explain to me again how rap is popular?

[ciao99]

Hip Hop and Rap just doesn't make for a good live show. It sounds better in most of the kids cars, with their $10,000 sound systems they have. At a hip hop show you see some guys raping with a turn table behind them and some girls dancing like strippers on stage, for a $10 cover charge you can see and hear the same thing at the Foxy Lady, plus a few Motley Crue songs. When people see live shows they want to see people playing drums, guitars, bass...etc. That is why bands like Dave Matthews, the Allman Brothers, and a little band known as Gov't Mule, can do so well coming to town 2-3-4 times a year. However a 3 or 4 minute Kanye West song does better on the radio than a 18 minute jam of Whipping Post.

Mule

When I saw Public Enemy, a couple times, they put on a pretty awesome show.

I can imagine. Public Enemy is of a different generation. It was more about the music then. Today's hip hop is about street cred, not music. And today's hip hop is just mummbling over tired, sampled rehashed beats.

I am no fan of dinosaur rock, but I do have to say a concert by a rock or soul musician has more to offer than seeing big ego hip hop stars on stage with hoochie mamma dancers.