by Jason Greer

Created on: January 04, 2010

Perhaps it is a bit far fetched to blame the failure of the future on the  form of music known as rap.  However, just because it isn't fair to place all the blame as it pertains to the failure of the future, it is easy to see how it might some how have a hand in it.  Unfortunately for rap music there are a plethora of reasons why rap music will soon no longer be looked upon as the creative, expressive, lyrical art that it is.  Sometimes it seems that with each passing year the state of rap music keeps getting worse and worse.  While this may sound unfair to the rappers with talent, and there are a few of you, still at the end of the day the truth is the truth and the fact is that slowly but surely rap music is losing it's essence.  The sad thing about this entire situation is the fact that for every reason one might offer as to why rap music is poisioning the future there is also in turn a person some where out there that is just as easy to blame as anyone else.  However, while there are more reasons why one might assume that rap music's place in the future is not exactly what one might refer to as "a sure thing", there are a few major problems that require immediate attention if the creative, personal, and deep rhythmic form of music known as rap will be able to stand the test of time.

The best way to explain rap's biggest problem is to encourage someone to get in their car and turn the radio dial to the local rap station and just sit there and listen.  Then when you absolutley cannot stand it anymore, turn it down and refelct on everything that was heard, and I can almost promise that each person will reach one of the following conclusions about rap music.  Conclusion number one being that every song they heard may have been by a different artist, who used a completely different beat, and even titled differently from the others it is hard to escape the fact that every song you might have heard is about the exact sunject and has been for the better part of the decade. It is this fact alone that has stripped rap music of the creative factor which played a major role in the success in the music genre in the first place.  Every song heard is about how rich he or she is, what everyone is doing in the club, or everyone's personal favorite drugs, sex, and violence.  Yet while those are very intresting and fun subjects no rap song within the last five years has made it beyond the standard fifteen minutes of

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