OP-ED: How Did The “Hater” Kill Hip-Hop?!

Excellent article

I was almost on the side of this article…almost.

The term “hater” goes a lot further than liquor comparisons- I’ve heard it stretch over into political disagreements as well.

The article lost me after the examples. “Hater” allows the quick responses to disagreement because there is so much intollerance to EVEN LISTEN to the other. No one even wants to listen… so these quick “cotton candy” fit RIGHT in with our fast-paced lifestyles.

I did like the term “bailout terminology” but it was shamefully wasted on a term like “hater.” The same people who holler “hater” in an instant are kin to the people who would yell out a term like “racism” every time there was a disagreement with someone of another race.

You talk about the “state of hip hop” as if it’s on life support or needing reviving, but you fail mention the differences that fall under the term “hip-hop” like music for the youth in their SouljaBoy and OJ down to swag rappers like Jay-Z and Wayne all the way to conscious rappers like Nas, Common, Kweli, etc.

Good concept- Poor execution;
go ahead and say it….

The article is on point, now if I can just get my 18 yr old to stop saying “thingy.” Imagine if Lauren Hill sang the song “that Thingy, that thingy..that thiiingy” See it just doesn’t work.

I agree with the article, but I want to add sumthing else…In my opinion, this is the same as peer-pressure and “sticks and stones”…ppl use “hater” as a persuasive method…Don’t waiver on your opinion and shrug dem haters off…If you agree that you are “hating”, show them that you don’t give a f**k that your “hating”, and stick to your personal opinion then the value of the term “hater” drops!

some of us were never affected by the word..but the numbers are so small it couldnt affect what was being played on the radio ,said on TV,videos,clubs.etc. MONEY is bigger than the word hater ..the lawyers that run showbiz !! believe in cookie cutter music..everything has a place but when it shows that big money is to be made..place go’s out the window..we exhaust the talent until it is no more because of money.. every era of showbiz has done it ..greed created the word hater ..when some of us started saying what we didnt like..others were try to justify
a crappy song or video, tv show
etc..so we understand that people dont want tastful anymore because it doesnt sell..crap does !!!! so we silenced critics who know the truth by using the word HATER………

I must say music now days is just ridiculous. Anytime you come out with a song call “Do The Halle Berry” you know the music industry is over.

wait…hold up….why you hatin on MD 20/20??? YOU A HATER!

Oh wow.. I had this EXACT thought yesterday, sitting in my bed thinking.. f**k, the word hater just empowers f**king losers and makes them think whatever it is they’re doing is right and everyone is wrong.. thats SO weird that someone wrote this the next day.. I was even thinking, someone needs to WRITE a piece on this! THANK YOU!

Its funny cause its true. I told somebody about the particular artist and the ones that would perfer not to listen to, and I’m hatin one them cause I don’t like them. No nigga I;m not hatin one nobody I just like good music. And a hot line shouldnt be a hot song no matter who you are. And at the rate hip hop is ging now Ima make my some daamn money all you need is a hot bet and a stupid dance an boom instant millionare…

Yo, I got “hated” on last week on this site by some damn Kanye West dick sucka, I mean dude clownin’ me just because I worte what I think dude’s new book gon’ be about. I mean, I’m just voicin’ my ideas, if you don’t agree-don’t response- that simple. But some people feel that when they “stand” up for some star a*****e that don’t even know they exist, ain’t payin’ they’re bills, nothing- to another person, that they protectin’ that nigga’s honor WTF?!!
Whoever wrote this is on point! this article couldn’t have come at a better time on this site.

man f**k lil wayne

I feel you-in the context of which the article was written only. But in reality sometimes some people need to get hated on. I’ll claim being a hater but not like those in the article. hell i even got it on my plates!

I hate from the heart- there is such a thing. Sometimes puting sm1 on blast is the key. I put my neighbor on blast for not keepin an eye on her kids, trickin’, and then frontin’ like shes a church lady when she wants sm1 to watch them in 1 swoop.

I have more like that, but the point being: sometimes hatin’ can actually raise the level of moral or efforts people put into a thing. Only warning to this style of hatin’ is that every now and then one may have to physically help not just talk sh*t!

Oh yeah and ladies…hate that rude guy out yo face in the club when he won’t stop, the embarassment will ususally send him and his lame friends away.