Comments on: USA Today Poses The Question: Can rap regain its crown?

By: Young Sir

Young Sir — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:03:56 +0000

Hip-Hop will definitly retain record sells… i got two words for you….. No Case http://www.myspace.com/nocaseyg

get at me

By: dbizzle

dbizzle — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:38:25 +0000

fuck that shit all the real niggas keepin doin the shit you doin, you rep all us niggas. dont change what you doin the streets will always support you.

By: BlueBerry

BlueBerry — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:39:18 +0000

There is a direct relationship between the dominance of the south and the decline of hip hop sales in particular.

By: vest

vest — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:04:09 +0000

RECORD SALES STARTED DROPPING WHEN THE SOUTH TOOK OVER CAUSE MORE THEN HAVE OF THEM DUDES IS TRASH.

By: weee

weee — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:44:37 +0000

OMG. You know what I hate? Stupid boys and girls yelling FIRRSSTT!!! at the first comment box. Its super annoying. Didn’t your mom ever tell you if u keep doing something, ur gonna stay like that. when you eat ur food, ur gonna yell FIRRSTTTTT, when u take a piss ‘FIIRSSTT’, when you raise ur hand to answer a question ‘FIIRSSTTT’.

By: Trayday

Trayday — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:51:46 +0000

well said! Also there is some good rap ou there. I haven;t heard anything about KRS one’s new joint. I heard it one time and nothing else. These corporations only want us to see one kind of rap. Wonder why that is? Look at our communities, 58 percent of black women are raising their children alone. Then just about every rap song women called bitches and hoes. Women are raising our next generation with barely any help and damn sure no respect from men. Still think this music hasn’t affected us? Make as many songs revering the black woman as they made degrading her and maybe things might turn around. Good place to start if ya ask me.

By: CrazyJoe

CrazyJoe — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:39:01 +0000

There is little innovation in Rap right now on the mainstream level. I find myself just listening to my older hip hop (and i ain’t talking ol skool Melly Mel, i mean like NWA or Tribe or Quik or Raekwon). I am one who is a HUGE hip hop head but artists like Bjork, Radiohead, Lilly Allen, M.I.A. and others are making quality music and have taken me away from the daily 50 vs Camron tiffs or Tru Life on Youtube daily talking about something that has no relevance or another rapper slain etc.. Also it is so easy to make the 808 drum clap sound that everyone in ever hood got like 4 rappers like this. Why if i am living in Oakland do i need to hear the same ish from Miami? I really hope Common goes platinum, that and Kanye are the only albums i am looking forward to. They actually take time with their projects, they don’t get “the hot producer” or 10,000 guests or 100 crew joints. I also am looking forward to Will.I.AM cause say wat u want he is a crazy ass producer and has ideas and puts them to fruition. $$, hoes, niggas, guns blah blah blah “you talkin’ loud but u ain’t saying nothing”

By: Sax

Sax — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:49:30 +0000

The death of on thing signifies the birth of somthing else……………hopefully that means the rebirth of emcee’s actually spittin from the soul and not from the greed and the love of money……….back to the essence baby……..it always comes back to the essence………hip-hop didnt die it just took an hiatus……..and trust when i say it came to North Carolina…………chea!

By: Siah

Siah — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:27:19 +0000

Basically I think that the lack of good artists is some cause to this slack in hip hop sales. I agree that people are getting tired of the “gansta” persona. You can already see it now with artists leaning towards the whole rockstar attitude. To be honest, I like the whole “party like a rockstar” thing. It’s different. Plus, I too am sick of the same thing, and for some reason no rapper or hip hop artist is breaking out of the shell. In other words it’s getting boring.

Oh and another thing. I believe the new hip hop artists today get sales because of the producers who produce some sick beats and songs. Not because of what they say. (Some exceptions: Lil’ Wayne, T.I. etc.)

By: common

common — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:15:17 +0000

there’s no excuse for poor album sales apart from poor song material.
its that simple,make better music,earn more sales.

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