Is Hip Hop Dead?

OP is racist as #&#@!!

Anyway, I hope mainstream hip hop is dead.

You've got great hip hop artists like Lauryn Hill:


Then you have.. "2Chains" *shudders*

In the last generation, Blacks had poetic, intelligent, cultured, and empowering artist like Erykah Badu:



People who embraced "Blackness" in a positive way, indivisualism, and didn't praise materialism.

Now Black youth are looking up to people like Nicki Minaj.

It's sad what's happening to American culture, no matter what race.

Last Edited by Kamon on 12/04/2012 03:03 PM

no, a lot of rappers are positive; esoteric. whatever, they just aren't as popular. it makes sense.

Rolls Royce cars aren't as popular as honda civics

Beauty is in the eye of they beholder my fellow earthling. I know i embody some ideas of Hip-HOp in the physical mental and spiritual planes we both received at the moment of conception. Know as a linguistic lyrical lover perhaps i can break it down in terms you may understand.

Now lets get on the topic of hamburgers. Mcdonalds makes a pretty basic hamburger plain cheap and made by a corporate machine. OK now your moms makes a bomb bacon cheese burger with love and care just for your pallet but, your homie has never eaten a burger like that so he says "All hamburgers are shity and generic" but your like "you have never eaten my OG Burger bro".

Now there you have it i see what you don't because i have listened and lived to real hip hop where you have proven to me you haven't by quoting what you think it is. I think you just don't like the STYLE of Hip-Hop you have been exposed to.

Rap is something you do hip-hop is something you live- KRS-ONE


Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
Method Man

I have come to the conclusion that this is not even about music its about people. Its sad that one of the most awakened places on the web still harbors such hatred towards fellow humans who suffer in the same ways we all do everyday. Where is the empathy at?

hahared 7 and a mewtwo quote, it's easy to be empathetic when you're young and have no more than a couple responsibilities. the world is tiring on the heart.. forgive us

Typical hip-hop bum talk. Talk and talk, but doesn't say anything.

Your so fuccin confused...

What do you mean? I was talking to you. Typical Hip-hop bum notice how i didn't come at you sideways player.

Regardless of the assumptions made by many people will get down.

when i say GL you say P
GL!

p!

I've been listening hip hop for 15 years...man...it used to be great genre...

nowdays they all bitches, fakers, actors(bad)
man just look at that faker Ross, 2chainz, white boi jew drake and all these fakers...pop hop...same fckin beats, same fckin bars...he a boss, he got money, he fucks your bitch,...man they old dudes talking and bragging like kids in primary school...they just sad and people be falling for that shit.

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS UNDERGROUND DOES NOT MEAN ITS DEAD!

So they are playing it in the underground bases.............

K'naan's song that they used for the World Cup was good.

Hip hop is the culture.

Rap is the music.

The purpose is to use it as a platform to share ideas. While the plan has gone awry in regards to most radio songs being about the same trivial garbage, that's not to say it isn't still used for it's initial purpose. The only people who "killed" hip hop are the ones who continue to insist that it's dead.

Most will agree that Pac was\is one of the most respected artists of all time. The reason for it is that he didn't just preach to the choir, but instead, gained fame and exposed a lot of issues in America at the time. He's brought more attention to the existence of the Illuminati (or whatever you wish to call the proverbial PTB) than the combined efforts of everyone on GLP.

One good lethal pandemic and any of these scenes, movements, subcultures, etc. will be irrelevant. People won't be able to rhyme, rap, play instruments or anything else when they are dying in large quantities while the survivors have their brain stems ravaged by virus and fever.

Really, any scenes or trends are irrelevant in the long run. When the crematoriums are filled to capacity, the current world we inhabit will be but a memory for those whose hippocampus glands aren't destroyed.

Isn't that a fun thought???

It's transformed from a genre of music to a culture and therefore we be with us permanently.

Low frequency noise for low frequency beings.....

God I hope so, never heard such shit in my life, that some people dared call music...All computer generated crap, no body plays an instrument.

Can they compare to the endless list of musicians in the 60's who spent countless hours practicing as kids.

And notice all the super groups from the 70's are still known and loved...Even the way they dressed...What will rap dudes look like in 50 yrs...Baggy ass pants and all...No one will even remember rap!!!

For example:

The song "Since I've been loving you, by LZ.

Also

The base player for the trammps, just watch him play bass on disco inferno.

It is not dead but it is definitely going through a transition like it did in the 90's. Its crossing all borders and genres and evolving into something more. Its breaking down barriers while maintaining its roots. Not toi be a thread killer, but it is alive and well. I see videos of diferent artist everywhere, most recently Italy, Spain, Turkey not counting the huge Asian swath of artists. Its a good time to be in hp/hp.

Its dead? .... Oh.

I miss the good rap or hip hop or whatever you call it, early outkast is some of my favorite stuff in that genre.