What do people think Hip Hop is Dead really means?

Question

I support Nas in his campaign of hip hop is dead. People don't take the time to think no more. This is proven with peoples response to the hip hop is dead phrase. You got Luda with one of the most pitiful and stupid shirts that I have ever seen sayin that " hip hop aint dead, it lives in the south" That alone proves why hip hop is dead. Now the south thinks that they are hip hop culture all by themselves. They think so much of themselves to put a t shirt out like that. I aint sayin don't be proud of the success, but at the same time don't spit in the face of all the people who broke they backs for hip hop culture by havin a shirt that says that. You got Jeezy gettin into beef with one of the greatest lyricists of all time in Nas. Talkin bout nas don't have the right to say hip hp is dead. Hell!,What gives Jeezy or anybosy the right to say its not. Just cuz they got platinum albums and they city or region is hot. That don't mean that hip hop is alive.

Just because food is hot don't mean that the food is good. Note, Note. People sayin that New York hip hop is dead. Thta is just disrespect to the birth place. Yes I said it. Now its like New York rappers are every one's worst enemy. Half of them don't even care about what other regions are doing. I know for a fact the the south could care less about what New York is doing and that is spitting in they face again. Before the south came in, complainin about how no one was payin attention to them and ****, New York and L.A was holdin it down. Now South comes in and they think that they have the right to talk **** to any New York rapper they wnat to just cuz they have the number one single in the country. That makes no sense to me. This is why hop is dead. All the beef goin on in New York is holdin them down too. It aint all the south's fault, even though it is the majority. New York needs to wake up and get togther to take over again. They could do it if they would work together.

Answer 1

what i think when nas says hip-hop is dead is because nowadays the rappers usually talk about b****es, candy paint, etc. and the new rappers like lil wayne who is overrated like hell are fake and they talk about the "hood" even though theyre not...... it pisses me off sometimes that the rappers nowaydays are so overrated and they mainly talk about cars and hoes......smh imo thas what nas means and i think he is right

Answer 2

Hip-Hop is Dead (mainstream) of course always alive in the underground. Listen to Monie love & Young Jeezy interview where he question Nas' Street Cred?? here
http://smartenupnas.com/?p=33

"Can't Forget About Us" by Nas is it exactly to me. Everyone coming in NOW thinks you have to slang Coke, Go to jail, and shoot sH-It up. When this Sh-It started it was in parks and porches. I know times have changed, but if you can spit that's it.

Now, I used to listen to Ice-T, CMW, N.W.A. along with D-Nice, Krs-one. Everybody had equal play, but now I'm forced to listen to same artist different name. There is no equilibrium. It's not about just HOT.
The best songs are never on radio hits. Everybody is trying so hard to make themselves RICH first then the hardest rapper out second. Get your money, man get it then remember that you talking to thousands to millions and be a rapper (represent Hip-Hop more than take away from it)

People don't even try to be artists no more. That takes away from the real artists in the game. The Commons and Talib Kweli and Mos def's (NOT JUST THEM there is SO MANY).

I'm Happy only T.I. and Gnarls Barkley went platinum in 2006.
Lil Wayne to but he came out at the end of 2005. Maybe with numbers going down rappers will come correct.
Everyone can still rap, but I just want more out of Young Jeezy type of rapper and less gimmicks. You can say you got money, just not a whole song dedicated to it. You can talk about that you sold drugs because of how poor you were. But every hook of every song.

We need to stop makin one way the only way to have HOT records.

Answer 3

hip hop IS dead. it became so materialized. there is no meaning to the lyrics anymore these days. i miss hip hop that SPOKE to the people. and i agree with the answer above me. many rappers today are completely over-rated.

Answer 4

its not dead, people are tired of Nas and his or her stuff