The funny thing is that what started out as a basically black urban sub-genre utilising a
common technique in R&B is now a global "art form". Rap, now "hip-hop" is something I
enjoyed in it's first, second, third and some of fourth generation. From the goofy bullsh*tting fun of The Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow and The Fat Boys through to the hard
hitting political commentary of Public Enemy up to the sheer inventiveness of The Jungle
Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul I dug the mess outta a lot of rap for many years. Still I consider it now a music I've mostly outgrown and most of what I hear today
either annoys me [[Lil Wayne) or does absolutely nothing for me [[too many to name). Not only that but much of it sounds like the most ugly, ignorant, banal sh*t ever recorded. It's not even a case of one out there track on a cd release it's practically all of it. Why waste my
time when there is so much other things that fit nicely in my ears...