Quote Originally Posted by MacWQ33
I think it's definitely getting better especially with like everyone dropping this 4th quarter. We got Jay, Snoop, Game, Method Man, Lloyd Banks, Luda all coming out within the last few months...which is definitely a good thing....maybe finally taking the eyes off that shitty southern "music".

Then after all said and done, we got (in my eyes)...the most anticipated return/album of the year coming out in a little over a week......NAS....dropping his tenatively titled album...."Hip Hop Is Dead"...and now with Eminem coming back possibly next year (and DRE's album), hip hop is being 'brought back to life'.

And if you think the 'underground' rules all...you just gotta realize although some underground rappers are good, obviously they can't even be compared with most of these guys who have already made it. Actually I think most of these guys suck anyway, but people just like them, because they haven't 'sold out' or what not. With the exception of a FEW, the rest all suck balls at rapping and/or making songs.
I wholeheartedly disagree, people don't just listen to underground rap because the artists have yet to "sell out". People listen to underground because it is so broad and diverse and so in a way, you choose your own music, as opposed to having to listen the set few mainstream songs that have been determined as "Good Music". Although we are all speaking of a common genre when we say hip-hop or rap, we all have a taste within that genre, and mainstream will usually not have that, and so you go to underground rap and find artists that APPEAL to that taste. The "popular" sub-genres are always changing, and at the moment I believe is the worst most unintelligent sub-genre. I blame this on lil jon and the eastside faggots