Where were you the day hip-hop died?

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.

[Don Breezio]

its a lot of work being an idiot isnt it?

[Kill]

That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.

lol

[Woodrow]

Welcome back infinite?

[white Boy]

^1st thing i thought wen i saw this

[davida.b.]

That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.

I think I'm gonna do what you did and put some quotes from this dude in my sig.

[Machiavelli]

Welcome back infinite?

Nah, he would of made a thread called:

"Where were you the day Israel was formed?"

[eS El Duque]

Um, in case you didn't realise, hiphop is very much still alive and kicking, you just need to go a little deeper than the stuff you hear on the radio and see on MTV 24/7.

co-sign...

co-co-sign... 

the truth is.. dont let -anyone- tell you what hiphop is.. find it for yourself..

coz hiphop isn't about following trends..

co-co-co sign the co-sign

[NobodyButMe]

That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.

lol yeah...this has got to be hajj...or, bka infinite

[Westside Soldier]

hip hop died in late 2001.By 2002 i noticed that rap was coming more commercial and by 2003 when i got a better computer and started reading and posting at forums that the music industry is interested in creating hit songs more then real music.Artists like E40 ,too short,spice 1 cant sell anymore cause they ain't considered mainstream and when 213 comes with groupy love which is a mainstream single the cd still didn't sell.show it goes to show that the west gets no love even if you gotta mainstream single and it gets played and promoted.

[Don Seer]

also pretty sure this guy is infinite

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

hip hop died in late 2001.By 2002 i noticed that rap was coming more commercial and by 2003 when i got a better computer and started reading and posting at forums that the music industry is interested in creating hit songs more then real music.Artists like E40 ,too short,spice 1 cant sell anymore cause they ain't considered mainstream and when 213 comes with groupy love which is a mainstream single the cd still didn't sell.show it goes to show that the west gets no love even if you gotta mainstream single and it gets played and promoted.

Word up!
Word life!

Word is definitely life.  Although we shouldn't be really concerned with dates, facts and figures (we are concerned with the reflection eternal)...  Still, I myself put the date at 2001 as well.  That's the year that, like you said, the lines between hip-hop and business, artform and entertainment, began to blurr so much so that it's hard to distinquish the real from the fake.  And thus hip-hop had a hard attack, and fell into a deep and permanent coma.

You were also complaining about record sales.  And I think that illegal internet downloading has played a role in that.  Those artists can't sell anymore.  Artists are getting desperate, and with hip-hop on life-support, artists are trying to follow that played out formula (club song, song about bitches, song about money, song about being a gangsta) doing anything the label says to get their album out.

RIP Hip-Hop.

[white Boy]

^ just a note.. as much as i like reflection eternal since it.. there have been many dope albums.. some less some more dope...

[C-Swift]

Hip-hop is not dead but many things artists do to sell albums need to die like having a song formula