When Did You Realize Hip Hop Was Dead?

[ridedolo]

when the beastie boys dropped

 

[frush11]

When DJ's started playing the same 20 songs in the clubs.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

How the fukk is hip hop dead

 

[Ronnie Lott]

The rise of Drake directly correlated with me checking out of hip hop.

I will say, though, as an awkward white dude who cant dance...I have to thank Drake for making the dance floor accessible to me

when yall let a police officer still rap

honestly, when puffy became a rapper

97' was a different time and you saw hip hop make a much more commercial leap and you had guys like puffy and master p (he'd been rappin' but his 97'/98' was his breakout year) rappin' when they really can't

i mean, if you accept it for what it is and nothin' more than just some funny shyt talkin' shyt, then it is what it is. nothin' more. but actually mcin'? naw, they ain't them. they just some businessmen who saw an opportunity to cash in on some shyt that they knew they didn't have the talent for but a spotlight and lane for

sure, puff was funny when talkin' shyt on records from time to time and for the adlibs and i can even tolerate that "no way out" album because of the beats/production and the guests on it ("victory" is a classic, not even puff's no flow delivery could fukk that up) but it was just the first time

and yeah, eazy e had ghostwriters like puffy but the difference is eazy's persona worked more in his favor as a rapper in my opinion than it did for puffy as a rapper to me for a whole album. i could tolerate puffy's rappin' when it was like a guest feature or for a little while but for a whole album was cringe worthy

When R&B singers stopped getting Jadakiss for features.

As in the hip-hop I knew and loved since youth, when garbage ass No Limit blew up.

Are yall nikkaz crazy or somethin?

 

[SirBiatch]

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.

how in the hell is this wack?

 

[I love Latina women]

Are yall nikkaz crazy or somethin?

just my opinion

 

[Big Mel]

how in the hell is this wack?

It isn't.

 

[SirBiatch]

It isn't.

yet X was the sign of hip hop being dead?

 

[Monoblock]

I wouldnt really say its dead but I think the reason its at such a low point is b/c R&B isn't marketed anymore and pretty much dead. Too many rappers trying to sing now. When hip hop started meshing with R&B pretty much dissloving it altogether is when shyt started going off a cliff IMO.

 

[Jean Jacket]

A milli. Macklemore. OG Maco. LilB. Young Thug. Soulja Boy. Rap City going off the air. Dip Set/Jim Jones. Tony Stark's son. White rappers sayin nikka. BET sold to Viacom. Drake. 2chainz. Wiz Khalifa.

 

[Thief's Theme]

Hip-hop was mostly dead until Ferguson

now it's back, because it has something to say

and the ones talking about it: Nas, Game, Scarface, LOX, Kendrick, etc. are bringing it back

listen up

 

[Big Mel]

yet X was the sign of hip hop being dead?

Amongst the other things, yes. You've admitted you got into rap in 1996. I got into rap in 1983. We're very different.

 

[y que]

when lil wayne started kissing birdman

 

[Wiles]

how in the hell is this wack?

That shyt was heat

COLI BE TRIPPING

 

[Wiles]

Hip-hop was mostly dead until Ferguson

now it's back, because it has something to say

and the ones talking about it: Nas, Game, Scarface, LOX, Kendrick, etc. are bringing it back

listen up

COLI WANNA QUIT THO...