Why is Hip/Hop more like a Minstrel Show?

[AUChamps]

I mean seriously, it's like Soulja Boy and his ilk didn't learn from history and what they're popularizing is the Minstrel Show of the 21st Century. 2Pac and Biggie would be rolling in their graves to hear the crap that's coming out of mainstream Black Entertainment. Bob Johnson at BET should be ashamed of himself for selling out to Big Media and letting them use his channel and baby as a Vehicle for this moneymaking garbage.

Youtube "I Gotta Dollar" by YV. Their trademark dance in the video is the "Buckwheat". 'Nuff said. This is the future of hip/hop unless we get some real leaders to step up and take these ....(can't be "real" and what what I really think because I'm white and don't want to be branded as a White Uncle Tom).... and stop their influence on young minds that don't know any better.

[GetEmGamecocks]

example: something is horribly wrong when an artist goes from making masterpeices like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdh8EDWT5M

to songs like this that make you go "what the f*ck was he thinking???"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xwQRMd8ls&feature=related

[AUChamps]

And the sad thing is, that song is already 2-3 years old.

Now, we have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv612nCWXA8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj63G4MZpms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySbXw8AHlKM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5GX46Otd0

[Bburton86]

Get Kanye West's Graduation.

[AUChamps]

Get Kanye West's Graduation.
Kanye's not being cocky. He's being honest when he's saying he's the only good thing coming out of mainstream hip/hop right now. And I agree, every song I've heard from "Graduation" has been great. He deserves every Grammy he can get tonight.

[D^3]

It's a phase that every genre of music goes through. Rock has its glam period, rap has its... well, I'm not sure what we can refer to it as. The rap today definitely isn't up to snuff with greats like Tupac or Run DMC... but they'll likely return to their roots, just as Rock did. Rock artists finally came to the realization that what made Rock great was not the glitzy glamor and fancy frills of the 80's (not to say there aren't a few legends that survived the 80's), but the raw pure sound that artists like Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix made famous, and artists like Nirvana brought back into the mainstream.

Rap needs a Kurt Cobain.

[AUChamps]

It just gets to me that kids like Soulja Boy(hey Mississippi, you guys ought to be REAL proud of that 8th grade dropout) and Hurricane Chris are Millionaires while hardworking musicans and others that may say they're not in it for the money but really should be deserving of the money aren't getting any(and aren't getting any in the other sense, example: Soulja Boy got some girl pregnant).

[nellanaesp]

Some of this stuff is kind of fun to listen to, but It gets old really fast. And why do they have to introduce themselves? It just adds 20 seconds to an otherwise useless song. Gah the misery. Im glad rock bands don't introduce themselves at the beginning of EVERY song.

[reese]

have yall heard that song "do the chevy"? it ranks right up there with 1 of the stupidest songs ive ever heard.

[GatorHunter]

These hip-hop groups are a dime a dozen. Sorta like country bands. I'm more of a metal and 80's guy myself.;)