i am tired of hearing all this "hip hop is dead" bull****.
this thread is for all those who believe in it's existance and are continuing to dig and and search high and low for that real hip hop music.
for those of you who have lost hope completely and who are ignorant enough to believe that hip hop is dead, may this thread replenish your faith and possibly change your mind!

now post proof that that real hip hop lives!

Strange Fruit Project - this group gets me excited about hip hop. their album, The Healing, is my favorite of the moment. kick ass production and 3 exremely talented MCs, although one dude sounds A LOT like Phonte. it's whatever though. that's not even a bad thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcKOKvuueg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PBa-oayf40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7t-0FqAvGo

Jay Electronica - if you're sleeping on this dude...WAKE THE **** UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXmNeuM7Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9E_XrKKMdw (<-this song inspires me :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03jJCD1ganI

Brother Ali - his new release, The Truth is Here, is maaad legit. i love Brother Ali. he comes hard without fail and, personally, i find that when im listening to his music i am generally more optamistic about my life.
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that old guy is brother ali? either way best song i've heard this year, his style reminds me of phaorohe monch

Hip-hop lives!

It's not dead, it's just different.....I'll never give up on it as a whole. I still find plenty of **** I like.....

Okey, this group you posted Strange Fruit project.. Just heard some of the song you posted and I agree with you.. They're pretty good.

But you must agree with me hiphop is heading/evolving into an R&B/Club genre that in GENERAL sounds like it's a completely different genre than what many would consider TRUE hip hop

It's weak music that lasts for a few weeks and are forgotten because it's nothing but talk about money or *****es.. Lyrics is weak.. You can stand to hear some of it.. Yes.. But calling it true rap/hip hop is in general an insult to some of the mid 80's 90's rap

Hip-hop lives!

Reported for lying.:hijacked:

Good thread Meg, I'll check the first two artists you mentioned later but Brother Ali is a great MC and dropped the EP of the year so far. Hip-hop is not dead, people are lazy.

that old guy is brother ali? either way best song i've heard this year, his style reminds me of phaorohe monch

He aint old. He's an albino with a white beard so he just looks old. haha

I've mentioned Brother Ali numerous times on this board and never got any replies. It's about time he got some recognition. His first two albums are the ****!

I've mentioned Brother Ali numerous times on this board and never got any replies. It's about time he got some recognition. His first two albums are the ****!



Brother ali is nice. Im waiting on his new EP coming, hearing good things about it. Dvd looks cool also.

Hip Hop was here well before us and it will be here well after we're dead and gone...

Hip Hop has never died...It has simply evolved...Lyrics, styles, entertainment, swagger, etc..It has its good as well as its bad..It has its legends and it has its peeons...It's here to stay..

hip hop will never die.

Hip Hop was here well before us and it will be here well after we're dead and gone...

Hip Hop has never died...It has simply evolved...Lyrics, styles, entertainment, swagger, etc..It has its good as well as its bad..It has its legends and it has its peeons...It's here to stay..

it has not evolved.

i am tired of hearing all this "hip hop is dead" bull****.
this thread is for all those who believe in it's existance and are continuing to dig and and search high and low for that real hip hop music.
for those of you who have lost hope completely and who are ignorant enough to believe that hip hop is dead, may this thread replenish your faith and possibly change your mind!

now post proof that that real hip hop lives!

Strange Fruit Project - this group gets me excited about hip hop. their album, The Healing, is my favorite of the moment. kick ass production and 3 exremely talented MCs, although one dude sounds A LOT like Phonte. it's whatever though. that's not even a bad thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcKOKvuueg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PBa-oayf40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7t-0FqAvGo

Jay Electronica - if you're sleeping on this dude...WAKE THE **** UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXmNeuM7Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9E_XrKKMdw (<-this song inspires me :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03jJCD1ganI

Brother Ali - his new release, The Truth is Here, is maaad legit. i love Brother Ali. he comes hard without fail and, personally, i find that when im listening to his music i am generally more optamistic about my life.
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Well different people mean different things when they say "Hip Hop" and it is mostly based on when you grew up.

For people who grew up say in the 80's, Hip Hop was a community, and that community's mind and attitude, it wasn't a couple of isolated musicians in little corners around the country making records in studios. As Nas once put it, Hip hop isn't art, it's a conversation within a community.

If someone grew up at a period when Hip Hop was already on a respirator they would actually define it differently. They would see it as quality music that they were able to dig up from both the past and various corners of the present. Hip Hop would basically be defined as a bunch of music on a disc.

There was a time when Hip Hop was...well something more living


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