Can someone please tell me what happened to rap? What happened to talent, rhythm, and lyrics that meant something? How in the hell did people like Soulja Boy and Lil Wayne hijack the music world with their crap?

rap is testing its boundaries. it is trying to grow. its not crap its experimental

Some would argue that rap music never injected any talent or rhythm from the start. But that's another story, though.

If anything, rap is going through what "hair metal" went through in the late eighties before it got killed off by grunge. Every corporate record label is snapping every rap act out there in order to rubber-stamp some more CDs. Even the crappy acts are being signed in order to "feed the machine" that is the record industry- it's all simply a ploy to get the sheeple of America (and beyond) to buy more music to shove into their CD players and stuff.

<<<never been a lover of rap....its just talkin fast to music!

its the oldest form of music. poetry to drum beats

Think i'd rather chant!!

I feel the same way. Creativity has been pushed aside for money. Its all about who has the biggest diamond grill, or who has the most tricked out ride rather than who has the fastest rap, or who has the catchiest beat.

I can only pray that OutKast, Eminem, any other rapper who is creative can save the genre. Its gone so stale over the last few years, its all about being in a club, getting laid, and looking mean.