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[–]Xorlopps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sales and air-time hardly dictate quality. In fact I would argue they result in the opposite, appealing to the lowest common-denominator. Rap is for the brain-dead among us.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lowest common denominator = most mass appeal

And you sound like a fellow old man saying rap. That genre is no longer popular.

I can agree with you that gangster rap doesn't have much to offer.

[–]Xorlopps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm 30, so I'm not sure if that makes me a old man. But mass-appeal is still generally not something I associate with being objectively good, usually it's the opposite. Maybe I'm a typical elitist metal fan, but I find rap/hip-hop to be mind-numbing and conceptually shallow and lowbrow.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well metal is certainly a genre that also gets called mind numbing. To each their own I guess.