Is hip hop dead?

I do think hip hop sucks these days. It's changing for the worst for soemone like me who wishes it would get back to the way it was in the 90's. To me there was more orignality with the artists back then. You had artists like Big daddy kane, Biz Markie and Nice & Smooth who gave you the smooth side. Then you got Rakim, Kool G Rap, EPMD, Wu-tang, and M.O.P that gave you the street sh#t. Then you had the undergroung acts that just rapped for the hell of it. Black Moon and the whole Boot Camp Click Which are still my favorites. Das Efx, Channel Live and Gang Starr. It's not like it used to be. Remember Ill and Al Scratch? Madd Skillz. Those artists that even if you didn't hear them on the radio you still saw their videos.

I remember when I could come home and watch rap city and VJ Ralph McDaniels underground video channel for an hr and and go to school the next day and talk about all the videos with my classmates. Now I don't even watch Bet, which I call crappy television. When was the last time a rapper actually free styled? These written freestyle songs are a joke. Hip hop has made a turn for the worst. I can't stand Lil Wayne at all. I pretty much disrespect anyone who considers him a good rapper. I'm not knocking him, he has come a long way and has improved his skills a lot. But now he's to the point where he doesn't even speak english. He raps in this stupid way trying to sound like he's loosing his voice. And I don't undrstand how these dumb a$$ highschool kids like this crap.

The 90's were the best. I like some of the new stuff. I'm not knocking it at all. But for the most part all the artists are talking about the same things. It's all about seling drugs, getting shot or doing the shooting and getting your d!ck sucked. I don't have anything against people for rapping about what they've gone through in life. But why is the majority of artists are all from the hood or were locked up? Can we get a rapper that worked at Wendy's?

A few years ago Bust Rhymes was promoting this dude Papoose. Saying he was what Ny represents. The guy was garbage. Then you had this other looser that Jay-z signed named Uncle Murder. He was a joke. I heard these guys kick their written freestyles on the radio and all they both talked about was sellin drugs and shooting the club up. It's the same thing G-unit and Dipset talk about all day on the radio. Why do 50 cent and the rest of G-unit need to have solo albums. They all talk about the same sh#t. They might as well just do all their albums as the G-unit.

My point is there is no originality anymore. All the artists today are rapping and sounding the same.

Yes hiphop is dead. If hiphop is evolving then it got to stop!! They new hiphop artist are killing it by just singing two lines hook during there whole song and call it a "hit". That was not how hiphop was all about. Hiphop was when artist was about raping about there lifes.

I love all forms of music, although I believe that most of the artist today are more commercial than raw talent. I grew up in a age where Rap-Music was about having fun and rapping about things that mattered, not so much about a* shaking.

yeah,i think there should be a proper place for hitpop in today`s music

The hip hop we knew growing up is dead for right now but I think there are too many pioneers and ogs in the game to let it just die out like that. I think someone is gonna resurrect the old hip hop.

Yeah, hip-hop is dead. More people prefer R&B songs from artists like Beyonce than hip-hop any day. "If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it--uh, oh, OH!!!"

30gS