To me...yes, hip-hop is pretty much dead. I haven't heard a good record in a long time for me to justify buying the whole F_king album. Hell, I don't even bother pirating songs...they suck anyways. As much as you're right Luwalira, you're wrong at the same time. You've been to cali...tell me how much of the Real-Life songs do you hear on the radio over the Gats-Bitches-Money crap? Tell me what all the kids talk about at school? Is it how Jay-Z is right about Afro-American issues or the Yin-Yang Twins + Bubba Sparx "Miss new booty"? Yes almost all the rappers out there have at least one song on their album that deals with some real, everyday issues...but most of the crap on the album is mone-bitches-gats crap. Why? Because that's what sells the albums.

Don't even talk about Kanye...he is a self-absorbed retard. He talks about the ghetto yet the boy grew up rich..Why should I even listen to him? I grew up in the ghetto...not the projects but still it was ghetto. Shit...I have more street cred than Kanye.

The one thing I hate is that people blame sh!t on piracy...here is my response: Make a better F_cking album...simple. I haven't pirated music in years and I mean many years...right now the only thing I listen to is Punjabi music and internet radio (DI fm). thats it...I haven't heard my local radio in may be 2 years...seriously. The last few good (by good I mean good beats..thats it) rap songs I heard were Loco and Candy by Snoop Dog and "Show me what you got" the new Jay-Z song...thats it.