Rap Rock

Throughout its history, the hip hop community has been open enough to wear it's influences proudly on their "sleeves". There has been so much intertwining hip hop with the likes of R&B, rock, blues, funk and even heavy metal. While some aspects of the community can be closed, the artists are very open as to where they take their influences from. So much of music, in general, is about learning form the past and using that to create your new product. Every rapper has their influences, the ones who helped shape their musical taste.

One direction where I dont think a lot of the original rappers would have expected hip hop to go is "rap rock". The first song which lead to this cross-genre creation was Run D.M.C.'s mashup with Aerosmith on"Walk This way". Then in the late 90's this sub-genre became more mainstream with the likes of Limp Bizkit. While since then Limp Bizkit has gone on to be thought of as a joke, as the time they were selling millions of albums along with sold out concerts. More recently there have been bands which combine hip hop with hardcore metal. I wonder what The Sugar Hill Gang thinks of them????