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Originally Posted by Osnabrueck  Yeah Hip Hop is dead, but at the same time, the entire music industry is dead.
Right now, if you turn on your radio, its all about junk-food crunk and hyphie stuff - which is fine by me. I get a kick outta the stuff. It's funny - as a more diverse palette of entertainment is offered to us via the internet, mainstream radio continues to consolidate and offers less and less programming choice.
Yeah, there's good hip-hip poppin', just like there's good indie bands doing their thing and good DJs working a new sound - it's just that nobody outside their respective scenes are paying much attention, and record sales are doomed to be forever slow thanks to our proclivity to download free music. |
I'm not sure I agree with your last statement.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I know amongst my pals, we've purchased more music as a direct result of the internet than we did before having the ability to download music (& we purchased a lot of music before the internet helped out). There are a lot of bands we now know about that we would've had no clue about before.