Hip-hop is NOT dead. It is Hip-Pop (i.e. P-fucking-Diddy) that is ruining hip-hop. Maybe NaS was exposed to the mainstream rap industry too long and felt that he needed to make an album titled "Hip-Hop is Dead". The best is underground and concious(i.e. Boot Camp Clik, 9th Wonder, RZA, Hieroglyphics, The Roots). Not D4L, Mike Jones, Lil' Wayne (some one kill him) or any of these embarrassments!
by twistedbabydoll August 18, 2007
hip hop is tha voice or expression through music on a lyrical level, produced wit tuff beats. this form of music shows people who came from nothing and have made something of themselves. ex. Master P is one of tha richest men in tha world and has been in tha game for a minute.
"...so whats the differece between rap and hip hop? its like saying your in love and being in love. rap is just a word..."
Brown Sugar: for eliterate people its a movie
Brown Sugar: for eliterate people its a movie
by tha_rugged_child May 12, 2003
Hip Hop is a sorry excuse for music. Whatever happened to singing about emotion, rather than endorsements? And now you've gone and inspired a bunch of white kids with their EXCO and FUBU and $700 shoes to go get shot... no one likes a wigger. Often the people that listen to it dress like thugs. The white kids(I mean kids, because no respectable adult would buy into such shit) all of a sudden learn ebonics and talk poorly. They all think that people respect them. They don't, people just think they're fucking criminals.
I got shot nine times, and now I'm endorsed by McDonalds! Also, I like to talk about the bad shape of the "hood" and giving hope to the kids, but really, I'm overcharging them on CDs, and making millions! PIMP PIMP!!! Hip-hop...
by IAMCOOL September 24, 2005
"Hip-hop" consists of the murderous mumblings of retarded, crotch-grabbin' gutter monkeys from da ghetto. While the rest of us drive rickety shit wagons & wonder where the rent money is gonna come from, these dusky artistes live in McMansions & cruise the Sunset Strip in Maybachs, instead of residing in the nation's Death Rows & morgues as Nature intended.
Thanx, Murray Rothstein!
Thanx, Murray Rothstein!
Hip-Hop lovin' Wigger: "Yo dawg - you heard da new Fiddy? Dat shit is PHAT, nigga!"
Me: (pulling back the slide).....
Me: (pulling back the slide).....
by NBFORREST1 April 30, 2011
Hip Hop is a social-political movement created in the late 70's. Hip Hop is a culture to give people who grew up in the ghetto a voice, songs in hip hop are spoken from personal experience. Songs are usually mixed with other genres of music like rock and classical (piano), or with record players and scratchers. Break Dancing and Graffiti is also apart of hip hop as a way to express the people apart of the cultures selves, Freestyling is also a major part of hip hop along with rap battles.
"Some people argue that hip hop is dead, I believe that hip hop lives underground, the unfortunate thing is that the culture is getting smaller and smaller."
"Don't confuse hip hop for rap music, rap is just words, hip hop is the context, the beat, the dance movements, hip hop is a culture, and if you grew up in the ghetto and found a voice in hip and use personal experience in the context of your rap, and use record scratchers and mix genres of music then you are most likely apart of the culture."
"Don't confuse hip hop for rap music, rap is just words, hip hop is the context, the beat, the dance movements, hip hop is a culture, and if you grew up in the ghetto and found a voice in hip and use personal experience in the context of your rap, and use record scratchers and mix genres of music then you are most likely apart of the culture."
by Madison P May 13, 2015
A name for the 4 elements of the late 70's New York City renaissance which includes break dancing, emceeing, (rapping) graffiti, and turntablism.
by Nate Hamer January 15, 2003