Trance replaced rap for me YEARS ago. I got into the scene in 1983 when I became a B-boy. In 1988 at the age of 12, I got my 1st turntable, and wrote and recorded my first track. From there it was about "rappin" all day and all night. Around 1999 I lost the love almost completely. Shitheads like Cash Money and "the dirrrty south" poisoned what I loved and grew up with.
With trance (I've ALWAYS said this), I still get the same punchy, constant beats, it is not mainstream in the US at least, turntablism is still a key ingredient, and artists get together to do remixes and collaborations, that's what rap & trance have in common.
Today, I bought my 1st rap CD in a year, only averaging 1 per year unlike 20 in previous years. I think today's rap fans are kids who somehow stumbled into it, rather that seeing it evolve from it's roots. I hope hip hop as a whole heals itself one day. 
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