The current state of hip hop

[CYRAX]

Rap is going mainstream, meaning if your lyrics are hot, they don't give a fuck, they just want it to sound catchy and good.

Flow has alot to do with it when it comes to making it in the mainstream, you need your voice to sound smooth and professional.

[OniEhtRedrum781]

Just downloaded this song today and its FIRE!

4 Kings by Young Buck feat. TI, Young Jeezy and Pimp C...


Download it now...

[BabyFacedAbortion]

Said it before, I'll say it again..


Atmosphere/Aesop rock.

My life is based around them sometimes.

[Matt the Funk]

Said it before, I'll say it again..


Atmosphere/Aesop rock.

My life is based around them sometimes.

I'd say atmosphere is better and eyedea is better then aesop.........

[mrboom]

i classify mainstream hip hop as pop now. recently ive been listenin to Asheru. he did the theme for Boondocks

[DannyMan]

I'd say atmosphere is better and eyedea is better then aesop.........

well eyedea and aesop have very different styles, but i respect your opinion.
i think aesop is genuisly insane and writes some of the deepest/complex/metaphorical lyrics out there...hands down.

eyedea's freestyles are just too ill though

[MacWQ33]

Look out for the CHef

Only BUilt for Cuban Linx II executive produced by Dr. Dre and RZA

HIP HOp LIVES!!!, barely...

This should be a pretty good record (Dre & RZA, enough said).....and is a great example of 'not quite mainstream' but 'not quite underground' as well....which I think is the best kind.

[suhl]

please define "tool"
do you mean someone that buys all of their shirts and hats and pants and underwear and posters and sunglasses and chains and such?
if thats what you mean then im no tool, i have one twiztid shirt and thats it.

i just mean they were generally douchebags. one beat off at a party after having a beer, in front of everyone, and came into the fire then blamed it on being drunk. then later he got feeling on this girls tits while she was sleeping. the other was a rich kid who decided to buy about 10000 dollars worth of dj equipment then grew bored with it about 3 months later. also it wasnt like these things were isolated incidents or just bad things happening to good peopole both are thier personalities in a nutshell. i guess that isnt a legitimate reason for hating the band, but their music is. both grew bored with icp once they got older, im normally not the person to say this but they are an incredibly immature band and im sure that in a few years you wont like them either. they are gimmick

[BigHyphyD]

I really get down with Murs.

His lyrics are about real shit, but it's not about everday shit that has already been rapped about.

Sometimes I listen to his lyrics, and I will related to his lyrics and I'll be like " Damn I thought I was the only person who thought like that"

But I thin Talib Kweli said it best about the current state of hip-hop.

It's Dead.

Too Late - Talib Kweli and Hi Tek

"Yo, when the bass thump, the place jump
Like it's way crunk, yeah,
Fake punks get they face lumped
Sent to the most high, by the most fit
You gotta do, fuck that almost shit
The fam is close knit
You diggin', know the clock don't stop tickin'
Glocks still spittin', the whole block politickin'
Lik epresidents with they minds dead on arrival
Leaving no evidence of a struggle for survival
Songs relevant to the times like the psalms read in the Bible
Stepping to this leaves thoughts in your head 'it's suicidal'
It's the T to the A-L-I-B the deep rooter
Rolling with my wanna battle cats who chief buddha
And see through the overspecialized, underpressurized
No lie texturized, emcees who got the masses mesmerized
with empty rhetoric, they better quit
Niggas so hollow that they echo like sentiments

Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride? (6x)

Kwa is chillin', Tone is chillin'
What more can I say, we stay building
And make killings
Take children through the wilderness, by the hand
It's a great feeling, show 'em how to be a man
Exactly, pack trees in my khakis
My sound fat like a Neve while you thin like a Mackey
C'mon, shine so bright when I walk by
You got ta squint like the motherfucking sun in your eye
What! Say somethin, you stay frontin
It ain't nothing, let off like I'm big game hunting
Me and Tek stay way blunted
Wave running on beaches with white sand
With a slight tan
Smack the mic stand with my right hand
When I'm excited
Leave you so far in the dust that you forced to bite it
On fire like property lost to riots
Yo, ain't no stopping us when we all united ""

[suhl]

anyone got the new project pat cd?