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like my sig?
the text in the image is distracting, but the actual picture has a good sense of direction and is p cute
do i like that people are heralding the death of hip hop? no
it's still very much alive
When I say hip-hop is dead i really mean like 90% of the new stuff
where do you get a figure like 90% ?
there's plenty of amazing artists just below the surface of the mainstream just waiting for the auto-tune fad to move to the side that are all producing new things
90% seems incredibly arbitrary or perhaps it's referring only to that small group of artists receiving heavy radio play, which isn't close to representative of the entire genre imo
and if it is referring to the latter, then it seems to me that it's pretty ignorant to disregard the large amount of individuals holding it down and continually pioneering the sounds in new directions just waiting to be discovered
Anything big in mainstream, like very little of the new big mainstream stuff is real rap imo.