YOUR RIGHT BUT HIP HOP IS ON IT'S LAST LEG WE CAN SAVE IT BY DOING THE MUSIC YOU LOVE AND NOT FALL INTO THE HIPHOP TRAP LIKE SOME OTHERS TRYING TO RAP ABOUT DOPE AND MONEY AND NEVER LIVED THAT LIFE. FROM ECLESIO THE VOICE OF POWER
 

Hip hop is not dead but its not at its strongest point. The real hip hop was back in the day when new york rappers and west coast rapper were the definiton of hip hop and gangsta rap. Biggie was by far the best lyrical rapper and 2pac was the best thug and ghetto rapper. But fresh new talent is developing in the industry with all different styles of hip hop. Rap will never die but it will never be the same as it was in the past.
 

HipHop has been dead since the advent of commercial Gangsta Rap, circa 1991. Rap, Gangsta Rap, New York Rap began taking over and taking the fun out of it, because lets just face it, I am tired of hearing about everybody else's excessive wealth, hoes, jewels, cars, and mansions.  HipHop was an expression, like Jazz, of realities good and bad within the black community, giving social relevance and potential change.  Rap was really the glorification of one long ass black exploitation movie that spilled into real life.  You never had HipHop rappers shooting and killing each other in staged stunts or non camraderie on and off stage until the NWA years.  Rap also took another casulty, called R&B, down with it because the lack of real instrumentation and wanna bee singers singing over jingle bell rap beats has killed that genre.  R.Kelly declares himself an R&B Thug - what is wrong with that?  Crooners were about love and getting some.  A Thug is about straight up fucking, violence, weed, and a host of other bad behaviors.  We are to the point, at least here in Chicago where cats cant even do real hiphop because the wanna be rappers come out and shoot the place up.  <br />But I digress...HipHop is dead because you have two types of HipHoppers - the black conscious whitey did all of this to me types and the ones who rap over samples and try to pick a light hearted argument to spill about that has no social relevance at all.  People are tired of all the same old shit.  Sampling killed the game.  Gangsters killed the game.  Now its up to the talented to keep it rolling. <br />
 

I felt that and agree with you Hip Hop is hurting becuz its trapped in commercialism so main
stream artist have forgotten why it was created and they ignore the essence. Ive always
believed in a happy medium and thats what im about. Lets take it to the top.
 

shit... we not dead so how can hip hop be dead? Man if we alive then hip hop is alive SEEN.
 

..in response to the comment below mine, in the *industry hip-hop probably broke that last leg when they accredited soulja boi to our genre! sadly enough, I think hip-hop lives amongst us who still love it and long for it...I'm working on reviving it sisters and brothers, i need your support!! ........workin on the radio, album, and video so we can get back on top!...notice i say 'we'!!!........-MISS ELLIE CAIN..
 

that was meant for 'the comment on Top'! (lol)

MISS ELLIE CAIN