Hip Hop is dead! Because white people killed it!?

Question

the white rapper show.

Answer 1

MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER!

WOOT WOOT!!

It's about time somebody told the truth.

Love ya, Watson!

Answer 2

I agree that hip hop may be dead, but I think that it may be in the afterlife. Almost anything you see on tv or the radio these days is all the same. Songs about how much money these rappers have, how many "hos", how gangsta they are. While I'm not going to say that everything underground is good there are some notables. MF DOOM is pretty good. He's got a unique style and comes out with stuff fairly regularly. Del the Funky Homosapien has some interesting stuff. Particularly Deltron 3030. Check out Madlib. Hip Hop is dead and 50 Cent and guys like him are pissing on the grave, but that doesn't mean that something good doesn't come out from time to time.

Answer 3

To quote Nas - "Hip-hop is dead because we as artists no longer have the power. Could you imagine what 50 Cent could be doing, Nas, Jay, Eminem, if we were the Jimmy Iovines. Could you imagine the power we'd have?"

My opinion: If white people "killed hip hop", and the "artists no longer have the power" then why does it rank so high on the charts? "Hip Hop is Dead" sold 355,880 copies in its first week - pretty good for an album from a "dead" genre. Why are hip hop artists often featured on Cribs and wearing expensive jewelry, flaunting their riches? Why is Jimmy Iovine mentioned in so many raps if he is one of the guys who killed hip hop? Why can't I leave my house without hearing it blasting out of somebody's car?
I am tired of people - all people - playing the victim, blaming others, and making statements with little or no factual information besides, "So-and-so said..." so it must be true. It makes much more sense to do something about it.
*Maybe more of the artists who feel so powerless while driving/riding in their expensive cars to red-carpet events should create their own record labels and become "the Man" themselves.

Answer 4

really 100% agree. He suggested it then different rappers began conserving it. Then writers and bloggers began conserving it. Then that finished mentality set in with each and every of the listeners. i have been attempting to say this continuously. I really hate even as theres human beings on iTunes or another position giving one huge call comments and then in all caps scripting this isn't HIP HOP and then they have the nerve to really provide you with a itemizing of rappers you need to understand, a itemizing they prob were given after listening to some different person. I even don't have any problem with the track thats out right this moment. there'll continuously be good hip hop, it truly is as a lot as you in searching it. If a music thats no longer the classic sound (some would call it whack) occurs to change into common, then good for those human beings, even if it will be a one hit ask your self or no longer. i love Nas' track, yet you could tell that the 'Hip Hop is lifeless' element change into an excellent publicity stunt, that he tried to outdo with assistance from naming this next album the N be conscious. It began an rather good buzz, yet holds no reality. Mainstream isn't a nasty element. I dont imagine its precise that once someone human beings savour will change into common (dont all leap, yet say Lil Wayne), some sense compelled to bypass hostile to the majority. Then there are convos all round the web calling one yet another haters and dick riders. i really desire human beings can merely stop complaining and merely have a good time with the coolest it truly is available. This tale is getting previous. Dont' enable others impression you. decide track in accordance for your man or woman own musical style, and enjoy what's available.

Answer 5

Personally, I've never been a fan... but I doubt that it is "dead". Things don't just die (unless they were meant to), they evolve. Hip hop, just like many genres of music before and after it, will influence other forms of music as new artists arrive on the scene having been immersed in it. I don't think this is a black vs. white thing either... There are bad hip hop artists on both sides of the fence...

Answer 6

Hip Hop is dead because of rappers like Jay Z and Eminem or 50 cent or Ja Rule ...just a bunch of fake punks flashing our hard earned money in our face everytime they make a video....yet we buy thier albums... Hip Hop died with 2pac and Biggie... from then on it turned to the "puff daddy era" bunch of cotton candy hits...nothing you can take and apply to your life no message in the music you used to get with pac or bigs.


***added*** to caffinated mom the reason why these so called "rappers" are rich and topping the charts is because of the white audience its a fact that more white kids buy these albums then minorities. its a fad cotton candy hits sell and target the young white kids...

Answer 7

Hip-hop is dead because it never was a legitimate form of music..it was more like the poetry spoken to music and done by Beatniks in the late 50's. It died for the same reason that the dinosaurs went extinct.....it has hit an evolutionary deadend. The artists have become stuck on hating...hating whites....hating cops.... but most of all hating each other.....killing whitey ......killing cops.....and most of all killing each other (look at black on black crime rates if you don't believe me). A Hip-Hop Artist who TRIES to evolve the music on to the next level and do something positive with it is going to get slammed and dissed. People are ready to move beyond that because "the times they are a changin'" .....But of course the hip-hop artists and their followers.... they CAN'T move on....so Hip-Hop will one day be extinct.....Killed by the people who sing (speak) it.

dats my story and I'm stickin' to it

Answer 8

Killed, nah I think like most things it's becoming a norm, or something that is more acceptable, so it's not "new and exciting" anymore. I'm sure when someone gets innovative enough to produce something that sounds better or at least different you'll see a real comeback. Good luck.

Answer 9

no its dead because they just talk about sex money drugs and rims. and im black and im glad hip hop is going down. i give hip hop 2 to 5 more years before it gose all the way down

Answer 10

If it is dead then why are about 9 stations in this city playing it?

Answer 11

its MTV fault
and they're trying to kill rock
my chemical romance
fall out boy
afi
but alot of things are MTV fault
but hip hop sucks anyway
ROCK 4EVER