Listening to some 90s hip hop.
To me hip hop died in the 90s or mid 00s
Nowadays Rappers and Singers are pathetic.
I am taking a history of Rock and Roll music class and I can see some parallels to how Rock has been. Every time a new music genre is formed, it is seen as a sense of rebellion, trying something new. Then eventually, once it grows, it is packaged, commercialized, and may grow, but is modified to be "less threatening." Then people become disenfranchised with what the music has become, go to a new one, and the cycle repeats.