Is HIP HOP at an all time low?

[nex gin]

Hip hop has been at an all time low for a number of years now. I don't see that as the reason for his cook book though. No successful business man puts all of his eggs in one basket. Rappers should be no different.

 

[YamoleySensei]

When has 2 Chainz released "good" music?

 

[afro thunder]

First you get the flour.

Then pour 2 CUUPS! of water in the bowl. Take 2 SCOOOOPS! Of sugar...so this is what hip hop has come to?

 

[DOPEdweebz]

I dunno why yall so mad , Marvin Gaye is about to make album of the year outchea, anywho...

 

[NothingButTheTruth]

Yes, but if the fans get behind the right people (Pusha, KRIT, Meek, Elzhi etc.) they can turn it around.

 

[Gen. Stasia]

Are we talking Mainstream or just Music? World's Fair and Loaded Lux just dropped dope ass Projects this Week.... It ain't low for me.

 

[BelovedAfeni]

nah we just older

 

[Gen. Stasia]

I honestly don't get how ppl complain about Music in 2013......

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

aint nothing wrong with it, if u dont like wat u hearin find something else to listen to

 

[haute]

1. no

2. 2chainz is the rapper that you should hate but you don't because he makes you laugh

 

[Trollio]

yep ny hip hop is on the down low

 

[A1000MILES]

Oh...A bitter bunch convention...Y'all have fun...

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

nope, that was around 2006-2009.

 

[usmarin3]

I wish some of you crybaby niggas would shut the fuck up, open up your ears to what's happening right now. That's including Kendrick, TDE, J Cole, even Drake (when he raps), Krit, Chance the rapper,etc.

Look where hiphop was 5-10 years ago, Franchise Boyz, D4L, Lil Jon,etc.

A verse like Kendrick's verse on Control wouldn't even have made a ripple 10 years ago.

 

[P. Town]

No, and what does somebody putting a cook book out with they album got to do with Hip-Hop being at a all time low? Fool that's bread if he work it right.

 

[5 Grand]

I can remember different stages of Hip Hop when people considered it at an "all time low". You guys may not remember but around 92/93 people, myself included, were saying Hip Hop was at an all time low. KRS, Rakim, Public Enemy, Big Daddy kane, etc. Pretty much all of the hot Golden Era MCs from 87-91 had pretty much fallen off. Somehow the West took over with a G-Funk sound that sounded unfamiliar to our ears. We didn't really give the guys on the West props for their skills on the mic (guys like Coolio or Warren G).

I mean, if you look at who was poppin in that era, there were alot of groups that had hot singles (Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Naughty By Nature, Main Source) but as a whole, the entire East Coast was lacking a movement. But things changed in late 93 when Midnight Marauders and Enter the Wu 36 Chambers were released on the same day.

Then, around 97/98 people said Hip Hop was at an all time low because of the big corporations that were pushing entire labels like Bad Boy and No limit and many Hip Hoppers said that it wasn't real Hip Hop and they were just rapping about Bentleys and had half naked girls in the videos but the rappers didn't have any skills.

So yeah, every few years or so it looks like Hip Hop is at an "all time low" but inevitably somebody reaches up their sleeve and comes with something new and different.

 

[MrCrookedLetter]

Some of yall are never happy smh, hip hop is in a great place right now, niggas just love to complain and wine about music they don't like, but act like they just can't change it to something they like

 

[playmaker88]

I was about to be mad i thought this was about I-Hop

 

[32DaysOfInfiniti]

Its not at an all time low, but the bar certainly isnt as high as it once was... Why else would niggas be calling Drake and Kendrick any type of great or would Future be one of the top artist on the hip hop charts

 

[StoneColdMikey]

Old bitter niggas