5 Reasons Why Hip-Hop is Dead

[phatpat]

1. No originality - has anyone noticed all the beats - regardless if you are Westcoast, Eastcoast, South sound almost exactly the same, with the same 808 snares and claps - and the same corny Triton synths.
2. Generic subject matter in all the songs - hoes, money, grills, pimpin, shooting clubbing zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
3. Too many old rappers past their peak still releasing albums: Snoop, Jay-z, Nas, Ghostface, Dogg Pound - These rappers had albums out 10 years ago.
4. The so called new generation are wack - Lil Wayne + Jeezy + Juelz are okay, not great.
5. Ludacris won a grammy for the rap album of the year - and that album was GARBAGE - says something about state of hip-hop.

[GangstaBoogy]

1. I agree (for the most part)
2. I agree
3. Besides Nas, I a gree
4. Fuck no, Lil Wayne is hot!
5. Although true, that has nothing to do with hip hop being dead.

[ABN]

do you know what hip hop is? rap is rap but rap is not hip hop. how could hip hop be dead when i step outside of my building there´s graffiti all over the place, kids breakdancing and rapping etc etc?

[eazye]

I've only heard some tracks from Ghastface's albums last year, and I'm absolutely sure he's FAR from the reason why "hip-hop is dead".Ghostface can still compete with the greatest of all time in Hip-Hop.And from what I've heard from Blue Carpet, album ain't bad at all.

[eazye]

do you know what hip hop is? rap is rap but rap is not hip hop. how could hip hop be dead when i step outside of my building there´s graffiti all over the place, kids breakdancing and rapping etc etc?

+3

[Westdog]

Ice Cube is still cool,ice-t,the game,nas. Snoop is not gangsta anymore,just pimpin.What about Luda--his album is not great.fuck grammy!

[ecrazy]

do you know what hip hop is? rap is rap but rap is not hip hop. how could hip hop be dead when i step outside of my building there´s graffiti all over the place, kids breakdancing and rapping etc etc?

+3

^Agree!

Fuck people who say Hip Hop Is dead

[Lex Boooger]

hip hop isn't dead people just listen to the radio and watch mtv too much and you're just jealous because Ludacris's album >>>>>>>>> your favorite west coast artists album last year

[Westdog]

Hip-Hop needs second 2pac! .....Now : only bling-bling,girls,money - all this wack

[rik]

"Hip Hop ain't dead it's on sick leave, I nursed it back to health on my cd"

[thisoneguy360]

3. Too many old rappers past their peak still releasing albums: Snoop, Jay-z, Nas, Ghostface, Dogg Pound - These rappers had albums out 10 years ago.

Past there prime but that doesn't mean they shouldn't rap anymore

[Hatesrats™]

Bottomline...

Hip-Hop is not dead, Just us older folk who grew up on the N.W.A.'s
Eazy-E, Saw "Beat Street" bashed "Breakin'" for selling out (remember that).

Listened to the entire rise & fall of the West Coast
The Cube's, Deathrow ect..

We are all grown up now.
This music ain't for us anymore, it's evolved for the next generation.
I admit to hating 99% of all new music out today.
the only hip-hop material I cop nowaday's is either an album from back in the day's
I might have lost or replacing, or a "new" album from a so called Washed up artist.
(Snoop, Cube, Nas, Jay-Z ect...)

Hip-Hop is not Dead....We just out grew it.
Everything that these kid's are doing has already been done & said before.

Hip-Hop is on repeat.

[4108]

lol you dont KNOW the value and how much weight the statement actually holds. This is because you do not have much of an idea of what Hiphop is because all of your five mentions are focued on one element. And your so called reasons of detroriation of those five mentions are harshly opinionated and bias. If anything, hiphop would be dead because people cant identify it for what it is..A CULTURE, One reason why its alive is Nas making us re-evaluate the statement and what hiphop means to us. OUTSIDE OF THAT,  its nothing more than a clever marketing gimmick. I mean why else would every rapper who had a problem with the statement be on a label ALONGSIDE Nas? That could be coincidence, then again so could Snoop/Eminem/Dre always releasing albums right before one and other.

1) dances are stiill present,
2) DJs still run the rap scenes in the streets (and because I still fuck with DJ Screwtapes)
3) There are quality rappers in my collection
4) There is graffiti on my schools and neighborhood

when all of the above just suddenly vanish I will account you for something.

[MediumL]

I wouldn't say hip hop is dead, just look at the New West coast. Bishop, Omar, Crooked, Ya Boy - a lot of talent that hasn't been seen for a while on the west coast. And the same is happening in other places; Lupe Fiasco in Chi, papoose, saigon, joell ortiz in the east.

[Wessia4LiaNia Chieee Chieee]

Why you tryna find reasons why hip hop is dead, when you could use your time and try to find why it is alive ?! Cause it's alive than never, if Nas released an album and a single with that name, doesn't matter that it is true! I consider Nas one of the greatest of all time, I put him 3rd place after Rakim and Immortal Technique, but that doesn't mean I consider Hip Hop is dead !

Pls tell me why there weren't any threads with Hip Hop is dead BEFORE Nas said it? Last year this time we were trippin about DPG getting toghether and now we claim they wack?!