Nas was right
Hip-hop is dead. Nas said so. As if the mere existence of MIMS and Fergie weren’t enough evidence of this, now TIME magazine is now acknowledging that hip-hop sales are plummetting, as they outline in this article. I’ll admit it, I’m getting tired of hearing that someone’s “Hot cause’ he’s fly, and I ain’t cause I’m not.” Or R. Kelly thinking that he’s clever rhyming on the same word. Or entire hip-hop songs consisted of words being spelled. Or how it’s raining and I need an umbrella-ella-ella-ella.
But I think TIME is being defeatist. It is trying to reassert white supremacy over the minorities. “[Hip-hop] is collapsing because they can no longer fool the white kids”, says Richard Nickels, manager of the Roots. I guess now that they’re busy not being fooled, they will have more time to spend on oppression and racist activities. But I will not stand for that! Hip-hop is not dead, at least, not for me. There are three pre-conditions that must be met before hip-hop is dead. As long as hip-hop continues to:
- Keep the additions of new words on Urbandictionary.com high
- Give Nate Gulley insight on how to appeal to the minorities
- Keep the standards of music/lyrical quality very, very low
then it is doing its job.
