The hip hop/rap thing is so beyond played out. You know how pop metal ran its course by the early '90s when we were hearing 10th-string bands that had been signed at the tail end of that scene and were just a caricature of the originals that stormed the Sunset Strip in the early-and-mid '80s? Well, rap was there, like, 10 years ago, but the fans of this "music" are generally too stupid to recognize this.