Yeah Hip Hop is dead, but at the same time, the entire music industry is dead.

Right now, if you turn on your radio, its all about junk-food crunk and hyphie stuff - which is fine by me. I get a kick outta the stuff. It's funny - as a more diverse palette of entertainment is offered to us via the internet, mainstream radio continues to consolidate and offers less and less programming choice.

Yeah, there's good hip-hip poppin', just like there's good indie bands doing their thing and good DJs working a new sound - it's just that nobody outside their respective scenes are paying much attention, and record sales are doomed to be forever slow thanks to our proclivity to download free music.