just wondering what the opinions on here are, seeing as this is one of the more opinionated boards i visit. i've heard a sh*tload of reasons, some i agree with and some i dont (and some people feel it aint dead either). just wanted to hear(compile?) opinions from the soulstrut board. i just read an online interview with prince paul who felt that the sampling laws killed hip hop (which i disagee with but its just one of many opinions).......this thread would like to hear from YOU!
why do YOU think HIP HOP DIED?????
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WHo gives a fuck. If it is dead to you, who is going to bring it back to life?
hate to quote a backpack king on this one but..
"the ones who are most nostalgic are the ones who never even a part of it"
hate to quote a backpack king on this one but..
"the ones who are most nostalgic are the ones who never even a part of it"
Was gonna post the picture of his album.
For me personally i became much less interested when he started happening. i was already hunting down what really mattered to me, so i can't even say that he led to me looking deeper into the music for what i liked most. i think i was 16 or 17 when he put out his CD out.
For me personally i became much less interested when he started happening. i was already hunting down what really mattered to me, so i can't even say that he led to me looking deeper into the music for what i liked most. i think i was 16 or 17 when he put out his CD out.
I don't believe that hip hop is dead. Just that everything in life moves in cycles. Just as hip hop will. I do agree to some point on paul's thoughts about sampling laws. If music is an art form. Sampling laws have then indeed crutched the making of future great hip hop albums. Maybe it's true that nobody could ever make another It Takes a Nation of... even if no sampling laws existed. But with how the laws are now, without a doubt nobody now could afford to produce it and get it released. Unless it was on some "I don't need to get paid, lets just rls it on the net, on some underground, nobody knows who I am" bullshit. To me, I've been around and buying and selling hip hop since the mid 80's. The one thing that I found appealing in the begining, was there were no rules. And sampling laws have crutched a big portion of the creative process of what hip hop was about.
IMO
IMO
here's a small sampling of reasons iv'e come accross:
-sampling laws
-hova retiring
-emergence of southern dominance
-lack of indy labels
-bootlegging/downloading
-REAL gangstas coming into hip hop!
-hip hop was the next "disco"!
-hip hop becoming a "business"
-g-unit!
-overpopulation
-commercialism
-"if you dont know where you came from........"
-"diddy is the anti-christ"
-sampling laws
-hova retiring
-emergence of southern dominance
-lack of indy labels
-bootlegging/downloading
-REAL gangstas coming into hip hop!
-hip hop was the next "disco"!
-hip hop becoming a "business"
-g-unit!
-overpopulation
-commercialism
-"if you dont know where you came from........"
-"diddy is the anti-christ"
When Big Daddy Kane became Father MC.
When Primo paid for weed by letting Fat Joe rhyme on a track.
When Goodfellas hit Nas's VCR.
When Jay-Z first had a reason to laugh "ha ha".
When Biggie rented that speedboat.
When Primo paid for weed by letting Fat Joe rhyme on a track.
When Goodfellas hit Nas's VCR.
When Jay-Z first had a reason to laugh "ha ha".
When Biggie rented that speedboat.
It died for me because I grew out of it, only listened to the stuff I already had.
Doesn't mean its dead, though; Long live TI, and next year's version of TI, and the one after that...
There will always be more teenagers to discover it. Hence, it will always live. You just might not care anymore.
Doesn't mean its dead, though; Long live TI, and next year's version of TI, and the one after that...
There will always be more teenagers to discover it. Hence, it will always live. You just might not care anymore.
This is great.
For me, i identify a lot of this with the time period in which i stopped paying as much attention. Part of it too that was sort of a big blow was that i was the first guy to defended hip hop (in my own high school, get on my level, little guy way) to people who were hating on it. i always tried to explain the brilliance behind it and then to see it become watered down, comical, and about beats that go bip, blip, and boinnng, was just kind of a let down to me.
At the same time there are as many people that love what i hate that i hate what they love, so really its all personal which is what being a fan is. i'm never gonna drop a record or play in a band so all i can comment is on how i connect.
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