Has Hip-Hop Run Its Course?

[1800skypager]

I know I'm rambling. It's 4:30 in the am and I'm sleepless. I'll elaborate on this topic later.

 

[freethewave]

If u cant find any artists u like in this day and age maybe the genre aint for you

 

[1800skypager]

I agree wholeheartedly freethewave. What are these soulless niggas rhyming about that I haven't already heard before. None of these niggas are talking about anything new; they're rapping about material goods, sluts, drugs, weed, hustling, or something stupid. If these cats are all rhyming about the same subjects over and over and the music isn't evolving, whats's it's purpose. Shit is just garbage for your brain. Niggas need to unplug the mics and take up instruments again because we're 14 years into the new millennium and black music has yet to evolve.

 

[Weazel]

I know I'm rambling. It's 4:30 in the am and I'm sleepless. I'll elaborate on this topic later.

4:30?

4-20!

 

[b@squ1@t redux]

as long as 50 is here to save us from our sins we shall all overcome

 

[freethewave]

I agree wholeheartedly freethewave. What are these soulless niggas rhyming about that I haven't already heard before. None of these niggas are talking about anything new; they're rapping about material goods, sluts, drugs, weed, hustling, or something stupid. If these cats are all rhyming about the same subjects over and over and the music isn't evolving, whats's it's purpose. Shit is just garbage for your brain. Niggas need to unplug the mics and take up instruments again because we're 14 years into the new millennium and black music has yet to evolve.

Think this is your problem here.generalizing all of hip hop to all the wackness bein pushed.also for your next point the best hip hop was created with that subject matter

take u ass to datpiff n get to work

 

[1800skypager]

Tell me the non-wack rapper's subject matter if it's something other than what I said before. As for the 2nd point I clearly said that the old guard rapped about the same subject matter as today's generation, but the old guard did it better and it was new at the time.

 

[freethewave]

Lol i duno what to tell ya.what subject matter would u like them to speak on?everyones storys different but most grew up and aspire to be the same way

 

[riddlerap]

as long as 50 is here to save us from our sins we shall all overcome

 

[BelovedAfeni]

nah

see thats what the media wants you to believe

the next level is generational wealth and legacy also global investing

we still have no distribution

no advertising revenue and very little clout in the top positions because cats aent networking and diversifyinsg properly

lets not even talk about publishing.

all the magazines are white owned (no disrespect to our white/euro bredren) or controlled

all the labels are sold/merged etc

there is no hiphop hall of fame or museum or landmark

we have yet to make it investor and concert friendly.....locally

their is no archives or library

most important the respect.

wherer is it?

all we have is a few super rich clogging up the lanes and eating first while people is worried about youtube clicks and twitter/instagram followers

okayplayer

 

[Bodhi]

What are these soulless niggas rhyming about that I haven't already heard before.

 

[25centsandwich]

to an extent....the fact is that we will never hold todays albums in the same breath as the classics of the 80's and 90's.

its the same reason why today's rock records dont hold the same weight as the rock records in the late 50s thru early 70s...hell we dont hold jazz in the same regards as we did in the 40s and 50s even though its progressed from george benson to linda oh.

u cant replicate when rap hit for the first time...when ll cool j's radio dropped no one had heard anything quite like it before...one nigga completely dominatin every track he was on. then paid in full dropped and took that to another level. you cant replicate that

 

[Like Water]

Allow me to clarify my choice... Mainstream hip-hop has run its course, as far as innovation and being the voice of a disenfranchised people. The people in charge of it have ran it into the ground while ignoring balance. There are artists doing their damndest to preserve the genre though.

But the mainstream? Yeah. Most of it can disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't bat an eye.

 

[DOPEdweebz]

Foh.

 

[gemini86]

Hiphop ain't for you. U look at it like it's a fad. Get outta here

 

[_Goldie_]

Entertainment in general has become a consumer based industry. Everything from music to movies is influenced by money and not the art. That's why you'll see a "fast and furious 6" or "haunted house 2" before something new and original , because sequels have already proven to be a profitable investment. Same thing with music, all these record exects care about is sales, the art form is last on the list. Good hiphop is still out there, just dont expect to find it on the radio.

 

[DOPEdweebz]

All these quality albums n mixtapes n ur really gonna say it ran it's course?

You either really old to the point that you're out of touch.

Or

One of these new age elitists that wish hip hop was stuck in 1997.

 

[_Goldie_]

All these quality albums n mixtapes n ur really gonna say it ran it's course?

You either really old to the point that you're out of touch.



Or

One of these new age elitists that wish hip hop was stuck in 1997.

This nigga's name is "skypager" bruh

 

[KINGEC]

You either really old to the point that you're out of touch.

^What I was thinking. It's probably this.

 

[High Revolutionary]

That Big Krit song is dope; good drop.

When I get a chance I'm going to have to check out more of his stuff.