In my opinion, and from listening to the genre since it's inception, "real rap" died in the early 90's. Starting with Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Run DMC and NWA. You have other rappers, Jay-Z, Nas, Outkast, TI and a very few others that popped on the scene, but they eventually turned into pop music rappers. Making music for "Hollywood" and not the street. And I do think that a lot of that came about because of the ever-growing popularity of rap. Execs saw a potential market there and then got in and "fine tuned" it to where it would be an accepted form of music for all listening audiences. Hence rap becoming pop music. Folks like Fabolous, while not bad on the microphone, aren't really termed a real rapper. I would listen to Freeway before I'd listen to Fab. Later, QD.Originally Posted by e30pwr
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