Is Hip Hop Dead

Is hip-hop dead? It sure sounds like it if you turn on the radio or tune –in to watch a video. It’s amazing to think that the music you hear today is a result of MC’s hard work from the 80’s and 90’s. Gone are meaningful lyrics and thought-provoking verses. They’ve been replaced with incessant chants about money, hoes and clothes.

In its place, we’re presented with examples of arrested development - the portrayal of grown men and women acting and dressing like teenagers. Balding insecure men in their mid 30's making entire songs about their sexual prowess and what shiny toys they have and you don’t.

The art we once called hip hop has been dead for some time now. But because its rotting carcass has been draped in platinum and propped against a Gucci print car, many of us have missed its demise.

All I could picture were the myriad of hip hop conferences where the moguls and figureheads go through the motions and say the things that people want to hear but at the end of the day nothing changes. No new innovative artists are hired to balance out a roster of the pornographic genocide MC's.

In their place, we're presented with yet more examples of arrested development - the portrayal of grown men and women acting and dressing like 15 year olds. Balding insecure men in their mid 30's making entire songs about their sexual prowess and what shiny toys they have and you don’t. The only hate I see is self-hate. The only love I see is self-love
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Is Hip Hop Dead

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