Has most rap got worse over the years?

[One Mic]

^ You consider this hip hop lol?

Dude is soft as fuck, this aint grown man music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTDv_szmL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-NShfefks

Just proves my point how it fell off tbh.

How can we go from this....



....to this

[Hiphopdane]

What exactly seperates B.o.b from being hip hop?

Hip hop is a product of a billion genres such as electro, jazz, reggae and soul. Kraftwerk is considered pioneers ffs.

[Hiphopdane]

KRS-One is another legend and pioneer of the game. On Boogie down production's By all means necessary he raps about stopping the violence and how people should treat each other well. That album is a straight classic and is one of the best albums of all time.

This interview explains it all very well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cHCvYzY28

[Manly Moose]

Michael Jackson spawns audiences more than hip-hop, on his own tbh.

The range in demographics of MJ's fanbase is larger than Hip Hop.

And I don't consider a few pop songs that appeal to teenage girls by the likes of Drake, B.o.B, Kid Cudi, Lil Wayne etc spawning audiences, nor do I consider it "hip hop".

Thats because music with singing has been around a lot longer than Hip Hop, and MJ was a guy that appealed to everyone from the mindless pop demograph to audiophiles and people who like quality music.

Hip hop doesnt appeal to older audiences because of how different it is from what they grew up hearing. Of course the Motown kid with the big voice and huge pop singles is gonna be bigger, hell on the Bad album 10 out 11 songs became singles. As Hiphop ages its audience will become much much wider.

[Chet Starr]

Nope, the fans just got stupid

[BigBoss]

Em came in with relapse and finally some good fuckin shit was made in hip hop...then came recovery and it went downhill for hip hop...now with bme, IF he's on slim shady shit with royce, its gonna go back up,


Then he retires and it goes to complete shit