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Where were you the day hip-hop died?

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Don Seer:


also pretty sure this guy is infinite :D

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: Westside Soldier on November 22, 2004, 12:54:23 AM ---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. ;D


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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

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