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Rap Disc Sales Going Bye Bye

Interesting;

NEW YORK –AP— [1]

Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.  The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture’s negative effect on society.  Rap insider Chuck Creekmur, who runs the leading Web site Allhiphop.com, says he got a message from a friend recently “asking me to hook her up with some Red Hot Chili Peppers because she said she’s through with rap. A lot of people are sick of rap … the negativity is just over the top now.”

Nice that my earlier comments are being vindicated, here. I mean, I wouldn’t say the Chili Peppers are exactly the forefront of a sudden sounds, but it’s the direction that’s remarkable, here.