The Downfall of HipHop began when...

[mr x]

when the fat boys broke up

 

[Rell84shots]

When rappers let record execs tell them that crossing over is what's popular.

 

[1 Hunna %]

&

 

[big bun]

When Pac and Biggie died and second and third tier rappers became the top tier rappers.

 

[African Peasant]

When the first target of rappers became teens, females and clubs.

 

[African Peasant]

When it ceased to be an artform and became a pure business.

 

[mobbinfms]

When Life After Death was released and became a tremendous success. That signaled the end of the regional sound. An emcee as talented as BIG could make an album that attempted to satisfy every demographic work, then everyone tried to copy it and things went to shyt.

 

[Thizzlam]

The downfall of mainstream Hiphop occurred when Kanye West replaced hypnotic break beats with soul samples. But who cares really? Hiphop will live on whether radio fukks with it or not.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

When the first target of rappers became teens, females and clubs.

Those were the primary 'targets' since 1976, when 'rapping' began, in the.........



You dudes stay saying stupid shyt exposing how little you know.

Hip hop is fine.​

 

[observe]

Those were the primary 'targets' since 1976, when 'rapping' began, in the.........



You dudes stay saying stupid shyt exposing how little you know.

Hip hop is fine.​

Yup..started out as teen rebel music

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

THIS IS A "ALL IN YO FEELINGS THREAD" about what you ASSUME to be the downfall of hip hop based on EMOTIONAL REACTIONS to artists y'all PERSONALLY don't like

STOP DAT

NOT ONE RAPPER nor ONE REGION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SO CALLED DOWNFALL OF HIP HOP

THE BUSINESS MODEL SIMPLY CHANGED

AND YOU EITHER CHANGE WITH IT

OR GET CHANGED BY IT

BECAUSE SORRY TO BREAK THE TRUTH TO YOU....

BUT HIP HOP HAS ALWAYS BEEN CORPORATE

IT HASNT BEEN PURE SINCE IT LEFT THE PARKS OF THE BX

THE FIRST RAP RECORDS AND LABEL (SUGAR HILL) was being bankrolled by corporate THUGS like MORRIS LEVY and IRVING AZOFF.....



HIP HOP is still relevant .....unlike Go GO

it's just the HIP HOP u don't like nor accustomed to

I don't either but it is what it is

besides I'M OLD it's not meant for me

 

[bangedher_wholesquad]

Who cares.

By all Yall logic on this site. If u knew you were going to blow. It's best to be labeled as POP since teens and females are the target demo. Hip hop puts u in box and limits you and you don't buy albums anyway. Ain't looking to buy 60% of my first week numbers . Lol.

Leave hip hop for the wannabe trapstars.

 

[L. Deezy]

Hip hop is as strong as ever.

nygga please

 

[Alaafin]

what you mean

shyt changed according to the market. If you don't like the current music, blame the kids and females in the clubs who ate that shyt up
04-06 when the snap & ringtone shyt took off is when it started to change mainstream-wise, imo, since there wasn't as much diversity. There was legit something for everyone, but when the south took over, everywhere else started to stagnate cuz of club culture & marketability. the artists you consider "pure hip-hop" are still out here, they just don't get the shine. fans are to blame

 

[AMcV'88]

at there not being an Eminem option.