Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro have played a lot of criminals. Do the majority of veiwers imitate their actions in real life? The ones that do were going to do it anyway. The movies didn't make them do it. There's a lot more killing and violence done over religion, but people don't say let's ban it. At any rate, even if rap totally ceased to exist, it's not going to be replaced by funk. Has any music that went out of style regained mass popularity in the mainstream. When was the last time has rockabilly, big band jazz, Air Supply style light rock, disco, acid rock, or hair metal recieved mass popularity. People still record those types of music, but it has niche audiences, not Top 40 airplay or major TV coverage. The record companies in the US don't even put out its old funk records, but Pink Floyd, the Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan get repackaged all the time. If you want old funk and R&B albums, you have to buy Japanese imports.

MickyDolenz said:

Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro have played a lot of criminals. Do the majority of veiwers imitate their actions in real life? The ones that do were going to do it anyway. The movies didn't make them do it. There's a lot more killing and violence done over religion, but people don't say let's ban it. At any rate, even if rap totally ceased to exist, it's not going to be replaced by funk. Has any music that went out of style regained mass popularity in the mainstream. When was the last time has rockabilly, big band jazz, Air Supply style light rock, disco, acid rock, or hair metal recieved mass popularity. People still record those types of music, but it has niche audiences, not Top 40 airplay or major TV coverage. The record companies in the US don't even put out its old funk records, but Pink Floyd, the Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan get repackaged all the time. If you want old funk and R&B albums, you have to buy Japanese imports.

Who said anything about banning it? People should have the good taste to drop it simply because it sounds like shit. As for funk replacing shit hop, I could care less. I don't care if polka replaces it, I just want it fucking dead for the sheer hell of it.