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Hip Hop Is Dead is the eighth studio album by American rapper Nas, released December 19, 2006, on Def Jam Recordings. His first album for the label, it was co-financed by Nas's previous label, Columbia Records, which once distributed for Def Jam. The album's title was inspired by Nas's view of the music industry and the state of hip hop music ...
Music video. "Hip Hop Is Dead" on YouTube. " Hip Hop Is Dead " is the first and title single taken from Nas ' 2006 album of the same name. It is produced by and features will.i.am. It peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, [1] as well as number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. On December 31, 2007, the music video for ...
This is a list of notable rappers and hip hop musicians murdered since 1987. Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that murder was the cause of half of hip hop musician deaths. The average age of death is between 25–30 years of age. Hip hop artists have a higher rate of homicide than artists of any other genre of music, ranging from five to ...
Tentatively called Hip Hop Is Dead...The N, Hip Hop Is Dead was a commentary on the state of hip-hop and featured "Black Republican", a hyped collaboration with Jay-Z. The album debuted on Def Jam and Nas new imprint at that label, The Jones Experience, at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts, selling 355,000 copies—Nas's third number one album ...
For me, the greatest album in hip-hop history remains “ De La Soul Is Dead ,” the group’s legendary sophomore album from 1991. As I said in my piece about “ Off the Wall” vs “Thriller ...
Horrorcore. Horrorcore, also called horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, death rap, or murder rap is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror -themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from certain hardcore hip hop and gangsta rap artists, such as the Geto Boys and Three 6 Mafia, which began ...
The Ummah. James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), [6] [7] better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer and rapper. He emerged during the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan, as a member of the group Slum Village. He was also a member of the Soulquarians, a ...
Questlove suggesting that ‘hip hop is truly dead’ because of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef is a nonsensically wild take Country music pioneer Alice Randall gets to the roots of the genre ...