Number 1 anticipated CD for me…ain’t heard a cd as good as The Cool since it’s dropped.

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Charles Hamilton incredibly interesting and thought provoking? Word?
You know I tried to give the little nigga a chance but I don’t see it.
It’s like if you dress weird and come off as a lame nigga, you are worshipped in underground hip-hop.

there is still plenty of good rap music but it wont get played on MTV or BET and xxl never has anything about it people see the lame shit on tv and think hip hop is dead like… when has the rap on tv ever been good?

I think good rap will make a comeback in 09. aftermath is going hard and east coast might wake up this year

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Well Hip-Hop’s been in The End stage 4 about a couple years now, and Lupe is Talent but the dude is gay as fuck, why back a group called Japanese Cartoon? WTF is the world comin to? so he just needs to help Hip-Hop and not watch it die, AFTERMATH!!!!

I hate to agree with Lupe because he has proven to be a bit of a Douche bag at times but he is a great writer with a super creative mind. Come to think of it most of these guys are pricks. Anyway as I was saying I agree hiphop is changing and I can’t wait to see what developes. The whole percival fats thing is lame but the music sounds good. It is a Gnarls Barkley/meets the brit punk like excursion.

Sorry kids but I agree with Lupe! From 99 to now Hip Hop has slowly turned into commercial Pop garbage. Yes there’s still some good Hip Hop out there and a VERY small amount at that, but Hip from 2005 to especially today has been at it’s ALL TIME WORST. Autotune bullshit. Corny songs with corny little dances to go with it dominating radio and television. Wackass T pain on every song, and rappers being left for dead and looked at as “old” once they reach 35 and over! Cmon people! All these quote “old” rappers are still lightyears ahead of anybody today in lyricism. (Weezy included), and unlike other genres of music we turn our backs on our pioneers instead of keeping them relevent. We need more old school/new school collabos, we need more substance and lyrical talent back in our culture, and most of all radio DJ’s need to stop being robots, and say FUCK YOU to these corporations who have bought and sold out our culture in the first place! We need more Nas, Ghostface, West Coast music, local emcees trying to make it etc, on our radio….And one last thing, buy a REAL Hip Hop album when it comes out instead of downloading. A majority of us cry when good albums don’t sell as well as they should, yet we keep sittin on our ass. Wake up people, take your culture back! There’s billions of us and only hundreds of them!!!!!!!

Sheesh–such unprecendented lameness!! For real, this is some extra crispy bullshit. Isn’t he two years old with this line? And why is he trying to drop a 3-disc album if the shit’s dead?

“No Lupe.”

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Everything I wrote, I deleted because that’s basically what I wanted to say. But I’m going to add stuff…

Someone said, I’m not sure who, maybe it was Talib Kweli, but anything that’s played on the radio, “Hip Hop” wise, it’s not good. They don’t play good music on the radio. Which is completely true. They only played ‘Superstar’ on the radio because it was more radio-savy? They played ‘Stan’ on the radio, and two parts were cut out, not even bad parts. I’ve never heard good rap music played. Although I personally like everything, they play Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Akon, who all three are on EVERY song.

The Cool is one of the best CDs. You would never hear a song played on the radio, clearly about HIV or anything else serious, because no one wants to talk about that. The Cool has a great concept, and story telling is something no one does throughout the CD, leading into one another.

So the CD is called Everywhere now? I like LupEND better. Can’t wait regardless

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Man you so right when you talk about hip hop vets not being supported like people support old school rock and pop bands. When aerosmith tours they sell out huge venues just playing songs they made 20 years ago! But when KRS One or Public Enemy does a show its at the house of blues. There are radio stations that play old school rock and pop all day! I haven’t heard of a old school rap station just 4 80s and 90’s rap! Thats the reason them old rock groups are still relavent today and not old school rap acts.

Will everybody just quit bitchin,it won’t change shit,most mainstream sucks and all the best rappers are droppin garbage,complaining won’t change shit,if lupe and nas and all these ppl are so hurt and upset they should band together,go get the old greats and produce new material,otherwise quit cryin,or quit rappin,thats why i fuck with mixtapes only mostly,i tell you what go listen to your old ass black sheep and tribe albums a few more hundred times if you that tired of new shit!

^^^^^Damn homie u went in on it. U gotta point if u don’t like it don’t listen. But the diff. between Tribe, Blacksheep and those artist is they made timeless classics, can do a tour and still get love and ppl respect what they bring to hiphop. 10 years from now I can see only handful of these dudes that spittin now gettin that same respect. UGK(rip Pimp C),Outkast,Tribe,alkoholiks,onyx all of em still get respect.

Hip hop is fucked up because these artist just want to get paid. You should do it for the love first and foremost. We all have to eat, but it’s fucked up when a true art form gets sabotaged for a dollar. These new ringtone artist don’t care about art, they just wanna get paid. THAT’S A MAJOR REASON WHY HIP HOP IS GOING DOWN THE TOILET. You can point to about five or six differnet reasons why hip hop is dying a slow agonizing death. I wish hip hop were like some NFL players. I’m from B-more and I can tell you that Ray Lewis and those guys play for pride and not just a damn check. They play for a legacy. These new cats in hip hop are pure trash and the people who put them on are no better. Everything you hear is sounding the same. I never thought I would be disgusted with hip hop. Everybody out here who has real talent have to get it to the forefront or we’ll continue to hear the same old bullshit for years to come. BRING HIP HOP BACK PEOPLE.

To Amar. You asked how many rappers still made good music at 35 and over. Here’s the list!
1) Nas
2) Krs-One-dropped 3 highly underrated albums this decade. (Sneak Attack, Kristyles, Hip Hop Lives)
3) Busta Rhumes
4) Ghostface
5) E-40
6) Too $hort
7) LL Cool J
8) Snoop Dogg
9) Method Man
10)Redman
That was easy! I could keep going but I’ll stop here!

Amar…I see your points and I know we always had all those things to an extent throughout Hip Hop’s history but all those problems you and Anti-Mainstream mentioned are worse now then ever before!