When Did You Realize Hip Hop Was Dead?

[Nigerianwonder]

When one of the most popular rappers out is a gay cross dresser who goes unchecked...

 

[Bankroll]

Hip Hop never died out. It has drastically changed that is for sure, but it still is "alive". Especially nowadays when we got guys like J.Cole, Earl Sweatshirt, Pro Era, and countless others doing their thing. Everything has a ying to the yang; in the case of lyrical "hip hop", the yang would be all those trap artists, e.g. Migos, Fetty Wap, Chief Keef & most of the Drill movement, and Gucci Mane.

 

[SirBiatch]

when Game and Young Jeezy came out

 

[Originalman]

When wake flocka said he didn't care his lyrics suck and that he wasn't a rapper.

When folks overseas started making trap music.

Mainstream rap is dead. But underground rap is alive and kicking.

 

[Mamimi]

its not dead. sure, maybe things aren't the way they used to be and the game has certainly changed, but its a constantly evolving art form. things are supposed to change. hip hop will never die.

 

[H. Selassie]

When Lil Wayne was being considered as a reasonable candidate for being GOAT. Regardless of whether that claim makes sense or not (I can't judge that), I knew that as any top rapper he would be would be copied by far less talented "mcs" : problem is, his style is easier to trick people into believing it's "hot", as long as you have a catchy beat.

Was gonna say this. In high school and early college, when people started telling me with a straight face that Wayne was better than Nas, Jay, Eminem, Lupe, etc. I threw my hands up. No hope.

Till this day I NEVER have Hip-Hop discussions with people away from the Internet unless I can tell they REALLY know their shyt. I legit used to get wound up at the dumb shyt I heard people say and now I just refuse to even let myself get that deep into it.

 

[Techniec]

1997

Shiny suit era

Jay Z emergence

South emergence

 

[SirBiatch]

It became crystal clear to me sometime in 1998.

Ha? or Make Em Say Ugh?

 

[NvrCMyNut]

When having ghost writers were ok

This was it for me, there had obviously been a huge gradual decline in the quality of music & disintegration of perimeters since 96, but this was the final nail in the coffin imo.

 

[Big Mel]

Ha? or Make Em Say Ugh?

Honestly. DMX.

 

[N*ggerFa*ot]

When hopsin told me.

 

[SirBiatch]

Honestly. DMX.

why?

 

[Loose]

Honestly. DMX.

Man catch this neg

 

[bogey_j]

its not dead. sure, maybe things aren't the way they used to be and the game has certainly changed, but its a constantly evolving art form. things are supposed to change. hip hop will never die.

calling hip hop (in 2015) an "art form" at this point is laughable

the artistry of hip hop only exists in the past

 

[Big Mel]

why?

Because a maniacal stickup kid rapping over keyboard beats became really popular. On the heels of the nas sellout/jiggy era/coastal wars succession of debacles that DMX somehow "saved" or restored something was so offensive to me.

1998 was the year those with sense God gave geese threw our hands in the air and quit.