Will rap be crushed in the 2010's?

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3361 Age : 51

I loved rap until about 1991. After that I just got bored with it. I still love the stuff from the eighties - it's crazy the prices some of those old cds command. Tough being a collector of it.

I remember Ice T, Sir Mix-A-Lot, KRS-One, and Flavor Flav were all openly big metal fans back when such things could ruin your street credibility.

Road Warrior Number of posts : 17151 Age : 48

I think i remember seeing a pic of Scarface from the Ghetto Boys wearing a Metal Church shirt once.

Zooey Addict Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45

jstate wrote:: I loved rap until about 1991. After that I just got bored with it. I still love the stuff from the eighties - it's crazy the prices some of those old cds command. Tough being a collector of it.

I remember Ice T, Sir Mix-A-Lot, KRS-One, and Flavor Flav were all openly big metal fans back when such things could ruin your street credibility.

Old school rap is the best, anything after the mid-90s sucks (and much of it in the early 90s. I like a lot of the 80s stuff and as far as the 90s I like Onyx, House Of Pain, Cypress Hill, & a few others (however I don't listen to it often, like Ult I only get a rap urge about once a year).

Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37871 Age : 54

It's funny, back in the 80s I didn't like what is now considered "old school" rap at all. But when I hear, say, Public Enemy or Ice-T nowadays I dig it. Especially compared to the stuff that's coming out these days...

When I was in high school I worked @ a lumber yard and I was the only white kid on the crew. The rest of the guys were older (in their 20s) and lived in Newark, and they were way into KRS-One, Public Enemy, Schooly D. and all the now-classic stuff. So I was hip to that a couple of years before "Yo MTV Raps" hit the airwaves and crossed it over to most suburban kids. When Anthrax and Public Enemy did "Bring the Noise" together and rock critics were hailing it as the best thing since canned beer, I remember thinking "Eh. The original version was better." Laughing

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Metal is my Life Number of posts : 12815 Age : 48

There's a lot of good rap still coming out. It's simply not mainstream. Despite never trying marijuana and not understanding how people can constantly rap about it, I think Kottonmouth Kings and a lot of their side-bands are excellent. But they have tons of very positive tunes. I also like how they mix in punk rock with hip hop.