When did rap get bad?

@wolverine08: LOL

Spouting opinions gets you knocked out.

Eminem is great but he is not the only good one or the best one.

@wolverine08: A kick like that also knocks you out.

DUBSTEP CROSSES THE FREAKING LINE...

any way the only good rap is songs like white and nerdy (My gosh that song is epic)

I have to say, I think rap has become less groovy now. Call it rap or hip hop (the two genres cross, rap may even be a type of hip hop but I'm not an expert so don't quote me) or something else, this is the kind of urban music I like:

From around 2006 I think

Yeah, yeah, somebody take me back to the days

Before this was a job, before I got paid

Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank

Yeah, back when I was tryin' to get a tip at Subway

And back when I was rappin' for the hell of it

But nowadays we rappin' to stay relevant

I'm guessin' that if we can make some wishes outta' airplanes

Then maybe yo maybe I'll go back to the days

Before the politics that we call the rap game

And back when ain't nobody listen to my mixtape

And back before I tried to cover up my slang

But this is for the hater, what's up Bobby Ray?

So can I get a wish

To end the politics

And get back to the music

That started this shit?

So here I stand and then again I say

I'm hopin' we can make some wishes outta' airplanes

Was it ever good though? I mean, as long as we're saying subjective things.

There are still some rappers I still listen to. B.O.B., Gym Class Hero, and Eminem. Most of the Rappers in my Amazon Cloud/Spotify queue are pre-2003.

Otherwise, I can't stand most of the CD's my brother and sister listen to in the car. I think it started with Master P and went down hill from there.

Late 2000's was when Rap music started to turn to crap. However, some good rappers like Kendrick Lamar and Earl Sweatshirt (post-Samoa) are in good standing while Drake and Eminem showed with some good tracks within this decade.

Basically since it's inception.

I feel like we haven't had any "well educated" rappers in a while. A lot of new guys come in having dropped out of high school or gotten a GED and have rarely picked up a book in their life. One of the reasons as to why Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest rappers of all time, was because he was well educated. He has read a wide variety of lituature by many popular writers such as William Shakespear, Niccolo Machiavelli, Donald Goines, Sun Tzu, Kurt Vonnegut, Mikhail Bukunin, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Khalil Gibran.

Rap has been bad since about 2008

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