Quote Originally Posted by PhAtBoYMr2
Yeah i understand
You better.

Quote Originally Posted by PhAtBoYMr2
but i also understand that your older and this shit nowadays doesn't give you the same feeling but iv'e noticed a trend towards the older crowd that listens to rap pre 90's, they all are the ones saying "hip hop is dead" and everything is shitty nowadays

Just as long as there is pen, paper, and a microphone hip hop will never be dead.
You're right that I am odler and that I grew up listening to the originals of rap/hip hop. I don't think hip hop is dead. Just dying. It's basically just staying in ICU on life support, lolol.

Quote Originally Posted by PhAtBoYMr2
I really don't see a difference in hip hop now or 20 years ago,
That may be because you weren't around when DMC first came about and Kool Herc and Flash and all them cats who brought this out. I was 10 when Sugar Hill came up. When Melle Mel dropped. I was listening, as best as I could, to everything. Knowing everything I could know about it and everyone involved. It was truly an awesome thing to see develop. There is little creativity now. It's basically "all been done before." There are new styles to invent and all, but it comes from the originals.

Quote Originally Posted by PhAtBoYMr2
people are dancing and bopping there heads to the new age of hip hop so what is the difference from now compared to 20 years ago?
Again, it is just the new age, like you said. This is what the younger crowd(yourself) listens to. In that, there is no difference.

All in all, Mark, everything you said can be applied to all forms of music. My Mom's parents couldn't understand why my Mom loved the Beatles. My Mom couldn't understand what I though was so cool about Egyptian Lover or Duran Duran. Your heart lies with the music you grow up with. That's all. Later, QD.