What happend to soul music?

[Evil Chris]

I grew up on the Niagara Peninsula listening to the music the adults around me were playing, and much of it was soul music.

The Delfonics, Al Green, The Chi-Lites, The Spinners, Curtis Mayfield, The Stylistics, Marvin Gaye, The O'Jays... etc etc..

This kind of music just isn't made anymore. It seems that soulful R&B has been replaced almost completely by rap.