My Rant. (the so called Death of Hip Hop)

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okay now i had to laugh scott haha....this whole discussion is the cause why people think hip hop is dead...its the ignorance/selfishness of people or whatever u call it...just accept it or leave it...
different likes and different opinions u cant change that we are 6billion? people on the earth so..
but this goes too much off topic...plus underground artists live the hip hop culture...and those new "mainstream" folks go with the flow of the modern time...
its like Windows 95 vs Windows Vista.... if that makes sense...and in the end it comes down to popularity...its up to each one what he likes to choose...also the media just plays those radio/public friendly tunes..and i dont blame the media, they have a responsibility....so i dont expect them to throw Apathy or Beast 1333 etc. on the TV/radio whatever...
yeah my conclusion is Hip Hop Is Still Alive
and everything what adam quinn said.....evolution is the key....

[AbramIsaac]

Hip Hop isn't dead, nor will it ever be. It doesn't matter what corny pop rappers do, because there will always be an underground, and the current decline of the music industry leads me to believe that the underground will become more and more important later on. So people need to chill.

The only flaw in your initial argument is that when you blame "US" perhaps that's a little too general. It's not "US", exactly. It's "YOU" and women. When I say "YOU" I obviously don't mean you specifically, but rather the type of guys that tolerate (or like, whatever suits you) that type of music either because ladies like it, or because they don't mind the lack of content.

I'm just saying that because I haven't listened to the radio consistently in probably five years, and I find women's taste in music generally so crappy that I don't allow it to be played near me if I can help it. Not a clubber either though, so that's another reason I don't hear shit like that. So I guess I can be counted out of the pack of fans to blame.

Anyway, you've pretty much got it right. It's definitely the people's fault--the people that like unoriginal, shallow music. It has it's place, but it's nowhere near me, personally.