Is the world of hip-hop losing it's appeal as a voice of the unheard?

with corporate america who once hated hip-hop and what it stands for.is now using hip-hop as a way to sell,advertise it's product.

Is the world of hip-hop losing it's appeal as a voice of the unheard?live com

Unfortunately, we of the hip-hop generation of the late 80's to mid 90's are gone. It makes me laugh when I see young light coloured men cruising around in their $30,000 cars with Jay Z or 2Pac blaring on their stereos. These were the guys who in my time, turned their noses up to us darker skinned people and our hip-hop music. In our time we had to go to special record stores or order it from America to find our music, now...the market is saturated. It no longer means anything other than "make money for me, me, me". IT IS LOST AND GONE FOREVER.

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lol hip-hop has essentially phased itself out. by using itself to market products it has essentially become a corporate entity itself, thus eliminating the future potential for true art to come from the genre.

i would blame those like puff daddy and jay z for this one, they essentially ruined the genre of hip-hop. Before 1996 you didn't hear 2 Pac, Snoop Dogg or Dr. Dre doing anything but representing where they came from and who they are, which is what art is about. Remember the Doggystyle and Chronic music videos, every item of clothing they wore they blurred out the brand name, now they center on it.

These people are no longer musicians anymore in this genre, they are puppets. They RARELY have any control over the songwriting or production of their own music, they are just there for the commercial image (pretty face). There are still a few good ones out there, but they are dwindling fast.
Losing? It's lost it's voice in the late 80s. Once again, producers took music that said something and squeezed as much profit from it as they could tell it became irrelevant.
For the most part it has with many groups just selling out to sell records. You can still find some underground artists though that are a "voice of the unheard." Also, Common is somewhat holding true to the roots of hip hop
Hip-hop and rap have morphed together as a meaningless fad. A lot of people just write lyrics that have girls, cars, money, drugs, and the streets in them to be accepted by mtv and to have their shot at the big time. I am yet to come across a hip hop song with a meaning other than I got shot up in the street today or I lost my "boo." Hip-hop was never really the voice of the unheard because once it evolved from jazz and pop it caught on extremely quickly. I hope that gives you an answer.