Hip Hop aint Dead.. It just went underground

[Notorioushnic]

Within the past few months . We've had dope retail albums or free albums(Im not calling them mixtapes) from
Freddie Gibbs Baby Face Killa
Chino XL Ricasurruction
Xzibit Napalm
Alley Boy's Gift of Discernment
Nas Life is Good
Lupe Food and Liquor 2
SkyZoo's latest
Big Sean Detroit
Flocka's Salute me or Shoot me 4(GREAT for the whip and the club)
Slaughterhouse-On the House(Mixtape)
Killer Mike-Rap Album

fukk the Mainstream, Thats been dead since 2007 as far as Im concerned. Theres cats thats still putting that groundwork on the lower scale. Now if they elminate the mixtape game then THATS where we should worry about the sky falling but until then. enjoy the music. Theres always gonna be dope shyt coming out as long as theres a blackmarket

 

[ManBearPig]

i think Nas was talking about New York than hip hop in general.

Nas was just pissed that his previous album "street's disciple" didnt do as well as he expected and try to blame it on the south.

hip hop was never dead.

 

[The Jewnited States]

wu tang is fo eva

 

[Notorioushnic]

i think Nas was talking about New York than hip hop in general.

Nas was just pissed that his previous album "street's disciple" didnt do as well as he expected and try to blame it on the south.

hip hop was never dead.

It also depends on what you check for. Me personally I dont listen to radio like that or the mainstream for that matter. It be really nice for radio to actually provide balance and actually give newer guys who really bout talent some shine but until then we got the underground and the mixtape market to fall back on and eat off of because best believe if that option gets cut then Hip Hop is truly dead

 

[The_Third_Man]

i think Nas was talking about New York than hip hop in general.

Nas was just pissed that his previous album "street's disciple" didnt do as well as he expected and try to blame it on the south.

hip hop was never dead.

Nas never blamed the south. Hiphop is better now than it was in 2005-2006 imo

 

[Turenne]

Again, the problem is (a) people are constantly comparing now to the past (mid 90s for example) which is bound to skew your view of the genre as it is right now and (b) people are obsessed with records sales/who is on the radio more then listening to good music.

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

Within the past few months . We've had dope retail albums or free albums(Im not calling them mixtapes) from
Freddie Gibbs Baby Face Killa
Chino XL Ricasurruction
Xzibit Napalm
Alley Boy's Gift of Discernment
Nas Life is Good
Lupe Food and Liquor 2
SkyZoo's latest
Big Sean Detroit
Flocka's Salute me or Shoot me 4(GREAT for the whip and the club)
Slaughterhouse-On the House(Mixtape)
Killer Mike-Rap Album

fukk the Mainstream, Thats been dead since 2007 as far as Im concerned. Theres cats thats still putting that groundwork on the lower scale. Now if they elminate the mixtape game then THATS where we should worry about the sky falling but until then. enjoy the music. Theres always gonna be dope shyt coming out as long as theres a blackmarket

Big Sean is signed to Kanye.
Gibbs is signed to Young Jeezy.
Alley Boy is signed to a major.
Flocka is signed to Brocksquad.
T.I. is linked with Killer Mike, no?
Nas, Lupe, Xzibit are all signed to majors.
Slaughterhouse is signed to Eminem.

You need to reexamine your definition of "underground", b

 

[prophecypro]

Nas never blamed the south. Hiphop is better now than it was in 2005-2006 imo

This.
Dude was quick to point out he never blame the south....it was certain southern DJs who took offense to it.


And you're right, since the blog era/freshmen class of 2008 a lot of the younger rappers have been more focused on using their mixtapes as actual underground albums and the quality has gotten better.

 

[Funcrusher]

Big Sean is signed to Kanye.
Gibbs is signed to Young Jeezy.
Alley Boy is signed to a major.
Flocka is signed to Brocksquad.
T.I. is linked with Killer Mike, no?
Nas, Lupe, Xzibit are all signed to majors.
Slaughterhouse is signed to Eminem.

You need to reexamine your definition of "underground", b

This. If you're gonna talk about how hiphop went underground you'll need to take some names off that list and add some others. I agree with your thread title, but your list doesn't back it up at all.

 

[Juneya]

nikkas really missed what he meant by hip hop is dead... it really went over nikkas heads... and they ran with it anyway

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Is this 1999?

 

[BlackZilla]

Within the past few months . We've had dope retail albums or free albums(Im not calling them mixtapes) from
Freddie Gibbs Baby Face Killa
Chino XL Ricasurruction
Xzibit Napalm
Alley Boy's Gift of Discernment
Nas Life is Good
Lupe Food and Liquor 2
SkyZoo's latest
Big Sean Detroit
Flocka's Salute me or Shoot me 4(GREAT for the whip and the club)
Slaughterhouse-On the House(Mixtape)
Killer Mike-Rap Album

The bolded guys suck.

I agree with your point however, but you haven't really pointed out that many underground artists.

 

[Ziggiy]

i think Nas was talking about New York than hip hop in general.

Nas was just pissed that his previous album "street's disciple" didnt do as well as he expected and try to blame it on the south.

hip hop was never dead.

Streets Disciple sold 250K first week and went platinum with NO top 40 singles bruh


"Ain't got NOTHIN to do with East coast/West Coast/Dirty South. This here is about US"

 

[Greenhornet]

1**

 

[jdagga]

Hip hop is doing fine.. Every show i've been to the past year have been packed and thats whats artists eat off