Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.
Hip-hop is all over the planet.
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.
But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.
Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.