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

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

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

Where does rap go from here?

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

guess who never heard of necro or non-phixion^

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.