what destroyed hip hop?

[RevPokemon]

I've never understood the attraction to Kanye West. This has been his only good song IMO.

Just over promotion kinda like drake or Lil Wayne.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Jpop > It doesn't matter what is in this side of the inequality, the expression makes no sense anyway (fixed)

Jpop better than hip hop??? For real?
Well, I listen to some Jpop so I may sound like a hypocrite... But that thing is not music, that is... bleh... addictive bleh!
Hell, I listen to many Vocaloid based songs, and I consider most of them near to the quality of ultra commercial Jpop. (note: this is not a compliment)

 

[Guild McCommunist]

This thread has proved to me that GBAtemp has piss poor taste in music.

Except for myself.

 

[DinohScene]

I like this one rap/hip hop track from Ice cube.
GTA SA, Today was a good day, nuff said.

 

[RevPokemon]

This thread has proved to me that GBAtemp has piss poor taste in music.

Except for myself.

That's how every thing on the internet makes me feel

 

[Sicklyboy]

This thread has proved to me that GBAtemp has piss poor taste in music.

Except for myself.

You should feel bad.

That's how every thing on the internet makes me feel

You too.

 

[stomp_442]

I think rap music went bad once gangsta rap hit the scene. I may have listened to a few rap songs back in the 80's but have an acquired hatred for any rap music now. I'm not racist though, I hate country music just the same.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Did someone say K-pop thread?

 

[sarkwalvein]

Did someone say K-pop thread?

For some reason I can only associate Kpop with arcades full of kids playing Pump it up (I don't know if that thing still exists anyway)

EDIT: Of course no Germans will appear in this thread because of Murphy's law, but I will leave this open question anyway... Are there arcades in Germany? I kind of miss them... Well, perhaps it is the boring small city I live in, or the fact I am a fucking hermit, but I haven't seen an arcade place.

 

[XDel]

Here is a theory as to why it has fallen from grace, or rather, how the main stream and those indoctrinated by the main stream represent it. This video features Wise Intelligent from the rap group Poor Righteous Teachers.

Included with this are a few examples as to why Hip-Hop is truly not dead.













Oh and this, watch this, but never mind the end bit that makes Griff look proud and trustful of Obama.

 

[master801]

I think this just turned into a 4-Chan thread...

 

[sarkwalvein]

I think this just turned into a 4-Chan thread...

>implying that is bad

 

[Foxi4]

In a lot of ways Hip Hop and Rap destroyed itself. It used to be a method of protest, a part of a civil rights movement against racism and unequal treatment, it spoke of crime, violence and poverty, the struggle of living in ghettos, a cry for change executed through art. Since the gross majority of the issues it touched upon are now resolved and non-existant, it should've adapted to the circumstances. It didn't, rappers are now multimillionaires singing about struggles that don't exist, they ran out of subjects to sing about. Rap is now about make-believe gangsters, struggles they've never experienced and know nothing about, jerking off and/or dissing eachother for no reason, drugs, grinding crotches against butts and discount love - it's crap. It's the pop of pretend gangsters.

 

[Deleted_171835]

I've never understood the attraction to Kanye West. This has been his only good song IMO.

lol

Just over promotion kinda like drake or Lil Wayne.

LOL

 

[bkifft]

Perhaps we all are just getting old and have passed the cynical threshold?

See http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e07-youre-getting-old and http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e08-ass-burgers.