The Hip Hop/Rap Thread

My problem with commercial hip-hop/rap (And, it wasn't always like this, go back about 8 or 9 years) is that there's very little compositional effort and almost no lyrical variety. I'm serious, Usher's "Yeah" is a good example. The song is called "Yeah" because that's the fucking chorus.

Even commercial hip-hop, the shit that would get piped over the radio, a few years back had a lot of complexity in the melody and even, in some cases, a good message with good delivery.

I'm so disgusted with modern hip-hop/rap for another reason: I can't find a club that doesn't spin almost exclusively the same five fucking songs that every other joint in the country is spinning. Samething on the radio. You know, I go to club and expect actual dance music, like Club/House/Latin/Groove/Techstep/Trance/Hardstyle/Electropop/Drum n Bass. Much like European clubs, where there's at least some variety.

I hear so many recycled beats from popular tracks circa 1998, and too many overly simplistic lyrics that make it hard for me to take the artist seriously.

It's not even about dancing to the music, because I like to dance to hip-hop, but this new-school shit licks balls, man. What happened to the days of Wu-Tang Clan?

Jam it back in, in the dark.