In my eyes yes it is!
You dont get any raw hip hop anymore, every album has got the same artists on it i.e. Jay-Z, Xzibit, 50 Cent, Eminem, Naz etc....
Yes they are all good, thats not my arguement its just that everything is getting the same.

BLING BLING
CARS THAT MATCH WHAT YOU WEAR
5 million women all doing the same dance in there vids all looking the same (sexy though)
Its all about the money

It always was about the money but it was never as in your face, all they do now is boast and big themselves up which is wack....hip hop is about the music, where you live and how you wanna be......the money and the fame is just a good thing that comes with being good at it.

PLEASE CAN WE GO BACK TO BEING RAW....

you cant really blame the artist all the time.. if the fans would buy the raw rap then niggas wouldnt have to come out with commercial shit

Depends On The Person.

Underground is underground for a reason.

LOOK AT THE CORNY ASS VIDEOS OUT NOW.. ITS EITHER A LOVE, CLUB, OR SHOOT EM UP SONG... NIGGAS AINT COMMIN OUT WIHT ANYTHING NEW REALLY THE ILLEST SHIT IVE HEARD OUT RECENTLY IS THAT NEW KANYE WEST VIDEO

Its true wheres all the true hip hop without the bullshit....hip hop was always underground until eminem if you ask me....after he blew up all the rest have thought mmmm we will make a few cheesy songs and get some cash, the likes of puffy make it worse....dont get me wrong there are places for all kinds of rap but all you see and here these days....is party tunes, never real tunes.

Guaranteed, half of the delicately-labeled "backpackers" would hate today's "underground" music if/when it goes "mainstream." Obviously, the mainstream is the status quo and marketing is the name of the game, but people who hate "mainstream" music just because it's popular are fools squared - hell, cubed! There will ALWAYS be a mainstream! Mainstream connotates the entertainment that is in the limelight at any given time. . If there is no limelight, there is no entertainment; so, get over it and stop making these threads!









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there's still sum raw hip hop out there: Talib, Mos Def, Ganstarr, The Roots, Jurassic 5, Dead Prez, etc. but it's not mindless head noddin in your car rap, or bumpin in a a club rap which seems to be what MTV and Radio want to push the most. Prolly cuz it appeals to the largest audience. Marvel is right, after Eminem rappers realised that if they appeal white kids (85% of Rap Buyers are white) they'll make a shitload more cash. I think what people frustrated at is that the mainstream changed n mc's who might have gotten pushed in the past ain't cuz they won't sell as much to kids who barely know the difference between Naz and Justin Timberlake.

So they make dumb pop rap where the lyrics aren't important. All they want is a beat with a hook and a lyrical style that complements the beat. THe rapping is just anutha instrument in the track to the producer, instead of being the focal point.

It's kinda ironic cus Eminem still puts out some decent material, but he also puts out a lot of the new type rap, n 50 is entirely 'don't have to pay attention to the lyrics' type rap. It's a problem cuz a lot of the guys who are chossin the next acts (Puffy, Dre, etc) don't care about the lyrics no more. It's all about how big will the album sell.

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Shit - don't fuckin say shit like that...

Rap sold out at about the time when NWA came out and rap crossed over to the mainstream.

Before eminem, we still had, jigga, nas, 2pac etc

All people who wrote ongs for the mainstream audience as well as the real rap fans.

Aight. I don't see anything wrong with this myself - maybe cuz Hip Hop's still a fairly small business in the UK - well actually its huge but not in the mainstream..

Our rap scene is very raw at the moment... Really raw - no bling bling shit..

It's like we've reverted back to when rap was about breakin and graf except its got the ruffness - stabbings shootings at clubs etc that artists had mid 90s.

UK is the future....

TAH

This thread is more played out then Cash Money...







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STOP MAKING THEM!!!!!!!!!

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damn muthafuckas need to be more creative in their topics.


i swear, i must of replied to a thread similar to this one.. like 5 times this month alone.

ppl have been selling out since mc hammer.

everything commercial is selling out. once you hit plat. you're selling out. in the eyes of most ppl.

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Hip Hop is not selling out at all. Sure they have some of the flashished shit that you have even seen but hey, look past that to the rhymes. There are some rappers out there that suck, Nelly and 50 Cent, yes 50. Listen to their CD's, they sing and not rap like they are made out to be. Eminem on the other hand cannot sing worth shit and raps in his records, meaning it is easy to flow on. Rappers are selling out but there rhymes have yet to be sold out, we need a couple more years for that to take effect.

there is a rapper that doesnt get too much like that and thats david banner, his new vid cadillac on 22s is serious. fashion shit is crap like master p. talib kweli is not in that too much. these are raw rappers. eminem is raw but the media is what makes them look bad. that is why im complainin bout people like britney, or christina tryin to be rap.

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Its a simple solution , rap needs a raw lyricist to come out and just destroy cats, Fuckin rip niggas a new asshole. We need more artists like the wu tang clan and jedi mind tricks