is it just me, or is hip-hop getting really bad?

[Simmzay]

Jay-Z only had one good album, his first. But I agree with The Roots and Rakim. Rakim's got (or had) talent.

[RedStratocas]

Children please..... you need Eric B. & Rakim, The Roots, Jay-Z, and other people like that. Yeah Jay-Z is more g rap now I guess but he has a lot of good hip-hop beats. The problem is that you're listening to the wrong artists. Dizzee Rascal was always a fake and has never been good (he's basically "rap" for scene kids), so don't base your views on the entire genre on him.

rootsrootsrootsrootsroots

[liquid]

i love the roots album, but that was last year. i'm on about this year :]

[shiver]

oh i agree wid dis timbaland motion. fall out boy ruined the album, with possibly the worst song ever. luvin scream wid nicole and keri tho

[FlyingJesus]

Hmm haven't been keeping up with music this year too well, have spent my time letting the 90s catch up with me first

[liquid]

haha, the discussion of NWA in this thread gave me a brilliant advert at the top of the forum:

[RedStratocas]

i'm actually looking foward to kanye west's new album. he's got a bunch of indie guest stars on it, haha. he sampled daft punk on stronger, rapped over peter bjorn & john, samples thom yorke, and apparently chris martin is a guest singer on it.

[Simmzay]

Kanye West, while improving, is still pretty terrible. He should stick to producing.

[Gangster]

Kanye west aint that bad Can't Tell Me Nothing is a good song.

[majesticdragon]

Kanye's new album is amazing as is 50cent's but you should go for people like wiley completley ignored cos of the likes of dizzee rascal, also try black the ripper he is amazing I have lost no faith in hip hop at all it's just that nelly and outkast have dissapeared and they were bringing the most tracks out.