Comments for Is Hip-Hop Dead? Part 2 at http://www.rapzilla.com/rz , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.rapzilla.com/rz Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:56:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-2375 The reaon hip hop is dying is because of the type of lyrics in most of the songs. Rappers like Ludacris and Snoop Dog are always rapping about shooting somebody or having sex of some kind. If rappers stopped rapping about violence and sex then maybe people would listen. - Matt C Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:50:12 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1849 Its funny for me to see people getting fired up over that statement and pointing out that God is life and the cecular is lifeless. The Hip-Hop is dead statement was not based on a spiritual factor. When people say Hip-Hop is dead in my opinion they are talking about the artistry behind it. Is there any creativity behind the majority of the popular Hip-Hop at the moment? Being an emcee is an art form. Nobody is putting any effort to elevate the art form. Hip-Hop is not moved by talent but by how much we can make. So in the race to make money we lost sight of what Hip-Hop was built on. Personally my beliefe is that Hip-Hop has evolved. Its a clone of its former self which has been diluted with toxins. The entire culture suffers at the moment because of it. Granted there are artist on both sides of the fence that continue to create music with substance but in the music industry majority rules and the goes for the christian industry or the cecular. Just my two cents.. www.myspace.com/slangrapdemocracy - Abstract Unique Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:04:53 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1280 Hip Hop is alive and well, both right here in the Holy Hip Hop area, as well as the underground artists. It came from people like us, back in the day. To say it is dead now, by looking at top 100 charts, is the same thing as saying it wasn't alive until the media picked up on it in the 80s. It is simply going back to the people, where it started, and where it will continue to live. If you go back and look at the principles of early hip hop and rap, as stated by the founders, you will see that what you hear on the radio isn't even close to what they had in mind. Holy Hip Hop is on top of the hip hop game right now, it is the closest thing to those principles, even closer than the underground going around right now. Also when you say Hip Hop, be thinking larger than just rap, cus its a culture, and always has been. The culture is currently blowing up around the world right now. Look at breaking, we got people breaking on all the street corners in Europe and Asia, just like back in the day. - just my 2 cents (guess you can put me in the group of people upset about it even being a question, haha) blessings all - RealityHipHop.net Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:39:07 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1248 What can we say? I don’t think that a lot of people think that rap is actually rap music but I have not really liked rap music my whole like when I was an unbeliever I just listened to it because it was something that other people listened to. The word of god says understand time and know how to minister to it. it might seem that rap or hip hop is dead but I don’t think that it will ever die or start to die to many people are influenced by that culture and that is why we still have gangs violence and people dying. So we just have to know how to understand them and talk to them. - michel M seporghan Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:01:50 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1210 does it even really matter - who u think Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:27:30 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1205 Of course we all know how devestating the lyrics in secular rap is, but what's killing it is the artists that labels are putting out. MIMS cant sell an album because he's a one hit wonder. When artists put out great CDs, they see great sells. When they don't they get ringtone sells. Once the industry figures out that the people want good music, Kingdom music will flourish like never before and nobody will think about calling it dead! Until then, we need the Body to support us like the world supports theirs!!! - C-Sick Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:51:46 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1190 Honestly, because we are making Christ-centered music hip hop is not dead in a spiritual sense. Mainstream hip hop is dead because of its message. Unfortunately the world sees it as C.R.E.A.M. AND that's cash but we see it as Christ. The world is ripe for Christ and also ripe for destruction. Revelation tells it and we know how it ends, but it's how we affect our country and this world that determines how many stand and how many fall... - meiko Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:15:41 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1187 Illegal downloading is up to a new high as well. Too bad the influences have to remain. - Matthew Kerr Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:12:49 +0100 http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/557/83/#comment-1165 ye whoever says hiphop is dead is not lookin at the facts it is just one of thoes media roumers that people like to feed off of as much as secular hiphop is dead spiritually in itself it is vary alive what kind of music do clubs play? contury? no hiphop is the most rythem based genre out there soooo that is my opinion anyway - isaac Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:35:08 +0100