Then we talk about all these great artist but the album comes out we dont go buy it the wonder why they havent been seen after that or why they came with a second album and it was completly differnt than excpected. If like an artist we need to not bootleg the album and pass it to all are friends because no one benifits from that.

DSBG2006 im disappointed in y u dont like drake. Im not tryin to say you have to like him but your reason for not is weak. Im mean cause hes from canada, hes used to play on a corny show, and his style favors wayne and buddens. Come on man lets be real. I admit they probrably are working on a new image for him but artist dosent the industry work with. If you think about Jay-Z had to change his style of rap before really getting noticed. Nas didnt come out the gate hot. Flo rida hd a huge image change. Pharrell was already differnt from everbody. Ace Hood went through an image change. Thats how the industry goes. He was on degrassi so what. LL cool j, eve, wiil smth, common, mos def, p diddy, dmx, bow wow, and who ever else i forgot all make music that sells and the had a show or act so lets not hate cause he did. Drake dont rap about any real hood stuff so him being from canada has nothing to do with any thing.
Last if u look at the 2 best selling rappers after big and pac u got jay-z and wayne and if u follow them from the begining u would see they altered the way the rap before really selling records so y not follow in their footsteps.

So stop it please, stop the stupid talk. Hip Hop is always gonna change and evolve so just keep listening and watch as it will change and change and change.

Hip Hop will be here until infinity. I’m 29 and I remember back in the day my dad was like man that stuff ya’ll be listening to gonna soon die out. He was like that rap stuff ain’t gonna last too much longer. Now look the s**t still here and is a staple of the music industry.

Keep making the good music my niggas all ya’ll. Keep the Autotune crackin, keep the snappin, keep the gangsta gangsta, keep rappin with niggas singing on the track; keep the the rappin with the R&B artist singing on the joint like my man R Kelly.

But becareful of fake artists trying to infiltrate and copy styles and say this and say that, but their image don’t match up, hint {Drake}. That’s why he never signed a record deal before now, dude his image is horrible. He tries to rap like Wayne & Joe Budden, but them niggas got street swag with they game. This nigga from Canada from a freakin gay ass T.V. show come on now. Don’t be fooled by bulls**t people!!!!!!!!!!

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I have to respectfully disagree with you there. We have real talent that COULD make it today out there today if people could HEAR them. We have allowed out radio waves to be hijacked by big conglomerate corporations who could not care less about talent or substance. Its all about the bottom line and the future bottom line. A lot of the music and imagery we consume now is strategic. Its designed to make you a good consumer in the future by shaping the way we see the world and molding our self image. That’s why there is no “feel good” music or “music of substance”. They don’t want you thinking critically. They want you buying into foolishness that you will hate yourself for tomorrow.Then they’ll sell you a product that will make you feel better about that too. But listen to Jasmine Sullivan, Jennifer Hudson, Reuben Studdard. Real music is being made…it just can’t get airplay. The people are hungry, they just don’t have access to the dinner table.

Aretha Franklin would never make it today if she was a starving artist during this time frame.She would be compared to Beyonce and then tossed out a window.Even though she would slay Beyonce on any stage on any given night,she wouldn’t have the look….Isn’t that a part of how Diddy judged the peeps on “Making the Band”? Would she make it on his show????? REALLY???

I agree with the previous posters who say that there is talent out there but its dont conform to what is considered hot so it gets no play.

The state of Hip Hop is in a disarray because there is no originality which was a mainstay when I was coming up. It used to be strictly no biting back in the days, no every nigga trying to sound like the next nigga.