Hip Hop Really Deserves to Die At This Point

[It is a mystery]

Folks will never move on, elevate the game, or focus on fixing the issues. Yet, will clutch pearls and bytch when the machine (AI) does what humans failed to do.

how exactly is soulless ai music going to "elevate the game" or "fix issues"

 

[mson]

nikkas really having temper tantrums because shyt isn't going they way they want

Isn't that the #1 reason people have tantrums?

 

[3rdWorld]

Nas said it was officially dead in 2006, 18 years ago.

So for 18 years now its been Walking Dead status...barely breathing but still hobbling along like a fukking zombie.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Fought for white validation
Fought for label deals
Fought to be on MTV

Didn’t think them Honkeys wouldn’t have a plan for you and your precious beats, rhymes & life?

No change is instant in life. Maybe you look back fondly at a seminal moment that helped to get us here.

Old people are something else lol

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

People in this thread keep losing the plot and are worried about gatekeeping something that was sold away to others back in the late '80s.


Doesn't matter who the face of the "culture" is.



Melanated faces in high places don't equate to equal status



You can't control what you no longer own

Absolutely

Middle Management ain’t speaking at the “Officer Meeting”

 

[Da King]

Yeah it’s dead

 

[King Poetic]

The music is too much saturated today

I have no problem with the change of rap from the 80s, to the 90s, early 2000s because a lot of rappers had different styles to them..the problem today is everyone sounding the same with mumble rap mix with autotune..

Also u add the fact a nikka from Arkansas, Mississippi, Cali, NY , Florida, Chicago etc etc sound just like a nikka in Atlanta..same look, same future/lil baby sound and same ass topics…

 

[Red Money]

That's little bro.

We're from two different generations and he sees it too. The thing is, I can't fault too many of the other younger dudes because they don’t know any better. This is all they know. A first grader today is probably not gonna be a Slick Rick and PE fan like I was, lol. So they don’t have the same standard. Problem is, they don’t want to go back and dig through the old classics either. Ageism is what's killed that for them now. We didn't have a problem with going back to find older music to learn more about it and discover. Today, they don’t even want to bother with anything other than what's going on right now. You see it on here, we're talking Hip Hop, and how many times did we see dudes bringing up age? You didn't see that happening back in the day. It's just a new way to divide the people up. And it's clearly working. Because like Questlove said, the minute you try to put someone younger on to something, the new comeback is to call you "old". That's "Hip Hop" today.

But you're right, it's not about living in the past, at all. It has everything to do with not lower your standard and expectations for something you used to see operating at a very high level. This whole sh*t is really on life support right now. I was in the barbershop yesterday. We're all doing our usual sh*t talking. The new Nas joint came up. Kid was in there saying Nas was "boring and for the old people". Dude was 25!! Not 6 years old, lol. We threw names at him. Nas, Jay, Pac, B.I.G., on and on. He said these are "old school rappers" and they're not for him. So today, they write off actual legends and refuse to go back and listen to them. Because they feel that's not from "their time". So they have mad classics and artists they won't expose themselves to because it's not current. And then we wonder why they don’t have a clue about how trash things are today. We can't get mad at them, but ignorance is what they operate under now.

Too much hip hop content to go far back? Plus so much other content on the Internet.

And many of these kids parents grew up on hip hop so it probably seems extra old. A 50year old with a 10year old all listen to hip hop....that age gap was a different genre back in the day.

 

[Sean7]

We need it to come back and time to time you get an album but usually not one that catches on with the heads who purchase albums........
It's been artistically dead for a while though for the most part, especially the dumbed down mainstream artists It's done for the most part at this point.

 

[ObsidianDev]

Another thing that caused rap music to go downhill was street dudes being allowed to infiltrate the genre en mass.

Creativity and skill were pushed aside for "realness" and tough guy posturing, which led to the super thug era filled with legitimates and posers alike, which dumbed it down.

The irony is that while the street dudes became revered, they -- back then and to this day -- merely view rap as a hustle, not as an art form.

 

[DrexlersFade]

Lucrative for who? The jews in the music industry? lol

Bruh for profucers engineers stage manager road managers I can go on better than working at the plant.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

how exactly is soulless ai music going to "elevate the game" or "fix issues"

Give me a long awaited Kendrick Lamar reply with special guest Shock G.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Black music in general is on life support

That's the sad part

 

[Mugenight]

Apparently...if you don't like modern hip hop/rap it means you're old.(32) A lot of you argue like women, It's interesting to see.

Today's music is simply not up to par but hey as long as greed is in play regression is here to stay.

 

[L. Deezy]

The music is too much saturated today

I have no problem with the change of rap from the 80s, to the 90s, early 2000s because a lot of rappers had different styles to them..the problem today is everyone sounding the same with mumble rap mix with autotune..

Also u add the fact a nikka from Arkansas, Mississippi, Cali, NY , Florida, Chicago etc etc sound just like a nikka in Atlanta..same look, same future/lil baby sound and same ass topics…

This....