Is Hip Hop Dead? - White Hot Top 5

this video is talking about "Pop-Hop" not Real Hip-hop!!! real Hip-Hop is not what you hear on the RADIO you need to dig for them... It's a culture of thinkers "with a creative form of expression, words that give life to new ideas like a seed in it's process of growth transforming it self free of restriction... but Im kind of glad these fake rapper exist because they have given me fuel to express my self in many ways and hopefully my voice is captivating enough that people will listen to make some sense of these words to help them recognize impostors of HIP-HOP..."

Thanks for the Saul Williams video, he always makes me a little less cynical. Also, listening to talib without mos makes me physically ill. Just go to his show and crank some blackstar and wonder what happened.

OMG!! Red hot garbage!

Hip Hop is a victim of it's own success, it has spread into just about every other form of popular music out there. It can't even be defined anymore, everyone from Ghostface Killah to Sean Kingston could be considered Hip Hop. What's dead is Rock, now that is DEAD.

considering the fact that all the best hip hop artists are dead, i would say yes, hip hop is dead. even going to a hip hop concert, everyone is still playing tunes from the 90s. hip hop is dead. it's all about jazz, funk, and eclectic.

Has any musical style ever died?

Not even the much-maligned Disco is dead- it has simply ben marginalized, to then become "retro" and then get marginalized again.

Think about it- if Opera of all things still lives, no music will ever die.

If Hip Hop died we might have more shitty songs... OH WAIT WE DO
It's dead.

None of those songs we considered Hip-Hop..who the hell put the Wack eyed peas in the hip-hop category...Nicki Manono & Drake are gimmicks & Timberland is trying hard to come back after he was put on blast by his artists so he is turning to JT... come on...the radio has been dead to me for years...Highlight the Real hip-hop artist like Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek who's new album drops Tuesday... Jay Electronica has a joint out Royce da 5'9 album is on fire...those other fools r gimmicks & I won't even get on luda & his bubble gum rap...Sergio is hilarious however!!!

yah... Hip-hop IS dead.

And using the word "hip hop" was pretty wack from the get go

Hip-hop is more like Hip-Pop nowadays.
Pure trash.

Bravo Sergio! Well said...... LMFAO!

Okay Saul Williams is a stretch but those who innovate stretch the genre... and then sell irony to Nike.

Might I add... Aesop rock, Mr.lif, atmosphere, Saul Williams five minutes on Pandora and you can find out what an empty husk top-40 hiphop is.

Those are the hot jams on the radio....but that's not real hip hop. Lol
Top 5 would have to be
Talib kweli
Jay electronica
Mos def
J cole
Drake......hip hop is growing older and more wiser.

Wait, wait... Hip Hop was alive?!?!

xD this is too funny. nah idont think so :/ too many pple like it dispite bad lyrics most pple like it for beats

What's the difference between rap and hip hop? I was schooled in rap, and it was so cool everyone wanted to be black.

MUSIC IN GENERAL NOWADAYS IS BULLSHEEEIT

Hip what?

WHAT IS HIP HOP NOW DAZE?

OKKKKKKK

the radio plays the same 10songs everyday on the hour and the real good singers Ledisi. the real good rappers mos def the dedicated musicans amel larriuex never get credit for any of the work they do but if people decided to rebel vs. going along with it then it all would change. all of the music sounds the same and hip hop has not and will not be the same ..the cycle of life is never ending so you can always expect change

yeah hip-hop is dead

Hey Sergio, then clowns you just made top 5 aren't HipHop...what are they contributing to the movement? To the elements of MCing, DJing, Breakdancing or Graffiti?

You're an offspring, Sergio....do some research man. For real.

I was in love with Hip Hop, Rakim, Tupac, KRS-One, De La Soul, Guru, EPMD... but with time, the bullshit rappers came in.. I won't name any, since I'm not looking to start a "my rapper is not wack nonsense"

But the great thing is, I don't need the new rap crap. I still have the classics, their music and I don't worry about it going away. Just like Tupac left us with his music, many other great Hip Hop artists also left us their music on Vinyl, Cd's and now digital music.

Hip Hop will never die!! To some folks maybe... but I grew up in the ghetto.. and just like my man Trench said..

"If you ain't ever been to the ghetto
Don't ever come to the ghetto
'Cause you can't understand the ghetto
So stay the fuck out of the ghetto"...

Not dead, but it's time in the mainstream ultra popular spotlight is fading, being replaced by easier to digest electronic and poppy dance for the suburban fans. It's going back underground, and at the end of the day, that's what is best for it.

Not dead, but it's time in the mainstream ultra popular spotlight is fading, being replaced by easier to digest electronic and poppy dance for the suburban fans. It's going back underground, and at the end of the day, that's what is best for it.

What has happened to the music I love?

I can see why hip-hop turned from city beats to over-commercialized with bling. Appalling.