Is hip-hop still hip hop?

[Neuromancer]

Do you consider the culture we have today in the black community hip-hop?

If a culture changes after a generation or so can it still be called the same as it was initially?

Do you hip-hop culture is dead?


Thiskus.

 

[Brolic Scholar]

The commercialized bs you see charting isn’t hip hop, it’s rap. Hip hop still lives, but it’s following the path of jazz, rock and RnB: sold and profited on by people that didn’t create it, yet done best in non-mainstream settings by those that gave it birth.

 

[MikeyC]

hip hop is still hip hop when hip hop still hip hops

 

[Taadow]

Nope...because people don't rock it out, Baby Bubba, to the boogety bang bang -
the rhythm of the boogety beat.

 

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[OneDeep]

As long as we hold & shape the foundation Hip Hop will always be Black culture

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

No. Hip Hop lost what made it special and that was variety. Now everyone sounds the same and raps about the same thing.

 

[Mowgli]

Some people just rap. Others are the culture. Once cats say they hate rap, they not trying, calling hiphop unc shyt, they not with that hiphop shyt they telling you what they are. Opportunists.

 

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