Why "real" hip hop died in the late 90's early 2000's

[KingX]

the problem with old school and "real hip hop" is that you need to fukking sit there and try to decipher the shyt and in this day and age it's all about instant gratification, and when you do decipher the shyt it's a bunch of corny ass do the right thing bullshyt

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

A hip de hop de hip de hipppy boo boo babba baba shibibi dibibiy be deeeeee

fukk outta here you old ass remember the times ass nikkas

This song came out in 1985........



....and this one in 1986....



....and this one in 1987.....



....and this one in 1989....



Sit your young-azz down......
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[MrPentatonic]

this makes me wonder what kind of genre will be the sound of the youth in the future when hiphop goes the way of jazz, blues and other genres black people created

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

this makes me wonder what kind of genre will be the sound of the youth in the future when hiphop goes the way of jazz, blues and other genres black people created

Unless they learn to play instruments, it'll be wack since their budgets won't be able to buy samples and all the music will remind you of every album Canibus put out.
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[Vagina Thief]

Ay... in the late-90s/early 2000s, all the older artists learned what every artist before them had to learn too: their time was over. Wasn't necessarily their fault, wasn't anybody's fault. It just happened, like it always does. No matter how great something is/was, there'll be a time it becomes the old way of doing things, and something else will replace it.

I'm sure there were people from the Motown era that LOVED that sound, and hated 80s R&B and ESPECIALLY rap. But that Motown sound, no matter how classic it is, was gone by then. And so was the 70s soul era. So the old school way of hip-hop also changed and became less relevant. The sound/style switched, it's switched since then, and it'll switch again.

There's no real reason for WHY it changed, it just did... everything before it changed, and it was no different. "Real hip-hop" was another certain era/sound that wiped out something before it, and then other things wiped it out... and someday "trap" shyt won't be poppin' anymore either.

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[Don Dada F Poppa]

Ay... in the late-90s/early 2000s, all the older artists learned what every artist before them had to learn too: their time was over. Wasn't necessarily their fault, wasn't anybody's fault. It just happened, like it always does. No matter how great something is/was, there'll be a time it becomes the old way of doing things, and something else will replace it.

I'm sure there were people from the Motown era that LOVED that sound, and hated 80s R&B and ESPECIALLY rap. But that Motown sound, no matter how classic it is, was gone by then. And so was the 70s soul era. So the old school way of hip-hop also changed and became less relevant. The sound/style switched, it's switched since then, and it'll switch again.

There's no real reason for WHY it changed, it just did... everything before it changed, and it was no different. "Real hip-hop" was another certain era/sound that wiped out something before it, and then other things wiped it out... and someday "trap" shyt won't be poppin' anymore either.

That's just evolution. People grow, ideas about how you approach a concept changes, nothing stays the same forever. Rap music, no matter how commercial or left field it might go, still holds the same core its always held. Rap itself hasn't changed much since BDK first hit the scene, just the sounds involved in it. Its the same as football, the transition from power running, to teams spreading the ball out more, to teams running no huddle spread versions of the same core concepts. Nothing really changes, just the way its approached changes. If that makes sense

 

[The_Third_Man]

listen to Marky Mark and the funky bunch then

 

[Funcrusher]

'Real' hiphop didn't die, it just became less visible.

 

[DaveyDave]

the problem with old school and "real hip hop" is that you need to fukking sit there and try to decipher the shyt and in this day and age it's all about instant gratification, and when you do decipher the shyt it's a bunch of corny ass do the right thing bullshyt

bullshyt, Run DMC were hardly complex metaphor heavy hard-to-decipher rappers

 

[MilesTeg]

I agree 90's rap was the best and it got more commercial in the 00's.

But there's still good music and great young rappers coming up now.

That "hip hop is dead" mentality is really stupid to me. A musical genre can't "die."

I also hate when people say "oh, that isn't real hip hop." If you don't like a song, it's not "real hip hop"? F-ck off.

 

[KingX]

this makes me wonder what kind of genre will be the sound of the youth in the future when hiphop goes the way of jazz, blues and other genres black people created

dubstep

 

[Tom Foolery]

The money dried up.

A good underground act use to be able to push between 200,000 to 500,000 in sales. When computers came and people started copying albums, labels stopped investing in pure hip-hop artist.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

dubstep

I'm thinking the same thing......



Great Britain got that on-lock, though, for now.
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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

the problem with old school and "real hip hop" is that you need to fukking sit there and try to decipher the shyt and in this day and age it's all about instant gratification, and when you do decipher the shyt it's a bunch of corny ass do the right thing bullshyt

We were too busy having fun to try and decipher anything.

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[concise]

Unless they learn to play instruments, it'll be wack since their budgets won't be able to buy samples and all the music will remind you of every album Canibus put out.
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