Shout out to Korea

Mike, i'm curious which Nas song is that line from? Because you're right it is not bad. I need to be careful here because i'm not argueing that Weezy is a better rapper then Nas, I'm argueing that RIGHT NOW I think he's the more interesting artist. I think there is a lot more going on in his music top to bottom. I also think what he's done in terms of releasing a steady stream of music for free online is interesting. I just generally think that the music on the whole is more appealing.

I would argue about the status of hip-hop in general because while it may be that great mainstream hip-hop is in "steady decline" as you put it, I don't think we're comparing apples and apples. Music generally is a great deal more diffuse then it was in the mid-ninties.

Hootie and the Blowfish sold like 10 million albums, you are NEVER going to see that again. Also, I would hardly have called The Roots in 1994 mainstream hip-hop. In fact other then Biggie none of those guys were mainstream at that point. Now, that is a function of the fact that almost no rap besides Will Smith and Vanilla Ice was mainstream at that point, which is just further to my point about us living in different era's.

I like "Hip-Hop is Dead" better then anything he did since "Illmatic" but I just think we are listening for different things.