I can appreciate almost any music genre, but I find myself reluctantly agreeing with everything in this article by J Ro recently posted on The Seminal web site. Hip hop isn’t dying, it just sucks.
Badly.
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10 Comments
It does not suck, YOU just dont know how to do it well
the soundrack for a pop-collar chad to drop roofies into the drinks of some unsuspecting suburban bubblehead has become indistinguishable from that of a 16 year old mallrat. what sells & what’s good have been 2 different things for a long time. pop fluff will never resonate with the streets, & in the end hip hop that doesn’t suck will go back underground (property of those in the know). it happened to hair-metal, it’ll happen to hip hop. the responisbility lies with us….
Thanks for the link. Glad you agree.
As for Sly, things may go back underground, but I don’t think that underground is in good shape right now. The roots need to be stronger than the branches for things to be all right in the hip hop world.
WTF?!!!
Hip Hop is a whole culture, not just a musical genre. The fact it has succeeded and gone mainstream definitely turned the more visible parts of it into mainstream consumer production, but you can still find the good stuff where it originally came from - the neighborhood artists.
Still, I think you’re going too far with this declaration. Hip Hop is Hip hope for many, don’t kill it.
VirtualFlavius
Hip HOP DON’T SUCK IT’S THA BESTED MUSIC IN THA LAND BUT U CAN’T LIE NOW A DAYS HIP HOP IZ BOUT HOES,BLING,MONEY,CLOTHES= THE GLAMOROUS LIFE.I THINK HIP HOP GOT 2 DEM.NAS SAID IN HIS SONG HH IS DEAD:I COULD OF WENT LEFT SO LIKE MY GRL FOXY THA KID WENT DEF!!!!!
If you think hip hop sucks your most likely listening to mainstream hip hop and not the REAL hip hop..
Hip hop has always been good, people just don’t what to look for or who to look for because good hip hop is underground…none of this crap that is commercialized. Educate yourself
Hip-hop sux, in my opinon, i do like eminem, public enemy, and beasty boys, but that about it, metal is much better, hip pop is just a conformist type of music, metal breakes boundries, and doesnt conform to anything
My biggest problem with current Hip-Hop (that I have heard, local / underground or comercial) is that there is NO musical content. Three notes on a stock synth preset do not constitute music. I believe the ROOTS of hip-hop were so good due to all of the sampling of complex jazz and funk riffs. It seemed like by combining what seemed to be the little pieces of greatness in those old songs created something new and better. However, nowadays even local so-called underground hip-hop is using a lot of midi and software synths with default synthesizer presets. That said, even the older stuff had a message behind the lyrics. Not just a catchy jingle like a McDonalds comercial. I will say that I feel since hip-hop has made it into the mainstream culture it has one direction to go (back underground) but that doesn’t mean it will get better. It just means it will go somewhat off the comercial radar so to speak.
Just my two cents.
I think the main reason people don’t like hip hop is because it all sounds so similar, there is little real music and the vocals are usually just annoying and dominating. It’s like listening to somebody who just won’t shut up. Not to mention the fact that most hip hop you hear is negative and degrades women.
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