Hip Hop is Dead ?

[7EL7]

New Nas Video




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLTRzHVh8U




Extra


Jay - Z and Nas - Black Repulicans


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3xbv9luRY&mode=related&search=

[LHX]

i got as much out of that track and video as i would watching a re-run of Friends

[7EL7]

need some food huh
i understand


its like a funnel the opposite way though

much more than a song


Jay-Z & NaS - Hip Hop Is Dead (LIVE)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZ0ZicnOnU&mode=related&search=

[Ozmosis]

Its not dead maybe ny hiphop is dead but not hiphop as a whole, nas just going for some attenition to get more sells, but i do like the track and beat...

[LHX]

i revoke my comments

this track takes more of a "if Hip Hop was dead" angle



maybe Barbara Walters should interview him and ask what he meant by that track

[7EL7]

Its not dead maybe ny hiphop is dead but not hiphop as a whole, nas just going for some attenition to get more sells, but i do like the track and beat...


Thats not his point at all lol
check the video and let us know what you see
ps. not everyone is gonna be able to tell whats going on


NY Hip Hop dead ?


LMAO ! ok

[Ozmosis]

"if Hip Hop was dead"


that should be the name of the album and the title track

[LHX]

reminds me a bit of Deck's Uncontrolled Substance


there are people that would love to kill Hip Hop

or at least strangle it until it is obedient

lol

[Sexy Jasper]

Some people care a little bit too much about music.

[7EL7]

its not that
its just that you really do not understand

no diss

[Sexy Jasper]

What makes you say that?

[LHX]

you only have 5 senses

sound is one of them


and when you add the video to it - thats 40% of your body's input



music is serious business

[Sexy Jasper]

I was referring to the lyrics of the song. Hell, I love me some music. But silence is underrated.

[LHX]

But silence is underrated.

that cannot be disputed


good point

[7EL7]

Hip Hop is not music

[Black Man]

Hip Hop is not music

Good point. Hiphop is not music, b.u.t music is an aspect of hiphop. There's an interview Nas did on allhiphop.com talking about hiphop being dead.

If hiphop is not music, what is it, and why?

[Sexy Jasper]

It's a subculture above all.

[LHX]

Hip Hop is dead is a ridiculous statement when you really think about it

thats like saying water isnt wet

[Black Man]

Hip Hop is dead is a ridiculous statement when you really think about it

thats like saying water isnt wet

Is water wet? I don't think the statement is ridiculous. I think it's relative to who's saying and for what purpose. I don't really think hiphop is dead but I can run with that statement. Sh*t just ain't the same, and I'm not trapped in the 80's either. All I'm saying is the principles are no longer their as far as what's being seen and heard on a regular. Where's the creativity, the originality, the skills? Where's the graff at? When's the last time you heard a dj scratch a record on a record? I would say there's some truth in that statement. The music is changing and it's becoming something other than its own self. If it ain't dead, it's dying...

[CloDi White Shinobi]

Sometimes i ask myself "Can hiphop even die?"

[Sexy Jasper]

You can only invent the wheel once...

[CloDi White Shinobi]

Say wha?

[7EL7]

Good point. Hiphop is not music, b.u.t music is an aspect of hiphop. There's an interview Nas did on allhiphop.com talking about hiphop being dead.

If hiphop is not music, what is it, and why?


Hip Hop is a culture

There is such thing as Hip Hop music
but Hip Hop is not music
we can express ourselves musically

[7EL7]

Is water wet? I don't think the statement is ridiculous. I think it's relative to who's saying and for what purpose. I don't really think hiphop is dead but I can run with that statement. Sh*t just ain't the same, and I'm not trapped in the 80's either. All I'm saying is the principles are no longer their as far as what's being seen and heard on a regular. Where's the creativity, the originality, the skills? Where's the graff at? When's the last time you heard a dj scratch a record on a record? I would say there's some truth in that statement. The music is changing and it's becoming something other than its own self. If it ain't dead, it's dying...

all of the things you mentioned goes on everyday and is at a higher stage
we got better
much better
you'd be amazed and might even cry
we often go to the wrong spots, looking for Hip Hop, and when we don't see it, we say that things are not the same anymore
NY is very very secretive
we give the public what we want to give them and let them trip off that baking soda
and they have proven that they do not appreciate the art
so they cut off
lets tell them that Hip Hop is dead so that we can live in peace
some of your favorite rappers might not have really died
they really just wanted to be left alone

[Black Man]

all of the things you mentioned goes on everyday and is at a higher stage
we got better
much better
you'd be amazed and might even cry
we often go to the wrong spots, looking for Hip Hop, and when we don't see it, we say that things are not the same anymore
NY is very very secretive
we give the public what we want to give them and let them trip off that baking soda
and they have proven that they do not appreciate the art
so they cut off
lets tell them that Hip Hop is dead so that we can live in peace
some of your favorite rappers might not have really died
they really just wanted to be left alone

I don't look for hiphop, I'm the medium in which it's expressed.

New York ain't New York anymore...:nonono:

[LHX]

now its New New York

Iran aint Persia anymore either


Hip Hop pops up in weird places now

push it down in New York and it pops up in Russia

[7EL7]

I don't look for hiphop, I'm the medium in which it's expressed.

New York ain't New York anymore...:nonono:



homie, NY is in Italy right now
Its in Germany
Its at Leimert Park and Crenshaw
Japan
Canada

The Brain cells spread to different parts of the body
Its bigger now
has more Space
Mature and married wiff children
the names of these children ?

Techno
Snap
Chop and Screw
Crunk
House
Hyphy (Sp)
Etc....

are these the concentrated form of what we are used to ?
NO !
They ain't grown yet either
It was in its purest concentrated form when it was in the Brain only
wait until this body starts flying
then you'll.............

[7EL7]

NAS Hot 97 Interview wiff Flex



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iId0YqNJaI&mode=related&search=

[maestro wooz]

HkZ0ZicnOnU

nas: "hip hop is dead until my album comes out, cop it on the 19th"

ironic that nas comes out with an attention grabbing headline that doesn't seem to hold any relevance after he signs with jay z? Sort of like the whole retirement thing.

look at his answer as to why hip hop is dead. He gives the standard response every backpacker in the hip hop chamber gives as to why hip hop is dead, personally i expected something a little deeper then that from nas
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he's even dressing like jayz right now


if hip hop is dead, it's 95 and later that killed it

[Gawd]

I have noticed he is dressing like Jay Z as well......I remember when he wore bandannas to cover the side of his face back in the day when pac was popular. NAs is Jay's baby now.

[LHX]

"hopped out my coffin
laughed at Rev
'Play that CD, my ass ain't dead!'"
- Superb

[wise the dumb]

Hip Hop is not music

HIP-HOP'S THE 4(5) ELEMENTS/ RAP IS MUSIC

[7EL7]

its better now than it ever was

its just that people don't have open access to it

[7EL7]

Nas explaining shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfcQcXGhIg&mode=related&search=

[LHX]

wait till they hear what the robots have to say about this

[Fatal Guillotine]

in my opinion the mainstream and the underground have two different understandings about hip-hop and its message...

[Edgar Erebus]

*burp*

[Fatal Guillotine]

only the message nowadays