Rap is decidedly 'un-musical'.....and has been done to death. The ....ahem.....urban culture has beaten the dead horse and took it the only direction left: straight down the toilet.
It was a fad, a flash in the pan that held on WAY too long for one simple reason: the ridiculous mindset fostered by the entertainment media that "anything inner-city is cool so LIKE IT".
rap used to be fine. it was in the 90s when the gangsta rap started to become popular that rap got bad.
i still listen to grand master flash, sugarhill gang and run dmc.
GOOD (insert every filthy word I've ever screamed, heard or read) RIDDANCE!!!