[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?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

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

The standouts will be remembered . . . Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest . . . but like the British Invasion, the vast majority will be relegated to the dustbin of history. Rap is not unlike Disco, it just enjoyed a longer shelf life.

[31R1O]

Well...the Beastie Boys are going 20yrs. strong and Outkast is heading in the same direction, Ice Cube has been around since the late eighties as well. Like every other genre of popular music there are quality artists as well as manufactured hacks.