When is the age of rap music going to die?

[Ryu]

After rap music loses it's popularity, what kind of music do you think is going to be the next big thing?

[Marley]

Lol Music is music. In the future they will sample rap songs and make it into something new. Just like how people are sampling disco songs and making electronic music.

[Abhijith]

I dont think that the age of rap music will ent in distinct future...almost all punkrock ; and all kind of such a kind of songs are supported by rap...its impossible to think about end of rap songs...

[Janice]

Never, theres always going to be rap, the style might change over the years but in our lifetime, we'll always have the great music if rap and r&b and pop to listen to.

[Janice]

Whatever the next big music thing is, I don't know...nor do I really care. Hip hop is already struggling. Sure, it's fine mainstream-wise but most hip hop heads despise most of it now because it's suffering a slow and very painful death. Even the few good ones I don't think have the ability to save it on a wide scale. Good hip hop is going to go back underground, and the hip hop as we used to know on radio...is going to be watered down more and more.

Mixtapes never used to have release dates, now they're marketed like full albums, most rap beefs have now moved to Twitter, so there goes the battle rap diss tracks. Hip hop hasn't been about talent for a while now, it's about how marketable you are, what your gimic is and how you build your brand. Most up top don't give two sh!ts about talent in rap anymore. The good ones are forgotten underground while the cartoony, gimicky crap is exposed and overplayed. Thing is, they call most of it hip hop, and so Top 40 pop fans listen and say they're into rap and hip hop and yet haven't a clue about the real RAW stuff and how it used to be. Rap used to be feared, rap used to be considered respectful by other rap fans and artists. Most of it now, is just laughable. I stay to the underground, and I stick to the music that was part of its legacy...not this radio, MTV outplayed, over-spun bubblegum crap.

Rap is already dying in the mainstream. It's not losing it's popularity because it's being changed to something that most don't even consider rap any more. So it only SEEMS "popular" because they "label" it rap or hip hop. When really, it's just a different kind of pop now.

I will always be a hip hop and fan fan of the kind I grew up and love. So whatever the "next big thing" is, I don't care. I probably won't be interested and I'll still be spitting along to Biz Markie or Kool Herc until I die.

[KaraH]

When I find a cure to this "rap"-disease.

And I'm hoping classic rock will come back :]

[naspoetgirl]

Some rap music is wack for sure. People would make better rap songs if they knew who Kool Herc was and that rap music should come from Hip Hop culture and not a desire to make nursery rhymes that make them rich. Most of the music on the radio sucks and has nothing to do with Hip Hop.