Is There Anything Good in Rap-Rock?

Aerosmith did that song with Run-DMC, Anthrax did aand POD are still around after coming into the limelight
few, 311 made it a little different by bringing in somearound the same time. All of these groups have
groove, Faith No More blew everyone away withmoved away from their original sound rather quickly
"Epic", and then Limp Bizkit dropped the standard withsince 2000.
weak songs starting a trend of a lot of mediocreWhat about Bloodhound Gang? There is a group I can
rap-rock bands hitting the mainstream.enjoy because they didnt even come close to taking
What ever happened to Limp Bizkit anyway? Ithemselves seriously, and the music was decent.
researched this a little and it turns out they are stillMaybe in a similar vein is Mindless Self Indulgence but
around. They has that strange guitarist quit on them,really, I doubt you could count them as Rap-Rock.
taking away a lot of their energy and probablyBut with all these groups I have mentioned, have any
anything remarkable at all about them. Eventually, theyof them topped or equaled the quality of this fusion as
recovered and hired a new guitarist, only to bring theAnthrax (or Aerosmith) did? Why not? Maybe they
original guitarist back in 2003 and quit again in 2006.are just DIFFERENT, and not better or worse? Maybe
Korn was called rap-rock, but I just don't see it. Theysince it was a huge market in the 90s as compared to
had influences from rap obviously, but the vocals makethe 80s, too many labels were influencing the types of
them simply a nu-metal band. I would say the same forsongs released, making them a lot more mainstream
slipknot. However, Korn was very open to talkingthan the older stuff?
about their hip-hop influences, probably contributing a lotThey're all valid questions and I after a great deal of
to the mid-late 90s trends.research I have not found the answer. This may not
You may remember Rage Against the Machine whobe the huge trend now, but this is still and active genre.
debuted their first album in 1992, but they didnt haveWhere are the bands that are doing this right? I hope
major success till their second album released in 1996.we see someone bring the genre back to the quality
Certainly talented musicians, they made their mark byof the early attempts.
mixing a lot of different genres. Linkin Park, Kid Rock,