Are the best days of hip-hop behind us?

[Minkaveli]

I was driving and this question came to me as I was listening to some Tribe Called Quest.  Are the best days of hip-hop behind us?  Are there artists of the future currently that can carry the torch or will the industry now be based around flavors of the month?

I say there are some artists that can do that but I am concerned about the direction of the music.

[West Coast Veteran]

We will never have Hip Hop as great as it was from '88-'96. Never again. I put anything on that.

[3rd Coast]

aint shit wrong with hip hop...

if people quit tryin 2 be a critic bout whats good n whats not...and jus accept it for what it is..like they did back in the day...

i remember back then regardless who it was when the south was booty music..it got played n u didnt hear shit bout another coast or artist killin hip hop

[eazye]

Man, a lot has changed in the pest 10-12 years, but although I don;t really check all of it, quality stuff stays comming out

In the past 2-3 months there have been solid releases from Termanology, Reks, Nas, Murs, People Under The Stairs, Heltah Skeltah, DJ Revolution, DJ K.O., Jake One, Large Professor...and throught the year one can find more examples.One just has to dig to find quality stuff, but I can agree with one thing:all of the above mentioned make great music, but not much shit has touched me when listening to it like 90's or 80's hip-hop.but that's just me

[Elevz]

Are the best days of Michael Jackson behind us? Are the best days of the cassette player behind us?

[NillerTheKid]

Man, a lot has changed in the pest 10-12 years, but although I don;t really check all of it, quality stuff stays comming out

In the past 2-3 months there have been solid releases from Termanology, Reks, Nas, Murs, People Under The Stairs, Heltah Skeltah, DJ Revolution, DJ K.O., Jake One, Large Professor...and throught the year one can find more examples.One just has to dig to find quality stuff, but I can agree with one thing:all of the above mentioned make great music, but not much shit has touched me when listening to it like 90's or 80's hip-hop.but that's just me

Solid (releases) is the is the word. None of those albums are classics, back in the day, you couldn't count the classics coming every year. Been too long since the last real hiphop classic

[BIG D O]

yes, but they don't have to be.....

it'll never be another mid 90's tho man.....those were the days.....

There are few big name artist's out now that really give you the feeling that they can turn things around....

[Black Excellence]

hell no hip hop will always live. no matter how many weak fucks come out. there's still a large amount of good emcees, producers ,and d.j.s  out there.

[Man On The Moon]

There's been a whole lot of good hip hop coming out lately.

It's gonna be fine..

[Crockett]

they will always be behind us jsut as long as these amuter critics keep puting down the "old" cats and buying utter shit like 50 or jay z back in the 90s the good shit was undergroudn and the wack shit was new jack swining all over the fuckin place...... 50 cent jay z gayyay west is the  new jack swing

[penenstamp]

I wouldn't be surprised if some people here think that hip hop is at its peak right now (i.e. Big Sadot, Lunatic, C. Material, Al Bundy), but me... I think there's no telling. Music (hip hop) evolves 24/7. Mainstream rap has sunk very low, but if you look further than that there's still a lot of good stuff... In the (near) future there could be artists that step up the plate and blow us away. Who knows!

[Black Excellence]

I wouldn't be surprised if some people here think that hip hop is at its peak right now (i.e. Big Sadot, Lunatic, C. Material, Al Bundy), but me... I think there's no telling. Music (hip hop) evolves 24/7. Mainstream rap has sunk very low, but if you look further than that there's still a lot of good stuff... In the (near) future there could be artists that step up the plate and blow us away. Who knows!

it's definitely not at it's peak silly. but it's still some good artists, producers, and dj's out there.

[Elevz]

Well, the best days of the dvd are also behind us, but that doesn't mean you can't go out and buy yourself a dvd because it has become totally worthless... Same with hiphop. It's still here, just not as much at a peak as it was in the early 90s.

[corner_boy]

We will never have Hip Hop as great as it was from '88-'96. Never again. I put anything on that.

[M Dogg™]

Hip-Hop is a culture, not just music. And it's more Hip-Hop now than in 1993, when then it was gangsta and now it's back to party music, the way it should be. Is Hip-Hop Dead, no, Hip-Hop is coming back.