Off Topic · OT: Is hip-hop ending? (page 4)

hip hop is dead

where were you the day hip hop died?

nas and talib both called this

Posted by BigSm00th:

hip hop is dead

where were you the day hip hop died?

nas and talib both called this

I believe talib called it first back in the reflection album.

Reggaeton is some ignorant noise. Rap has its positive songs. Actually every catagory has its positive songs. Does reggaeton have any positive songs? That stuff is disgusting.

How did NAS call it when he sold out the next day?

Anyone coulda called it.

Posted by EnySpree:

Posted by nyk4ever:

Nas said it. Hip Hop is dead.

Hip-hop has been dead since Big Pun died. I'd say that's around 2000-2001. Something like that.

Nas had a big part in killing it. I hate nas by the way and for your information he wasn't the first to say hip-hop was dead. Please don't make that hypocrite into a prophet. This idiot is not Jimmy Hendrix of rap or the bob marley or whoever.

Fuck nas.

This message has been brought to you by the good folks at eny-hop. If you think you know you have now idea.

Thank you.

(I'm trying to catch up with this post bare with me)

damn, eny, i remember the last time we posted about hip hop you hated nas. i can understand if you don't like his music, especially now but there is definately some hatred. why may i ask? anyway, i do agree with the "bright spots" of rap. i love talib kweli and mos ( though i heard the last album from def wasn't good). lupe fiasco's stuff i heard so far is good by i am still apprehensive with buying the cd. the last cd i bought was nas and i was GREATLY disappointed. i do like kanye west since he is something very different and his beats are good ( you can tell he was influenced by rza, marley and prince paul). someone did say the right thing about consciuos rap do not sell unfortunately. look at the group little brother. they are strictly underground and hardly anyone has heard of them. kweli hasn't had a hit since "get by" four years ago but released two good albums since then. there has to be a shake up. it has always happen since the beginning of hip hop with the breaking music to golden age music to gangsta rap to crunk music. the problem is that i do not see it anytime soon.

note: enyspree, i am with you about the boot camp click. on my way to work, the cipher sounds mix show played two joints from smif and wesson and the fab five. very underrated group indeed. dipset should thank them for the model they laid for them.

no love for Naughty by Nature?

come on, y'all know you throw up those hands everytime "OPP" & "Hip Hop Hooray" comes on the radio.

Posted by Stevo718:

Top 10 Rappers/Groups of all time... my favorites (in no order)

2Pac
Biggie
Rakim
BlackMoon
SlickRick
BrandNubian
SpecialEd
Wu-Tang
TribeCalledQuest
GangStarr

Honorable mentions: NAS (first album), MobbDeep (first album)LL Cool J (early works) BigDaddyKane, PeteRockCLSmooth, Pharcyde, BeastieBoys (first album, actually written by RUNDMC), Black Sheep, Jeru da Damaja

Dishonorable mentions: Jay-Z(ok his early stuff was good), 50 Cents, LLCoolJ (his later stuff)NAS (later stuff)

This is the problem... when hip-hop's popularity reached a certain point that's when entertainment moguls took over the industry and force feed us everything we see and hear, why would the record companies want us to hear about positive rap when negative rap reinforces such things as bling bling... they want the younger generation to grow up thinking nothing matters in this world except bling bling and sex and violence... they want us to SPEND SPEND SPEND...

if anyone has seen the new Rocky Balboa movie, when Rocky confronts the young youth in the bar the young girl responds by saying "you don't know me! you think your better than me?!" this is what the youth has become in a nutshell... thinking the world owes them everything, that hard work is for suckers, everyone wants to be famous yet no one knows how to be original

take Madonna and Brittany Spears, one invented herself the other had the record company invent her, that is why Brittany will never be Madonna, Madonna reinvents herself while Brittany resorts to shaving her head for attention, which was already done btw by Demi Moore.

Hip-Hop today is the new anthem for todays's ignorant, uneducated, immature people that has crossed every single ethnicity and neighborhood in America... simply put it's music for today's trash. And if you thought todays rap sucks wait until reggaeton hits the whole country... lol.

Solid post. I thought I was the only one that liked Blackmoon's album.

I'm listening to alot of Big L right now and I dont understand why he is not top 5 all time. When he died, hip hop died too.

Posted by Cookdcokehop:

I'm listening to alot of Big L right now and I dont understand why he is not top 5 all time. When he died, hip hop died too.

I was just listening to song with him and Big Daddy Kane.