You MUST know that you've got this wrong.

When it says that rap music sales have decline by X%, it looks at the average sales for that genre (100%) and compares it to the sales from today. It isn't comparing it to the percentage of other genres out of 100. I guess you had to include this for your argument to make any semblance of sense though.

"While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap. According to the music trade publication Billboard, rap sales have dropped 44% since 2000 and declined from 13% of all music sales to 10%. Artists who were once the tent poles at rap labels are posting disappointing numbers. Jay-Z's return album, Kingdom Come, for instance, sold a gaudy 680,000 units in its first week, according to Billboard. But by the second week, its sales had declined some 80%. This year rap sales are down 33% so far."

ONCE AGAIN i must post this

scratch what i said earlier,

Rap is done :-/

pussy gettin' pussy.



aint nothing wrong with dat, yo.

heres the gangsta version yo'

Rap will never DIE. No music exists outside of a culture that relates to it. To say rap is dying is to say all the people who love it are dying as well. Aint happening

i obviously did not mean it will no longer exist, just that it is dying out