"Hip Hop Is Not Hip Hop Anymore" -Erick Sermon
- Thread starter Rollie Forbes
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Everybody with sense knows this
hip hop is doing just fine in the underground market, tired of these old nikkas complaining.
Yo I heard this new cat Nas is dropping illmatic soon
RaspberryFitted
Boyz In Motion Member
Just like music 
It’s Hispanic music anyway 
BK The Great
Veteran
Hip Hop culture is more of the beat boxing, graffiti, battling, breakdancing MC aspect. This new stuff is Definitely not Hip Hop. Majority of the music has no message behind it either.
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
We have been hearing that shyt since damn near '91, and guess what? No one except hip-hop snobs keeps making that argument. No one cares about the graffiti, b-boying, and beatboxing elements cause if they did, they would be celebrated just as much as the music itself. DJ'ing itself has been reduced to nikkas just pushing a spacebar and having a Spotify account. The culture (and the argument about it) is dead.
It's dead no matter how you spin it.
If your argument is that it's thriving deep down in the depths of the underground.....thanks for proving his point......it's dead.
From my understanding, hip-hop culture was originally meant to uplift and inspire the people and to give a voice to the voiceless.
Fast forward......It's doing none of that.
In fact , rap music (the main component of hip-hop) has turned into literal mental and spiritual poison to the masses.
It uplifts and inspires no one.
If your argument is that it's thriving deep down in the depths of the underground.....thanks for proving his point......it's dead.
From my understanding, hip-hop culture was originally meant to uplift and inspire the people and to give a voice to the voiceless.
Fast forward......It's doing none of that.
In fact , rap music (the main component of hip-hop) has turned into literal mental and spiritual poison to the masses.
It uplifts and inspires no one.
The music is "celebrated" more because it's easier to co-opt and profit from, very little of which we, the people have any control over.
The rap game is NOT "The Culture"...it's a racket and has most certainly been weaponized against us by the you know who's. Plenty of people care about those other elements, some of the greatest rappers in the wolrd don't make music. Some of the greatest MC's, orators, storytellers in the world aren't even rappers but are still very hip hop, the shyt goes much further than just the one thing about it we can't fully participate in which is the higher ups in the music industry.