Rock Strongo
My mind spits with an enormous kickback.
so 2002 was a good pick then lolOne of the biggest reasons I listened to 90's rap was because it was the inverse of pop.
Then in 2003,
2003 was the year rap transitioned into a subgenre of pop, therefore I consider THAT the year rap died.
- Lose Yourself won an Academy Award.
- In Da Club blew up and invoked every rapper to make booty shaking club hits with no intelligible lyrics.
- Outkast dropped the first "rap" album to ever win the Album of the Year Grammy.
i was huuuuge into rap...huge...and you are absolutely spot on.