Do You Really Think Hip Hop Has Really Gone To Sh*t, Or Are We Just Repeating Our Fathers???

[Idiopathic Joker]

shut the fuck up, punk

Nigga, you still mad?

 

[MrCrookedLetter]

If you can honestly still say that Hip Hop has gone to shit bullshit in 2014, it's obvious that you aren't looking in the right places for music... and if you want more music from the artists who you say made "great/real" hip hop, support them by buying their albums...

If you have time to complain about something, you can use that same time to fix your problem that your complaining about

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

shut the fuck up, punk

Nigga, you still mad?

nah, I just felt like saying shut the fuck up with this tired ass subject.

Then leave the thread, you hat fucker

 

[semi-auto-mato]

i remember my mother yelling at me to turn that garbage off. i remember sitting by the radio listening to the rap attack waiting for that famous world premiere so that i could record whatever song (didnt matter who it was). i remember seeing the west coast jump in and doing their thing. i remember 3 and 4 finger rings, gumby haircuts, two tone lee jeans, bomber jackets. kangols and gazelles. we use to dance. now i look at my kids and think wow look how far we have come. this was started by my generation and now its being passed on to my kids. its then that i think i will never say hip hop is dead. its alive and well. i will never say hip hop is shit. i will always try teach my kids the history as i know it and sit back proudly and watch them put their own stamp on it. soon they will be my age and hopefully it will be passed down to their kids.

not really sure what the problem is with hip hop. old niggas need to support the new niggas. the new niggas need to stop competing with history. they will become a part of it soon enough. when u get my age u look back and laugh. u laugh at all the wild stages ur generation went thru. the clothes u wore, the phrases u used. my generation was never prepared for hip hop to last this long. we were too busy thinking about ourselves and trying to have something all our own. we never thought about 2014 and passing it down to our kids. now that we are here we complain and call them out. we say hip hop fell off. we never had a vision for hip hop. we were just rapping and dancing to have fun and be different. now its a lifestyle...its not a fad like that told us.

if you love hip hop then accept it for what it was yesterday and what it is today and look forward to what it will become tomorrow.

 

[Meta_Conscious]

The mainstream is terrible and the culture is constantly being scapegoated and misrepresented.

There's good shit in abundance.

 

[StillFaggyAF]

everyting a cycle

 

[whatevathehell]

I think I have outgrown the hiphop of today, and some of the stuff from my time too. So, yeah we are just repeating what every generation that grows older says about the current music.

 

[DOPEdweebz]

Hip hop is fine to me. People just take the easy route and instead of searching for new music listening ti sunday nught drops or clubbing they choose to complain about it on forums.

Now you dont have to like the hipsterism, panning towards multiculturalism, fashion and etc but theres still something for everyone imo.

At the end of the day as we get older we just naturally grow out of shit. Hip hop was either just a part of our youth, lifestyle and for others hip hop is their life. It's all about how your life relates to hip hop.

 

[nj2089]

everyting a cycle

 

[Stew]

i remember my mother yelling at me to turn that garbage off. i remember sitting by the radio listening to the rap attack waiting for that famous world premiere so that i could record whatever song (didnt matter who it was). i remember seeing the west coast jump in and doing their thing. i remember 3 and 4 finger rings, gumby haircuts, two tone lee jeans, bomber jackets. kangols and gazelles. we use to dance. now i look at my kids and think wow look how far we have come. this was started by my generation and now its being passed on to my kids. its then that i think i will never say hip hop is dead. its alive and well. i will never say hip hop is shit. i will always try teach my kids the history as i know it and sit back proudly and watch them put their own stamp on it. soon they will be my age and hopefully it will be passed down to their kids.

not really sure what the problem is with hip hop. old niggas need to support the new niggas. the new niggas need to stop competing with history. they will become a part of it soon enough. when u get my age u look back and laugh. u laugh at all the wild stages ur generation went thru. the clothes u wore, the phrases u used. my generation was never prepared for hip hop to last this long. we were too busy thinking about ourselves and trying to have something all our own. we never thought about 2014 and passing it down to our kids. now that we are here we complain and call them out. we say hip hop fell off. we never had a vision for hip hop. we were just rapping and dancing to have fun and be different. now its a lifestyle...its not a fad like that told us.

if you love hip hop then accept it for what it was yesterday and what it is today and look forward to what it will become tomorrow.

Quoted for trillness. Man I remember being at the school dance doing the running man on them hoes LOL then a few years later break dancing. Shit has come a LONG way.

 

[Disciplined InSight]

There was dope and wack Hip Hop music in the 80s and 90s and up to the present it's dope and wack music as well. Pick you choice. The problem is that us as appreciators of the culture let THEM dictate the music and how it should sound and how it should look.

It's understood that everyone has different tastes but in the whole scheme of things, we've escaped the blueprint: all it took to make dope music was a DJ, two turntables/sampler, dusty crates and an emcee who has a knack of putting words together well with confidence and presence to attract others around them.

 

[jono]

It's both honestly.

The older we get the less some of us understand and hold respect for what the younger generation does with the culture. However this is only on a mainstream level, there is still plenty good being created.

Change is inevitable, things have changed a lot over the last 20 years or so and it hasn't been all good. Sometimes the grumpy older cats have reason to complain and other times it's complaining for complaints sake, it's on a case by case basis.

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

I was thinking about this cause I was jamming spice 1 and just remembering how my pops who grew up on 80's hip hop would call the music I listened to crap and didn't care cause it was my music.

 

[Ear2DaSt]

Shit even rappers that was big and dope back in the day can't catch that same fiya.

 

[VYOENDETTA]

There's always going to be some old rapper oppose to the current generation. Old people don't like change.

 

[Wild Self]

Nah, the most lyrical dudes sell the most and have the most dedicated fanbases.

 

[silverfoxx]

Im at the club now. One thing about it is that mainstream is needed for jumping joints. Lyrical underground is good for those Indie concerts though.

 

[AlluringShrew]

Personally, I don't think HIP HOP has gone to shit at all. The mainstream rap is mostly garbage, though. Anyone discussing this topic might wanna read this "Open Letter to Those Complaining About Hip Hop". There are a lot of great points, and there's a section on what can be done to make things better.
http://www.lexzyne.com/2014/01/16/an-open-letter-to-those-complaining-about-hip-hop/

 

[warren98]

Hiphop has many faces now, and yes its lost its essence.

 

[Ghostdenithegawd]

When good artist can't get the proper support they need like they used to and blatantly untalented niggasthrive in the market hip-hop has gone to shit, of course we can find enough good shit to support our ears look at what we do and who we are.

Hip-hop is almost on some hive-mind type shit the way people actually find music you can bet the same niggas listen to the same shit over and over and don't notice artist a-f sound exact the same I never here niggas talking about who's better than who because they just shut up and follow.