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While probability suggests some of it must be worthwhile, I just can't be bothered. Rap is the musical progenitor of a generation of cellphone addicted yammering sheep; very little to say said endlessly, while hip hop represents an abysmally devolved and depressing set of priorities. I'm sorry, but machine generated "beats" don't cut it as a form. Both are pathetically provincial and narrow, not the expressions of a great popular culture. Hasn't this stuff been around forever? Jeez, from goths to rappers, is American popular culture in need of new blood or what?