Originally Posted by DTK

Early rap was intelligent and had good messages. Check out Run-DMC and Grandmaster Flash. Then it was hijacked by the woman-hating, violence-glorifying gangsta faction which turned it to shit.

Originally Posted by Bryan G

Way to generalize there buddy. Have you heard tupac before? You might not like the music but he had some solid lyrics, same as jay-z and many others I do agree that a lot of it is garbage but grouping it all together is pretty ignorant.

Originally Posted by DWB

a LOT of mainstream rap is total shit. but there are also some really talented rappers out there. we're just not usually force fed them by the media.