Billboard Rap and R&B In 2011 (Our Thoughts)

[pamlovsy2j]

The early 2000's imo was really the start of the downfall of rap/hip-hop. I love the 90's rap. Its the only rap I can enjoy. You didn't see NAS or Tupac talking about idiotic BS like "Omg look how much money I have, bitchez, flashy bullshit, idiotic dances" Music as a whole is awful. Alternative Rock is still good though (for the most part) RNB has gotten very generic but I agree R. Kelly is still good.

[ZombieHouseFresnoCA]

It's hard to like hip-hop after 2001 - cuz its not hip hop if its likely playing on mainstreams top40 and/or radio! good stuff!

[jellonful]

And that's why I listen to metal.

[ZombieHouseFresnoCA]

@jellonful \m/ Randy Rhoads and DIO would approve! \m/ -Rubeer

[BrianLG100]

I didn't pay attention to music alot in this year.

[That90sGirl310]

Nicki Minaj use to be butch as hell...lol. You really need to check her before and after pictures, music too.

They comparing MB to B2K...lol. I listen to some rap some...but I'm listening to more and more hip-hop. Overall...it's gotten worse. They're calling people like Wayne, Drake, and anyone else out right now hip-hop, which they aren't, they are pop-rap garbage.

[Cereghini]

The problem with music is that you have to dig deep to find anything good. The radio doesn't play anything that it would take brains to understand, so it's almost a necessity to turn to the Internet for help.

I have a question for you though: do you know when the transition happened and why? I mean, why did music go from something that takes creativity and intelligence to make, to something that's only there for profit, and possibly for sex appeal in the case of people like Nicki Minaj?

[90sandearly00srule3]

@Cereghini i think i do. for rap, it happened around 1997, when 2Pac, and Biggie died, and Puff Daddy decided to start getting on the mike and rap instead of just producing, and then when Cash Money rappers got big in '99, that's when rap started getting commerical. And then in the early 2000's when crunk music took over with Lil' Jon, and then when most Atlanta rappers started getting promoted, and this craze of dance music, like the snap and "You're A Jerk", emerged.

[90sandearly00srule3]

@Cereghini And as for R & B, simple, it happened at the emergence of boy groups like B2K, and when they started making these hip hop dance movies (Step Up, Stomp The Yard, You Got Served, etc.). But it was really in 2005, when T-Pain first burst on the scene with his use of auto-tune, and then that's when everyone jumped on the auto-tune wagon, and R & B took a turn for the absolute worst, so i think you should blame T-Pain for most of the music you hear today.

[90sandearly00srule3]

@Cereghini Going back to hip hop, even in the early 90's you had commercial acts like MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, pretty much at the time when rap started to become acceptable on radio stations, people you couldn't take seriously and Gerardo, who sang the song, "Rico Suave", but it was stiill mostly good, and real. But i think is mostly Diddy to blame for the downfall of mainstream hiip hop.

[Cereghini]

@90sandearly00srule3

I had a friend in first and second grade (God I feel old now...) who liked the early Puff Daddy, but even at that time I never really saw the appeal. I think I've told you before that I can appreciate the poetics of rap, and especially if there's a good story behind it, and that's why I like early Eminem, but sooner than later it became about money rather than the story, which is a real shame because music can be a good way of getting stuff off your chest.

[DrGnockerz]

To me, the rap genre is only better than it has been in the past few years due to the absence of Soulja Boy, other than that I hear the same BS, some douchebag bragging about how much money he has and how many women he has in bed. RnB also suffers from repetitiveness, it's always some pretty boy black guy singing about a girl. Can we please get original?

Great video 90sandearly2000srule and J-skillz.

[lamareikan666]

No dance craze? What about the shuffle?

I'm not a big hip hop or rap fan myself, and it seems just as annoying to me as it was a couple years ago. However, you do make good points, I'm also tired of auto-tune and all this fake crap.

[90sandearly00srule3]

@lamareikan666 that's "Party Rock Anthem" and that song is pop. doesn't really count even if shuffling is a hip hop dance.

[PapaGUnit]

Yup, jay and 'ye are good. and rap has just gone down the toilet at least for this decade so far. some of it is alright, and i do like some young money tracks and maybach music, but of course not all is great though.

[drfizwuz997]

there are some really great nick/disney stars singer ever heard give it up and skyscrapper? ps sorry if there are 2 many comment

[90sandearly00srule3]

@drfizwuz997 i'm sorry, but i'm not really seeing any good singers out of those channel stars. i've heard all of them, and not one of them i like. Miley Cyrus is probably the best of the bunch, and she's still to me terrible. sorry, but i don't take these people seriously as musicians, if they want to act, fine, but leave the singing to the pros. plus, i'm way above the age limit to be listening to teen pop, is not my thing.

[drfizwuz997]

@90sandearly00srule3 um really give it up is R&B skyscrapper is quiet these guy are great singer like elizabeth gillies and ariana grands?

[drfizwuz997]

who did like the new someone like you music video why do you delte your video? i r&b never did

[90sandearly00srule3]

@drfizwuz997 you're going to have to make a better effort in typing, you need to type clearer 'cause i'm having a hard time making out what you're trying to say, and why i delete my videos is none of you're business, is just what i do when i get tired of them, and get old for me and value less.

[90sandearly00srule3]

@drfizwuz997 maybe you don't like R & B, but i do, and so does my friend, i don't like much pop music. As for "Someone Like You", i'm not going to talk about that, i'll discuss my opinion on it when the year end charts come in December, and make my video review, that has nothing to with this video. Sorry if i sound a bit harsh, but that's just how i set my ground rules on videos.

[drfizwuz997]

ninki minja is pop not hip hop j-cole is the 2nd best main steam single

[90sandearly00srule3]

@drfizwuz997 Nicki Minaj is signed to Lil' Wayne's Young Money label (a rap label), and has been rapping for a while, she's hip hop. Her style just changed because she went mainstream.