When rap came out 30 years ago I thought it was just a fad

If you ask the roots themselves they have the completely opposite opinion.  The are the intelligent side of hip hop. Interesting comments.  Not Informed on the band and its originations. 

Disco was a fad,  rap/hip-hop is here to stay.

Orchestral music,  opera,  jazz...they ain't dead,  either.

Weird Al Yankovic is still around, too,  and I've never found him amusing in the least BUT...some people still do.

I'm sitting here ripping music into my music server,  culling recordings that make me think,  "what was I thinking?"  Here goes Public Enemy immediately after Paul Simon...  (I don't have that many "P" artists,  hmmmm)

Exactly, onhwy61! Sophisticated music listeners said the same about Elvis and the other Rock n' Rollers in the 50's (Frank Sinatra calling them "cretins"). It appears each generation feels the same way about the one that follows. I don't find that surprising, nor correct or incorrect. Pop music reflects the culture of it's time, and this time belongs, as it always does, to the young.

"They are the Intelligent side of hip hop"


Now that was hysterical! Thanks for the laughs.

If you ask the roots themselves they have the completely opposite opinion.  The are the intelligent side of hip hop.

I can see that. My comments about the Roots pertain to their influences and musicianship. But Rappers today don't need or have any musical ability and wouldn't even know the names of the music legends that came before them.

I guess the Roots would label themselves a Hip-Hop group. Sometimes the rapping is very musical as in the following clip;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojC0mg2hJCc
 
sometimes it is just bad Rap with a very good musical accompaniment.