Why Hip Hop is Dead

Have you heard a track lately and wondered… “Hmmm… I think I’ve heard them sing this before…” Well that’s because you have! They sing about the same materialistic and egotistical bullsh*t such as ‘bling’, money, bitches, fancy cars, alcohol, rims, ‘bustin’ caps’, gangs, their egos and sex. Oh, did I mention asses?

Another noticeable thing about these artists’ songs is that the setting is always the same whether they’re in the club, on the dance floor, on the streets, in the ghetto, or in someone’s pants. Hip-hop artists must mention their name in the beginning of the song, middle of the song, at the end of any song or all of the above. They have to sing about themselves in third person. They have to say they are richer and better than you. What’s funny is that artists brag about “how much money they have” in today’s economy when people are losing jobs and can’t afford bare necessities. Great message!

If you thought the theme of Hip-hop and RnB is repetitive, the beats they use are much worse. Honestly, the beats all sounds the same, GarageBand or synthesizer generated so you have this same repetitive beat playing the entire song. Can’t they change the beat or the flow of the song at least once?

Hip-hop and RnB artists purposely steal lyrics from other artists and throw them into their own song and pretend as if they are original. Here are some examples:

Original song: Eiffel 65 - I’m Blue

Hip Hop Rip Off: Flo Rida ft. Wynter - Sugar

Original Song: Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Around

Hip Hop Rip Off: Flo Rida ft. Kesha – Right Around

Original Song: Paula Abdul - Straight Up

Hip Hop Rip Off: J Cole – Work Out

Stealing lyrics from other songs just isn’t enough. Very often, you’ll hear the same phrases and same lyrics in a song.

Example phrase used by the following rappers: “if you ain’t got no money take your broke ass home”

Used by the following artists:

Fergie ft. Ludacris - Glamorous

Webbie – Independent

The Cool Kids – Bassment

Ludacris ft. Small World – Pinky Shinin

Pussycat Dolls – Out Of This Club

Okay, okay, I get it! If I don’t have any money I will take my broke ass home, but I’ll stay here until the rest of the night since I don’t have any money to blow in this club.

The purpose of a cover song is to release a new and updated version of the song which should be cool but at the same time stays meaning to the true original song. Nowadays, artists butcher them adding random rap lyrics in the middle of the song, not to mention making a million covers of songs (why? Why?). I guess when you run out of ideas you can only steal lyrics and phrases and re use them for so long.

This started with T-Pain followed by Lil Wayne. The most annoying thing you can expose your ears to is now being used today by every rapper in almost every song. I for one have never seen the appeal it has and would rather listen to Justin Bieber’s “Baby baby baby oh” song for 4 hours than a Lil Wayne auto-tune. There is very little creativity in today’s mainstream rap.

1. Soulja Boy – Discovered online, this guy started something so horrible it ruined hip-hop’s credibility. Have you heard any other songs besides “Crank That”? It is ear rape! Check out the song called “what’s hannenin”, it has about 5 different words and is the most annoying song in the world.

2. T-Pain - The perpetrator who started the auto-tune craze. 99% of his music is garbage, which is not a big surprise. T-Pain is a shitty rapper to begin with, so he fixed it with auto-tune to sound like a robotic fag.

3. Lil Wayne - The sole reason why people hate hip-hop today. His lyrics make no sense and are shitty beyond comprehension. The fact that all his biggest hits have to use auto-tune sickens me. His fans are fucking idiots too (14-16 year old girls) and are more retarded than Jonas Brothers fan girls. Its bad enough how today’s music rips off trance and techno genre, Lil Wayne is planning to release a rock album in February 2012.

In conclusion, mainstream hip-hop is a sellout genre and has been dead for over a decade. Rappers from the old generation (before 1997) had better meaning in their songs because they talked about real issues. They had good beats and creative sampling (like B.I.G. and Beastie Boys). The new generation of hip-hop and RnB is just a disgrace and pure garbage. Of course there are underground artists that exist today, the majority of the people do not know about them therefore those artists cannot help hip-hop’s lost cause.

So what did we learn from this? What will happen now? Unfortunately record companies will continue to push out more of the same crap down the chute and the kind of people that will buy this nonsense are the mentally ill.