Hip hop is not dead. The genre is evolving which is what you expect from all music. Real hip hop is dead I agree, you can thank ppl such as the overrated pac and biggie who commercialised their shit songs such as 'hit em up', which just told us the whole way through the song that biggie was a fat fuck, which we didnt need to be told, and introduced it to the teenybopper faggot cunts who valued beats over lyrics. Thankfully Nas is bringing his new album out which is now due to be released in november which should hopefully be the hip hop album of the 21st century, hopefully. We have shit like rhianna and ne-yo having number 1 albums, now what the fuk is that shit, ill throw that bitch in the ocean and make her call for a fkn S.O.S. Listen to Nas who is a true hip hop artist who actually had a message in his lyrics about life, real stuff that people want to know, instead of talking about fucking bitches, drugs, drivebys and money, hear the same shit in every song.