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

Yo’ Whip, My Brother:
Here is the Reader’s Digest version since my "soapbox" take was too much for you.

To address OP’s question, which I already have done in an earlier post, HAD YOU READ IT:

The reason RAP has survived is because it sells. The marketplace has spoken.

It’s as simple as black and white.

Well I think that the storytelling that once dominated the rap scene is gone. People are recording 5 songs and trying to get a million hits on YouTube. It's either a dance or fake tough guy rap. I don't like it at as much as I used to. I'm older and listen to Duke Pearson, Harold Mabern, Miles Davis, John Coltrane nowadays. I will admit that if I never listened to rap and my first experience to it is what I see now I wouldn't be impressed much by what it is now. Gone is the wordplay and the wittiness that made move love it.  It has been replaced by what's on the radio now. I'm in Dallas and there is one of the greatest jazz stations in country the Kntu 88.1. My radio stays there. I hope the dance rap and posing is a phase in the genre. I have seen it before. It always corrects itself. I hope it does soon. Lol enjoy the music or noise. Lol

"The reason rap has survived is because it sells"


Just because it sells doesn't make it good. Bose and McDonald's also sell and both are total crap.

@ps 

I was primarily referring to this:

"This is one of the most insipid and vacuous threads on this website. There is an elephant in this room and it has little to do with musical taste."

I (and others) had been directly addressing that elephant throughout the whole thread.

Fad I. Think not. There once was a group of MC's from a far away place (Oakland, California) Hieroglyphics. Did about 5 albums and continued to travel the world and perform about 15 to 20 years after they came out even 12 yrs after they stop making albums because they where the great in the hip hop area of lyrics wittiness and story telling. They continued to sell out 20,000 seat arenas because it wasn't just a fad and they were saying. They toured Europe, Asia, Austrailia and South America. Great lyrics and beats and the world from Oakland to Aukland wanted it year after year after year. The people have spoken. The world has spoken. Sorry that the 30% percent of code word thug calling folks in this country don't like it. The world does. Doesn't mean the world is right. I'm just glad we have somebody on the thread to tell us that the world is wrong and it is all crap because we are not that smart. Also, the whole world is stupid for listening to and buying it.  Also, it never did anything positive. I'm so glad that our music Oracle is a pure unadulterated genius. Lol.