But it is still shit.
"New" does not equal "good"
The best comment on rap I came across was rom the American strip cartoon "Bloom County", in which one character is striding purposefully, hat backwards, when he is hailed by a friend.
"Where ya going?"
"I'm gonna see a rap concert!"
"You mean you paid to watch four fat black dudes shout at you?"
"Oh.......yeah. You're right"
FM, the reason so many of us think it is shit is because it is tuneless doggerel. If the words were interesting, I might have a different opinion, but they aren't. There is no music there. No development of ideas. No dynamic tension, no crescendo/diminuendo, no VARIETY.
You want to listen to rap? Here are two examples: Eels, and Tom Waits.
Firstly, nowhere did I say that new = good (or even that rap = good), and secondly, the first two posters (to whom I was responding) had said nothing intelligent about the actual piece at issue but, and I quote, "Oh, I thought this might be a music thread, but it appears I'm mistaken" and "Says a lot about modern music in that they have to keep on stealing the real thing?"
And BTW, I have almost everything both Tom Waits and Eels have ever done. And I enjoy them, but I also enjoy Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, MC Solaar, and The Roots just as much. I am not putting up rap or hip-hop in general up against anything else in general, nor am I arguing that this particular piece is that good (it's no more than fun, as I have already said), I am just tired of simple and tedious prejudice that goes back to all those redneck comedians of the 1980s who would do that joke, 'rap? crap, more like!' Hilarious, I think you'll agree, especially the 417th time you hear it...