Where does rap go from here

[pappy]

most people will agree that rap music is in its worst state ever.  we havnt seen a tru classic album since dre's 2001.  the music keeps on gettin more generic.  everything sounds the same.  where does rap go from here.  the music is gettin worse but the hip hop culture is gettin more accepted everyday.  it is gettin more mainstream everyday.  where does it go from here.  I think the music will just keep gettin worse an more watered down.  sales will start to flop b/c the teeny boppers will eventually move on to something new.  an i think tru hip hop heads will move on.  a lot of us are gettin older.  where get sick of the current state an just move on to another genre of music.  an the rest of us r goin say fuck it an just listen to old school stuff an ignore the new stuff coming out.  the hip hop culture will never go away b/c it is so mainstream now.  an so accepted everywhere it wont go away.  The music will never go away either but its goin get real ugly b4 its gets any better.  there will eventually be another renisance in rap like there was in 87-89 an 93-96 but i dont see that happening untill about 2007-2008

[Casper]

man tom u one of the realest ppl on here... i feel what u said but i think rap will get better sooner or later but shit has gotten worse for example
look at E.1999 and AOW they shit on albums like Thug World Order

look at The Imfamous and Hell On Earth they shit on Murda Mixtape
 and Doggystyle shits all over PTCTBDB... the only album im waiting for i Bizzy Bones and the next MD and BTNH and maybe 213 and eastsidaz...

[West Coast Veteran]

I haven't bought one album this year and only two last year. Current hip hop is trash. You on point.

[PLANT]

I've started to branch out myself lately, Ive been listening to some punk rock and some old pearl jam, nirvana an shit like that.

Hiphop is getting stale right about now. I mean theres still dope shit that comes out every now and then, but for the most part, Im rarely looking forward to the "new-shit"...

Hopefully WSC, 213, Eastsidaz and Dre will "freshen" this up for me.

[STILLDRE IS THE GODFATHER]

well i see it like this this year is the souths next years is the the west shits gonna be trash until dres album remeber 2001 that shit created the scene for a great hiphop year and 2004 is gonna be the same i can see detox being the best hiphop album of all time dre very rarely dissapoints and he wont hopefully followed by another up in smoke tour and 04 will be dope

[N-Sane Brain]

I'm feelin' you! I can't believe that we'll have to wait for Dre's next album to speak about a classic one more time. There are so many underground-artists, they would blow all away - but most of the listeners don't even recognize that there can be dope artists, without callin' themselves "Murderer" or "Number 1"

But you was wrong when you said that there wasn't a classic since Dre's "2001". Just listen to Canibus' "Rip The Jacker", in my opinion it's a classic

[Z the laidback Virus]

Where does rap go from here?

Into pop. It's a matter of time before we get a rapping boy- or girlband.

[Nightfall]

man, some of yall people should rock a backpack

[mauzip]

Where does rap go from here?

Into pop. It's a matter of time before we get a rapping boy- or girlband.

[I`m Wayne Brady bitch!]

I see many real and great posts here ! And I agree with yall . I have only bought one album in two years now,and thats outkast .
Hip hop nowadays is shit , all the feeling that once was in the music has now been taken over by the mighty dollar.Rappers nowadays dont even rap for the love of the music , but for the love of the dough

[Nightfall]

guess who never heard of necro or non-phixion^

[I`m Wayne Brady bitch!]

Guess who got internett and kazaa ?

[M Dogg™]

LOL.. man, hip-hop has never stayed the same. We are in the Southern era. It's all good to me, 'cause hip-hop is mainly a black culture, and black's mainly live in the South. It's a good way to counter the sales and attention that Eminem gets, and a way to have urban culture go back to the south than as oppose to being just a coastal thing. It's all good, relax, and dance a bit... lol. Besides, it's rear we get a Rakim, 2Pac, Nas, because during there eras there still was Vanilla Ice, M.C. Hammer, Tag Team, Nelly and other commercial rappers to out sell them.

[white Boy]

i somewhat agree, but, this year there has been really good albums like
jedi mind tricks- visions of ghandi
canibus - rip the jacker
gangstarr - the owners
Last emperor - myth, magic, music
and probably more
i do think hip hop will be geting more comercial as the years pass, but artist will still be droping good albums, its not that bad a year for hip hop, no stand out classics, but im still waiting for new nas, jay z, and RAKIM!!!