Was hip-hop ever truly dead?

[Neuromancer]

I think about this sometimes, in the wee hours of the morning. Was there ever a point when hip-hop died was revived? I feel like around the time when all those southern rap groups made those terrible songs and minstrel like dances. Can anyone think of a time when Hip-hop was dead?

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Never

 

[Real]

Nope...gimmick to sale records

 

[grandpianos]

been dead

that music you hear are the just the sounds coming from its rotting bubbling corpse

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Nope.

Just flooded with bullshyt and reprogrammed to the masses as rap music..

 

[\\//JohnnyCA$H\\//]

Its pretty fukking dead right now, as far as what's being pushed, you will always be able to find dope hip hop but the radio and media ain't playing a part in it they trying to shove trash like young thug lil Uzi savage and yatchy down your throat, claiming that's what is hot, it may be hot to some people but it damn sure ain't hip hop, for every 20 trash rappers that drop trash projects there's a below the heavens by an unknown and sometimes we find that needle in the haystack

 

[Tflasha]

nah man its alive and well, we got guys like young thug, uzi boozy, THE GAME, and many more great artists

 

[IllmaticDelta]

When Nas said HipHiop was dead he meant that its strayed from lyricism mainstream wise....of course it was never dead in the literal sense because macro musical genres never die.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Hip Hop aint really Hip Hop anymore tbh

I like tons of new shyt from this era, but its not fair to the older classics and the new ones, to compare them

Hip Hop is on some post/prog/fusion/industrial/alt/punk shyt right now. Rock hasnt been Rock since the 70s and sub-genres took over. Difference is, those genres were acknowledged by the media and the industry so that distinctions can be made and everyone can get their due credit

That way Drake, Jeremih, Young Thug, Kendrick and Em (random example) aren't being nominated for the same awards and put on the same shytty Top Whatever lists

 

[Maximus Rex]

hip-hop has never died yall just got old

 

[CrimsonTider]

When Nas said HipHiop was dead he meant that its strayed from lyricism mainstream wise....of course it was never dead in the literal sense because macro musical genres never die.

Lyricism has never been in the forefront of the mainstream

Nas did that to sell records

 

[Ronnie Lott]

been dead

that music you hear are the just the sounds coming from its rotting bubbling corpse

What are you takin about

 

[B-Mint94]

Nope. It's just gotten so over saturated that it's harder to find the good stuff. The mid 2000's for example is where people said that hip hop died, but if you look under all of that snap dance stuff that was topping the chars there where a lot of dope artist dropping high quality material.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Lyricism has never been in the forefront of the mainstream

90's mainstream HipHop was very lyrical and then was stalled with the Shiny Suit Era but picked back up with the higher end underground/semi mainstream acts like Talib, Mos Def, Monch etc by the late 90's and early 2000s..HipHops lyricism by the mid 2000's because of the popularity of Crunk turned into almost nothing more than Chants and Call & Response which is/was part of the reason why Nas said HipHop was dead

Nas did that to sell records

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Lyricism has never been in the forefront of the mainstream

Nas did that to sell records

Of course a dumb nikka like you would say this:nawnikka: