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Hip-hop Ain't Died Because Of The South, That's Retarded.

There Was A Lot Of Negative That Was Put On Rappers For Using The Word, And I Feel Like We're Just Misunderstood. Most Of Us Are; Some Of Us Is Just Plain Wack.

Anything That's Really Good, Everybody Wants To Put Their Hands On. The Multimedia Puts Their Hands On It And Everything Happens That Makes It Global. Then People Forget The Roots Of It And People Forget Why They Care About It, And Then It Gets Torn Apart And Turns So Commercial That You Don't Even Know What The Essence Of This Art Form Is Even About.

People Have Stopped Battling In Hip Hop, In The Primitive Sense, And The Focus Of The Competitive Element Has Shifted To The Music. It's Less About Bragging And More About Being The Best Lyrically And Poetically.

You Got A Handful Of Great Guys - Ne-yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You Have A Handful Of Great Female Artists. But For The Most Part The Music World's Changing And Change Is Good. You Have To Make Adjustments If You Want To Survive In That World.