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Is hip hop dead? Well, mainstream rap/hip hop pretty much is, but hip hop as a whole isn't. As long as somebody out there is doing it for the love of the music and not necessarily the money or the fame (and by "somebody," I mean the real emcees on the backburner and in the underground circuit), hip hop will never die.

As for who killed mainstream hip hop, it's my firm belief that Master P definitely put it in the ICU back in '95. It's the kind of rappers that followed that whole No Limit style/image ever since that put the final nail in the coffin.

And as for your last question, "why does anyone care," well to be honest, non-hip hop fans don't have to care as far as I'm concerned (especially since most of them don't feel the need to open their minds and look beyond the mainstream anyway). But the true hip hop fans do care. The fact of the matter is, ever since it first came out, hip hop has always been the "red-headed stepchild" of music - rejected, ignored, scoffed at and not taken seriously by the general masses, but a genre with a lot of talent and potential. And now (specifically within the last 5 - 10 years), hip hop is being neglected and abused at best, and bastardized and prostituted at worst, by the some of the very same people entrusted to "take care of it," no less. So when we see the music we love being debased and it's reputation ruined in the public eye by a few knuckleheads only looking to be famous and make a quick buck (which inevitably turns potential fans away and leads others to turn up their collective nose at all hip hop artists and the fans who love it), then yeah, we care.

Just one girl's opinion.

2007-01-08 06:14:05 · answer #1 · answered by SugrNspyce4 :) 6 · 0 1

it died when it went mainstream...sometime in the 90's...

2007-01-07 23:52:15 · answer #2 · answered by SIMON ADEBISI 3 · 1 0

I sure wish it was.

2007-01-08 00:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by IndigoSapphire 4 · 0 1

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