March 17, 2016 | 2:10 PM
Gene Simmons, who has long been critical of Rap, has again dissed the genre.
“I am looking forward to the death of Rap,” the Kiss singer says during an interview withRolling Stone. “I’m looking forward to music coming back to lyrics and melody, instead of just talking. A song, as far as I’m concerned, is by definition lyric and melody … or just melody.”
In 2014, Simmons complained about the induction of Rap acts into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“You’ve got Grandmaster Flash in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?” the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member said at the time of 2007 inductees Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. “Run-DMC in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? You’re killing me. That doesn’t mean those aren’t good artists. But they don’t play guitar. They sample and they talk. Not even sing.”
In the new interview with Rolling Stone, Simmons also predicts the end of Rap.
“Rap will die,” he says. “Next year, 10 years from now, at some point, and then something else will come along. And all that is good and healthy.
“I don’t have the cultural background to appreciate being a gangster,” Simmons adds elsewhere in the interview. “Of course that’s not what it’s all about, but that’s where it comes from. That’s the heart and soul of it. It came from the streets.”
