While we re at it, Rap music is dead

Im not going to bang on about this for to long as I have a few things to be getting on with and talking about rap music is not something i would consider a fun thing to do, I will tell you why.
In my last post I focused on 2 articles by 2 different publications putting across arguments for and against whether rock'n'roll was dead.
The guardian, who attempted but ultimately failed in trying to convince us rock was dead, included the statistic that only 3 rock songs featured in the top 100 best selling songs of 2010. 47% of the top 100 (thats how they have put it, I would of just said 47 songs and not included the %. Its a top 100. Anyway...) 47 of the songs featured were "HipHop/R'n'B".
Now this is where im going to start rambling. This article in the guardian was already flawed in my eyes just by its very existence. but when its lumping 2 different types of music together to form 1, I get annoyed.
Its just fuckin lazy. Lazy at best anyway, at worst its a total lack of understanding regarding the subject matter.
Hip Hop and R'n'B are not the same thing for-fucks-sake. Hell, lets read between the lines here, whats basically being said is "black music".
"Lets just lump all that nigger shit together, no one knows the difference"
"...But boss, I dont think you can put hardcore rap like NWA in the same category as.......Lamar"

Hahaha, sorry, but as soon as I remembered Lamar i had to have him as my example of R'n'B. I apologise to the R'n'B community but I think thats hilarious.
Anyway, my point is its a stupid perception of the music and its also extremely misleading to the argument they are trying to make.
Of course rock music is going to come off looking bad when you can put 2 different genres together to form 1 to boost the figures.
Im going to take it as a given that if you are reading this, then you agree with me so Im not going to dwell on this point any further; Nas and Whitney Houston - not the same. NWA and R Kelly - not the same. Big L and The temptations - not-the-foo-king-same.

If I was being kind, I would give the article and its author the benefit of the doubt, but im not kind and they should know better. But it is true that the line between the 2 forms of music has become somewhat blurred and thats down to the massive commercial impact the 2 forms of music have had over the last 10 years.
So maybe what the guardian should of done, rather than lump hiphop and r'n'b together as one genre, they should of put them both into the "pop" category.
Take these 2 songs for example. The first one is a cut from Dr Dre's first album "The Chronic" from way back in 1992. Its a good example of west coast gangsta rap music that was coming out at the time. Full of anger, no apologies for what it is, take it or leave it. Its dangerous, nasty, exciting..........(sorry it cuts off)
The second video is his new song "kush" due out very soon (its been in the pipeline for.....10 years?!).




The difference to the first video is obvious. The computerised vocals, the singing, the guest rappers....This could be a song done by almost anyone right now. this isnt the sound of west coast rap, this is the sound of the stuff filling the charts right now. This is the hiphop/r'n'b the guardian refers to, for you see, it seems that these days to have a hit, you need special effects done in the studio to enrich the sound of the vocals and you need either a female or male vocalist to sing the choruses. A beat, rhymes and flow simply wont cut it anymore.
Also back when I was growing up through the 90's most of the rappers I listened to were from the 80's or were the 90's gangsta rappers. They seemed to have something to say - allot of it was regarding fucking, drugs, shooting and fucking, but there were also some great social commentaries and insights into the culture that fascinated me.
Somewhere that got lost and the only things getting played on MTV base was shit like this...(probably not the best example for what im trying to say, i just think this is embarrassing)

So now what we have is aspiring rappers following the same formula as everyone else and it become boring and dull. For 10 years the one thing I have heard rappers rap about is how rich they are, how they get all the chicks and how amazing there life is. Well just fuck off. Not interested. MTV cribs might of been interested in how big your house is, I aint.
And now the pop stars of today follow that same formula. They all have there Hype Williams styled out flashy videos, they all have there polished "beats" to warble over, and they all have the occasional guest rapper to fill a verse here and there.
So maybe i shouldnt be to harsh on the guardians article, I just think what they were trying to say should of just been considered "pop" music. Which is no bad thing - pop music is just popular. Its not all good, infact alot of its shit, but lets call things what they are and the majority of the rap music thats selling right now is basically pop.
Rap music these days just doesnt do it for me - it sold itself short and sold out.thats why today rap music is lumped along with r'n'b and rubs shoulders with pop, theres money to be made from it now so it has to play by the rules.
So rock isnt dead - rap music is. haha. 

What ive learnt over the years though is that music goes in cycles, there will be an underground rap scene (something i am having to assume - like I said i have fallen out of love with finding new rap music because by the mid 00's it had become something I was no longer interested in. All my old tapes and cd's remain and I will often put on an old Wu Tang track to restore my faith, but new rap music just doesnt interest me right now), and this underground scene will gather momentum and restore peoples faith in proper rap music.
this will last a few years, and then no doubt one of the artists will employ a female singer to help sell there records (see black eyes peas) and we will go again from there. like i said, cycles.
anyway, im bored of this now.
bring back proper rap music - stop passing off this shite pop thing as rap. its not all about the money (50 cent, looking at you ya cunt. "If the roof on fire, let the motherfucker burn
If you talking bout money homie, I ain't concerned". Thats what you said, in your first song. Remember? probably not. idiot.)
Peace.