Reply #65: Why does it get trashed?

[Rabrrrrrr]

because, musically, it's totally uninteresting. And lyrically, it leaves much to be desired - though I'm sure there is a certain amount of wonderfully important lyrical stuff out there. But musicially, hip hop and rap, like top 40, is mostly just shit. It's shit in very different ways, but ultimately, they all reek of corporatism and lack of creativity.

Rap, before it was a money maker, was great.

Now, it's assholes making 10 million a year living in gated mansions in Florida, et. al., and offering their own brands of $100 t-shirts, $200 sweatshirts, and other name-brand clothing, who sing about how the poor in the 'hood are being screwed by the man. Like FUBU clothing. What an ironic joke - "Clothes for the poor and oppressed of the hood, only $150 for a sweatshirt that says 'FUBU'". Well, guess what? The rapper and the hip-hopper (not all, but anyone on a label of any largeness) has become "the man", and that offends me, and the music itself offends me (like top 40, or pop country, or any other "pop" genre). Corporatized/industrialized music is generally and mostly garbage and uninteresting.