I'm starting to get sick of my favorite genre of music, rap. All the new music released is essentially the same thing said in a different way. If the song has a good beat the rapper could have any ridiculous nonsensical lyrics, but the song will sell because of the beat. It's really starting to annoy me that most of the newer successful rappers have little lyrical talent and simply rely on catchy phrases. Lil john is a good example of this, on ninety percent of his songs he just repeatedly says: "YEAH, OKAY, WHAT", and has other rappers featured in his song that rap the verses, which are invariably egregious. Yet he's one of the more successful rappers as far as record sales go.

In my opinion the only current main stream rappers that have quality lyrics are Jay-z, The Game, Eminem, and maybe a couple others I can't think of at the moment, but those three are the three best in my opinion. Fifty cent used to have good lyrics, now he's relying on his past success to carry the sales of his newer songs. In the 1990's, you could argue that for the most part rap was intellectually profound. The rap of 2pac and Biggy, who wrote during the 1990's, was a form of poetry that was lyrically genius and some of their songs addressed social issues. You can't even compare the best lyrical song of some of these newer rappers to one of 2pac's weaker songs.

Don't get me wrong, there are quite a few very good lyricists around. It's just that their records don't sell and you don't hear about them. People are ignoring the fact that someone such as Lil John has no talent as a song writer. I'm not sure if it's cause they don't care and just like the beat, or they don't realize that his lyrics are garbage. For me the solution has just been to listen to the older stuff, even though it's old it is so much better than most rap out there now.