Was hip-hop ever truly dead?
- Thread starter Neuromancer
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hip-hop has never died yall just got old
More like got older, matured, and expanded our music selection. Regardless though, its painfully obvious the music is not getting better for the most part. Way too much saturation to the point of it being so overwhelming that the genre as a whole looks bad. To be straight with you its almost embarrassing. I'll be honest with you, if you dig the Migos, I probably look down on you as a person and as a man. Even white boys are asking when did Hip Hop get so bad? Watching BET Jams is like watching white paint dry. No creativity, too many 35mm videos, too many homosexuals, too many Travis Scott clones, too many 2 Chains flows, too many Mike Will imitation beats, etc.. Its just bad right now.
Lets be honest too, for the most part, this generation of "artists" really aren't talented. Compared to actual musicians, you know with instruments, the modern day rapper and producer is an embarrassment. The listeners are embarrassments too, thank God one doesn't have to work with or live around them.
The rappers you are thinking about weren't popular because they were lyrical.90's mainstream HipHop was very lyrical and then was stalled with the Shiny Suit Era but picked back up with the higher end underground/semi mainstream acts like Talib, Mos Def, Monch etc by the late 90's and early 2000s..HipHops lyricism by the mid 2000's because of the popularity of Crunk turned into almost nothing more than Chants and Call & Response which is/was part of the reason why Nas said HipHop was dead
They were popular cause they knew how to make great music.
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
I never said they were popular because of lyrics only I said they were semi mainstream to mainstream while being lyrical while when Crunk and it's offsprings started taking over in the mid-2000s, mainstream rap that was on the airwaves and being promoted was mainly chanted with call and response and not lyrical based. Now, one can make good music with just chants and call and response (that's what Go-Go was and early pre-recording HipHop) but that was a step backwards to most heads who are into lyrics and what Rap had progressed into.
HE_Pennypacker
Superstar
Nah it just lacked balance when someone gave those retarded Soulja Boy-esque special Ed dudes record deals.
Trapperman Dave
Basil Fawty
The autotune era
couldn't even listen to radio especially wayne with that lollipop songLolnah man its alive and well, we got guys like young thug, uzi boozy, THE GAME, and many more great artists
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
Hip Hop "dies" whenever a new generation/region/sound starts to take over....and nobody wants to hear the shyt you were rapping about anymore.
This. I've been saying to myself recently hip-hop is going through a mix of what jazz and moreso rock went through. The subgenres have yet to be categorized as such and gets thrown in as "hip-hop" when really its some other shyt.
I can't speak for other (semi-)purists but I'd probably appreciate a lot of shyt more if it was categorized differently.
allow major labels to control the available talent and this is what you get, the so called age of classics in the 90s was when nikkas held creative control over their own shyt and handled their careersindependently, etc Death Row, Early Rocafella, Horrorcore Memphis, The Screwed Up Click Down in Texas. By the 2000s, all that died, and began the rise of commercialized rap music where radio play was the main objective and since radio only plays upbeat music and caters to primarily woman, the actual sound and style of the music started to transform into what we currently have today. Nigggas dont even rap anymore, melody is the focus; songs are 70% hook with mumbling in between
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Big Mel
@bigboss
It flatlined in 1997-1998 and never recovered.