Is hip-hop still alive?

Apart from the 2 new albums from 50 Cent and Kanye West ... nothing much seems to be happening in hiphop?? Or have I just not been keeping up?

If hip-hop is still alive, what's new? What's hot? Is southern hip-hop still big? What about alternative hip-hop?

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Hip Hop is still alive in my opinion. Because to put it simply there are two types of hip hop. Quality stuff, and crappy stuff. If you like the crappy stuff its alive and living well. If you like the quality stuff it's also alive because there are many quality rappers putting out music, it has just been taking a back seat to the crap rap.

Common's Finding Forever is a hot album. I didn't pick up Talib's new CD yet but it sounds pretty good also. Nas's Hip Hop Is Dead was pretty good. I mean if you look for it, you'll find good music.

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Chamillionaire says- " Hip hop is officially DEAD " %26lt;----------- i hope that answers it!
nothings new hip hop died along with pac in 96

RIP
it didn't die it just went on vacation. Hopefully history repeats itself when it comes to Hip Hop because that classic boom bap era Hip Hop needs to come back . Get that Talib album!
to all honesty...hip hop is dead..the reason why is that what artist today are lacking lyrics and real respect for everything that is hip hop...weather it be breakdancing, turntablism, beat boxing, Graffiti art etc etc....To tell you the truth, the south is whats really killing hip hop..in change of lyrics, they put out nursery rhymes rapping about what car they drive and how much money they got and the girls they get, then take that and put it over loud *** bass filled beats, now im not going to say that the south doesnt have any GOOD rappers out there in my opinion T.I., Ludacris, others included. But to answer the question, its only a matter of opinion. Some people say its dead others think otherwise.Me, myself prefer lyrics and realism over materealistic rhymes
rap is dead and the south is killing it, just like souljah boy that boy done ******* things up, i mean it was dead already but he just finalized it, damn he sucks.
hip hop aint dead it lives underground....and rappers who keep it alive spit a positive image

it did not die with 2 pac,,,we still have nas to me he is way better than pac
i Pretty much Agree With Everything Cool Guy Is Saying

But You Can't single out the South for all the bullshit A wack MC can be from any part of the country. Ain't Mims, Fat Joe, and Ja Rule from New York? Ain't E-40 from the Bay? Ain't I.C.P. from Detroit? It's overzealous to say that the South is 100% responsible for hip-hop's decline. After all, OutKast, Little Brother, Goodie Mob, Geto Boys, etc. are Southern cats that gave us some great music.

I will say this though. All of the Nelly and Lil' Jon wannabes in the South disgrace themselves

So many Southern rappers insist on biting Nelly's and Lil' Jon's crappy music that they give their whole location a bad name. So at the end of the day, it's THEIR fault that everybody thinks of Houston as a candy-paint car, grill-tooth purgatory. It's THEIR fault that everybody thinks of Atlanta as an abyss of fake as* soundalike "pimps" and "thugs" that rhyme worse than Dr. Seuss and dance like little girls with damaged medulla oblongatas. The worse part is that when someone GOOD comes out of H-Town or ATL, they're placed in that wack boxhole
Not dead but maybe slowly dying. I think the old school rappers had a lot more originality than the rappers that are out right now.

Bet is running a special pn Hip-Hop which begins on September 25th. They're supposed to be discussing the state of Hip-Hop. I found out about it here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...
if you think hip hop is dead then you aint listening to the right stuff.

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all of those artists are real hip hop none of this dance hip hop that is hot for a week then no one remembers it.

I think the radio made people think what they were listen to was hip hop but if they really search they can find some really great underground artists