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

[omgitslily]

I don't like hip hop full stop anymore, stopped liking it about a year and a half ago.

I have to admit, Kanye West is really good, but it annoys me how he samples a lot of music instead of thinking of his own.

[YoManGo!]

kanye west is wayyy overrated. i mean his delivery's ok but his flow really sucks.

[English]

In this thread, I've only seen a few "hip-hop" artists.

[Simmzay]

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.

Outkast are teh sex, Andre's one of the best verbalists out there. Even the new "Idlewild" CD is worth listening to.

[FlyingJesus]

Don't like Kanye West really.. he's alright but it just doesn't strike me as anything spectacular. As for sampling; that's what a lot of hiphop artists and rappers do, and it can actually take a lot of skill to do it well.

[English]

Don't like Kanye West really.. he's alright but it just doesn't strike me as anything spectacular. As for sampling; that's what a lot of hiphop artists and rappers do, and it can actually take a lot of skill to do it well.

To get samples to "fit" together is a bloody hard job and so mis-understood. People think it's a matter of sampling instruments together and voila, but it's difficult.

[Ras]

If you dont like stronger check his first single to the album Graduation. Its called "Cant Tell Me Nothing" .. Totally different song then stronger.