimeola, Benny Goodman, Viovod, Johnny Cash, J.S.Bach.............

Who will remember any of these (c)rap "artists" 20 years from now?

[Zionist Conspirator]

It's about time if you ask me. The article also states that rap is 30 years old? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

Somewhere in the tales of Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus does a rap-like recitation:

Ole Mars Jackson
Fines' confraction
Fell downstairs to get satisfaction
Big Bill Fray, he rue de day . . .

But that's all I remember.

Anyway, "talking blues" have been around for a long time.

[william clark]

As I said to my wife the other day:

You know, forget about the question of whether it should even be called music. How the hell do you not just get bored with it fairly soon? I don't care what it is, if the sound is so fundamentally the same from one "song" to another, I get burnt out on it pretty quickly. I remember really liking the first thing I heard by Hootie and the Blowfish, so I bought their debut album. I was bored with the sound before I'd heard the whole thing, and never played it again.

[Aquinasfan]

The article also states that rap is 30 years old? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

I couldn't believe it either. But then, I think "Rapture" by Blondie was arguably the first rap song.

I thought this crap would die out after a few years. I guess I was wrong.

[Fierce Allegiance]

But after 30 years of growing popularity...

Holy crap, it really is almosy 30 years, isn't it.

DAMN, I'M GETTING OLD!

[USMMA_83]

How about banning music video (I know you can't). Music video has just about killed rock-n-roll. The Doobies, Eagles, 38 Special, etc. wouldn't get air-time today. Speaking of which, it's been over 7 years since I've seen MTV.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

There is some rap music that I like.

(Probably about a dozen songs over the 30 year history.)

[TheStickman]

Awesome news. Maybe there will be a return to singing and actual songwriting again. American music was nearly ruined by this garbage.

[chopperman]

I think American Idol has lured the country away from Rap.

[NonValueAdded]

Surfin' Bird (Bird is the Word) by The Trashmen, 1964

[N. Theknow]

Yep. IIRC, the first "rap" was a ditty done to the tune of "Good Times."

[stm]

The words "rap" and "music" should never be used in the same sentence with out a negative in between them.

[stm]

Rap is popular with teen white kids too thanks to whiggers like Eminem.

[stylin19a]

man, that non-binding NYC resolution banning the "N" word realy worked fast !

[Arrowhead1952]

rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture's negative effect on society.

Using "rap" and "music" in the same sentence is just WRONG. It's almost like saying Algore's energy use is justified by buying "carbon offsets".

[Names Ash Housewares]

Good.
Die.
And I hope the loud car stereos go with it.

[P-Marlowe]

People who listen to rap music have no compunction against stealing it.

Sales are down. Thefts are up.

[Old Professer]

It started with "scratching", the repeated reversing and advancing of the arm on a turntable of records available at the time and went on to wholesale plagiarization of tracks of the dominant beat as a background to nonsensical, doggerel-style pseudo poetry.

It evolved to today's gangster rap which is essentially nihilistic and misogynist in its content.

[rock58seg]

This would be possible, only if, something more boring or worse sounding came along. I have not yet heard of anything that meets those criteria.

[dfwgator]

Finally!!!