damn what happened to hip hop?

[west koasting]

Damn I mean 2004 2005 you had game, lil flip came hard with game over in my opinion, young needy came out hard, then after that hip hop just went to lean with it rock with and its been a wrap after that.

[Sir Petey]

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

Lil Flip in 2004 sucked compared to Wiz Khalifa today.

[west koasting]

Im not hating in wiz I mean im a fan when he came out with say yeah, but flip and wiz are 2 way different from eachother to compare them to eachother.

[3rd Coast]

Lil Flip in 2004 sucked compared to Wiz Khalifa today.

nann...flip was everywhere n wreckin from like 99 to 2004...he had his run...alot may not like it...but he was in there...gold n platinum

wiz an entirely different rapper than what he was when dubcc did the 1st interview wit em

crazy how he took curren$y shit and ran with it..

wiz a one hit wonder...he aint gone around long as flip was

[Gamestarr]

uuhh.. it died? duuh. 

It just seems like there is no creativity left and 90% of all singles sound like what the labels want.

[Will_B]

Its all money and there are hardly any good producers to draw the best out out of these young pups. Yeah most of these new rappers think their shit don't stink, but who is developing them into better artists? Oh they don't need it? Oh really?

Nearly everything coming out of rap sounds cheap as fuck on production.

You got (mostly)..

No producers only beatmakers (cheap, and theres no synergy between the beatmaker and the artist)
No real studio time (cheap)
No real musicians (cheap) everything done on laptops
No samples being paid for (cheap) to use AND the real hiphop DJ skills are in decline, in danger of dying out completely..even scratches, and who is using them?? are done in software!!
No mixing and mastering, no decent hardcopies ..so many CD's I'm buying sounding like their mastered from mp3 (cheap)

To top that artsits even have to promote themselves on Twitter!! (cheap cheap cheap lol)


I'm not saying you can't get a good result spitting over a premade beat, but what happened to the art of making real music with the artist like a few years back..

From an interview with Bink!

"Kurupt - 'Girl Iz All Pause'

B: The Kurupt’s situation… You know the other record I did on his album is called 'Trilogy'. My manager at the time gave Kurupt a DAT of the 'Trilogy' beat and he immediately went to the studio and he did like a hundred bars down here. We were supposed to mix it in Philly. I came down there to mix the record with him. He wanted to spit the vocals over. We all agreed that it didn’t sound better and that we wanted to keep the original. So we had like four hours in the studio. I was there, Nate Dogg was there and Kurupt was there. I did 'Girl Iz All Pause' on the spot. We had that record done in three hours. It was crazy how we ended up making that record.


I could cry when I read stuff like that.
They made one of the best West Coast anthems from start to finish in 3 hours from a blank page.


Bring back real hiphop producers in the main and get them coaxing the best shit of the lucky rappers that get a chance to work with them.

Set standards don't follow.

[shoo]

u guys ever listen to non-mainstream rap?

[Will_B]

I think the only mainstream rap I listen to is Snoop..

[2euce 7even]

u guys ever listen to non-mainstream rap?

"...only underground funk bumpin outta my trunk"...

[BLUNTTYMECC]

please kill yourself if you think hip-hop is dead

[Soopahigh]

please kill yourself if you think hip-hop is dead

Mainstream hip hop is dead 
Underground hip hop is still alive 

[gio™fugahoo]

u guys ever listen to non-mainstream rap?

Yeahh cause it Looks like every "Mainstream"Rapper Lost His Passion and only goes for cash

[Gamestarr]

please kill yourself if you think hip-hop is dead

Mainstream hip hop is dead 
Underground hip hop is still alive 

So tell me what was the latest underground project to drop which was just mind blowing?

[Soopahigh]

Brotha lynch hung DAAM and CHS