The Downfall of HipHop began when...

[Truth200]

1997 after Pac & BIG died...

 

[Kyree]

Master P and his oversaturation killed the business model.

 

[director_of_bands]

when puff (a non-rapper) started rapping...

 

[Turbulent]

i say the fall out between Rza and Rae leading to Immobilarity

 

[CHILLL]

...in all seriousness, Hip-Hop as we knew it seroconverted with this guy and his loosely based biopic, soundtrack and all the hype. He destroyed Source Magazine.

yup
yup
yupp

 

[Blackout]

The Carter III

Once that album came out rap became lazy and the variety in the mainstream started to dissapear

 

[Monoblock]

when puff (a non-rapper) started rapping...

I been saying this for years and still feel that Puffy is the beginning of the downfall after Big died.

 

[swerve]

When it became cool to be ignorant

don't misunderstand me, with ignorant I don't mean gun and talk about violence. I mean by the fans supporting and defending dumbed down lyrics and beats

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

It's like this..
If the NBA started letting players in who couldn't play or were trash the league would suffer.

That goes with the territory though. Declining sales forced companies to go with artists who had a built in buzz (YouTube views etc.) The artists who are now getting this push.. Soulja boy kreayshawn chief keef bobby shmurda etc. Are unable to strike lightning twice because at the end of the day they aren't too talented.

Let's not pretend like shyt rapper after shyt rapper came out of the south spit a sentence and then the game got rid of them too

 

[intilectual recipricol]

when Pac went to Cuba...

 

[call_me_step_daddy]

for me,when kanye blew up it changed the overall atmosphere of hiphop..he made it cool for the soft n sweet,non threating rappers to come in the game with their weird & effeminate ways

Drake,lil b,young thug,ilovemakonnen, etc are all branches from the sugar maple tree of kanye

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

Artists putting their crews on brought a lot of shyt rappers into the game too

Outlaws d12 junior mafia st lunatics etc

 

[MrPentatonic]

no real starting point. It's the natural rise and fall of all the genres we make and support. Blues, jazz, rock etc.

I wonder what genre our people will make next

 

[FS4LFE]

The 90's is over and never coming back.

 

[$lim]

When the South started taking over

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