Gangsta rap on death row as the US tunes out
This year rap and hip-hop sales are down 33 per cent, double the decline of the CD album market overall, which is under pressure from music download sites such as iTunes, where fans can buy individual songs.
In 2006, rap sold 59.1 million albums, down 21 per cent from 2005. Not one rap album made the American top 10 sellers of the year - a list headed by the saccharine tunes of the soundtrack to Disney's made-for-television High School Musical. The bad boys of rap are now trailing the cowboys of country and the headbangers of heavy metal.
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Shit had to happen, all these fake ass gangstas..lil nigga bow wow talkin bout bustin caps..that right there is enough to fuck up rap in general..and then you have these old ass niggas worth hundreds of millions of dollars (100,000,000) talkin bout movin coke..nigga that shit is old…gangsta rap fucked itself…
come on lets ressurect the rap game instead of laughing at its decline,lets buy records yeah move someshit like the million men march,lets push hiphop back to the diamonds.
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