Hip Hop is NOT dead?

Y is every1 sayin hip hop is dead. just bcuz sum rappers rap bout money and hos and bing pimps dont mean hip hop dead. if u think hip hop dead then u also think rock is dead cuz all of dat yellin and goth lyrics. u might also think country,pop,and all genres r dead 2. so all u ppl who say hip hop is dead SHUT UP! Bcuz u think hip hop dead then MUSIC DEAD! Right?

Hip Hop is NOT dead?
you are dumb


first learn proper grammar then come back and try to make an arguement


that's why hip hop is dead


people like you support these fake azz rappers
Reply:damn it..it's alive again..better get the shotgun out...There's a zombie going around....
Reply:i listen to every style of music except country. my cd collection numbers well into the thousands, not to mention whatever ive got downloaded on my computer, and the music ive got spans decades. and yeah, hip hop, in its purest form, is dead. this stuff out now....i dont know what that is, but its not the hip hop i first knew. hip hop used to be creative. there used to be lyrics about stuff that actually matterd, with beats that didnt drive people crazy. now a days, it all sounds the same. all you have to do now a days to be a rapper is think of one phrase you can repeat over and over and say it over a beat (this is why im hot, party like a rockstar, like this, my lip gloss is poppin....)...my grandmother could come up with better rhymes...if hip hop isnt dead, its gonna be soon unless someone comes up with something cool and fresh soon. do me a favor. check out Looptroop, and Promoe....thats real hip hop still. those guys constantly come up with something fresh ive never heard before, every time they come out with a new cd. untill someone here in the states comes up with something that fresh and hot, im gonna say that yes, hip hop is pretty much dead
Reply:Most music is dead. To be popular in mainstream rap, you have to be a gangsta or a pimp, to be popular in rock you have to be a gothic guy, who's life is so horrible (yeah, right), etc. It all sounds the same. They both need a couple of acts that are creative and get mainstream play. Very few have been able to do this. Only OutKast, Gnarls Barkley, and Linkin Park (Until recently) have been creative and mainstream at the same time.
Reply:Yes it is. This crap thats coming out now is worthless. Look at Mims. For some reason hes making millions of dollars for saying 5 words over and over. Im tired of talentless people getting millions while the talented are left scraping for money. Crunk needs to be killed. I miss the days when hip hop had meaning not just look at my money look at how im wasting my money on putting shiny in my mouth. Crunk is the murderer of hip hop. What happened to making quality music with meaning? Thats what hip hop was about. Now its just how much money can i make by writing about how hot i think i am. So yes, HIP HOP IS DEAD AND HAS BEEN DEAD SINCE 1999!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Reply:Hip Hop is not “dead” per say, but it has lost some of its appeal. I’ve been around long enough to see how Hip Hop used to be, how it’s evolved through the years and what it’s become. I can tell you that it has lost “something.” Part of this has to do with the lack of creativity. Everyone wants to be like everyone else, I don’t see much individualism like I used to. Everything is so redundant. I mean really…how many times are we going to have to watch women bumpin T%26amp;A all up in the video, before someone says, “Enough already!! OK. I’ve seen this before, can we move on now…….?” Seriously, how boring is that? Also, Rappers nowadays are less conscience of what they rap about and seem to focus more on what they’re wearing, social status, and are overly trendy, appealing to only what’s HOT at the time. Therefore, music becomes disposable, since what may be HOT today, could very well be obsolete tomorrow. But if I blame anyone, I blame Clear Channel/Viacom. They will not allow equal airplay to Underground Artists, who are creative and more socially responsible, than say 50 cent or Nelly. If it doesn’t have anything to do with pimpin or hustling money, women, than they don’t play it. Period. Anyway… for me, only listen to rap from the early to mid 90’s, because I get more of an artistic, underground vibe that you just don’t see today. Bottom line, Hip Hop is not totally dead, but it does need to be re-evaluated. Let me say one more thing, because I want to be fair to the younger generation. Maybe Hip Hop is the way it is today, because it’s just a “sign of the times” therefore really cannot be avoided. Well, if that is true, fine. But Hip Hop seems to turn over it’s style about every 5-10 yrs. And we are about 10 yrs into this “bling bling” pimpin stage (started around 96”) so, I think it’s time for it to turn over again and let’s move on to the “next stage” of this brilliant culture we call Hip Hop. Peace.
Reply:'ey yo, Hip hop is a terrible excuse for music.





Rock is not necessarily yelling... rock has wide and broad sub-genres.... if you're talking about yelling you're thinking hard rock or metal.





Rap? It's one genre basically. They make a beat and they speak rhymed lines... i've done it without even trying.
Reply:There no way you are older than 18 making a statement like that. You must be young, possible even born in the 90's. If you listened to hip hop during the 80's and early 90's, you'd know exactly why they say it's dead. Hip Hop has evolved into something that the pioneers of rap, and the original fans of rap cannot relate to whatsoever anymore. It's lost it's originality. It's spirit. I personally cannot identify with mainstream rap that's being produced now days.
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i cant listen to the radio anymore because all i hear is a bunch of nonsense. the mainstream stuff is a bunch of garbage. all these guys talk about is how much money they got, their chains, cars, women they sleep with, or doin some stupid dance. these guys aint sayin anything positive.


btw, record sales of been down for a few years now, but ring tone sales have been up.


hip hop needs a revival
Reply:I think it is dead
Reply:Yeah Hip-Hop is Dead. Some people don't think that but everyone has their own opinion. I say Hip-Hop is dead becuase there aren't any rappers out there who are creative %26amp; don't have the love of hip-hop thy just care about the money. Anyone could pretty much be in the rap game now. Everyone talks about the same thing %26amp; knowone has any skills either. Hip-Hop is also dead becuase of the increase in record sells. 2006 was the worst hip-hop selling year!!! So think about that also. Record sells are decreasing.
Reply:Nope, rock music isn't screaming that's heavy metal. Hip hop is not dead
Reply:Kinfolk Kia $hine said it best in his song "Wow" HIP HOP AINT DEAD, IT LIVES IN THE SOUTH!!
Reply:#1 bright eyes shut tha hell up, ur not funny.


#2 hunni calm down lol its not dead true but it sure is endangered. u gotta addmit theres not too many truely, undenieable talented HIP HOP artist out there but people that support that real stuff keep doin wat ur doin and maybe we can fully revive it!
Reply:Hip is Dead, hate it or love it. With all that crap coming out nowadays its dead.
Reply:hip hop is dead because it isn't what it was back in the 80s-90s only artists that are keepin hip hop alive are underground with no radio airplay or tv exposure heres an example of why its dead





"[Lil Wayne]


I'm just pimping


Baby you got a rule for me


Put your mink on and slide in a cool for me


Hey you gotta get high and go low for me


It's Cash Money young money never know money"





[Canibus]


"I'm the type of n*gga that'll prove it, produce sh*t


Spent so much time in the studio I had to move in


A soldier, who practices West Indian obia


I can drink the poison from a king cobra"








which one is better SERIOUSLY
Reply:so ur kinda saying music is dead but hip hop is dead
Reply:well people sayin hip hop is dead has nothin to do with any other genre, people who say hip hop is dead may not listen to rock or country so they wouldnt be qualified to make such a statement.....and its their opinion, they can say what they want to say...hip hop isnt all music....hip hop may not be dead, but look at the songs dominating airplays nowadays..its an opinional statement, if you dont think so then thats you, but if other people say it, thats their opinion...Personally I feel there are alot of talented artists who just dont get the shine of some radio/tv artists..for example, lupe fiasco's rhymes are better than almost all of the every day radio cats, but he just doesnt get the same exposure
Reply:damnit, i guess i'll hafta shoot it a few more times..
Reply:I'm getting tired of this argument!





If hip hop is dead, than great, stay dead!





LOL


Maybe black people will find something else to do.


I don't want to hear that bull**** excuse that the South killed it either.
Reply:hecks no it ain't dead.
Reply:Hip Hop is not dead it is more alive now than ever, thats why it is influencing the whole world, i agree cuz no genre of music sounds the same as it did when it was first originated

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