[Submitted by emphasis on August 15, 2007, 11:04 pm]
Who killed hip hop? - (part 1) The Roots
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(In this first session, I address defining the culture that has been so misunderstood by going back to the beginning - and looking briefly at its evolution)
Was it Emo? Was it Bling? Was it the phrase "Keep it Real" had become so, well, unreal? Was it just that the culture had lost it's essence trying to do too many other things? Was it Akon, Fergie and Gwen Stefani? Or does it just live in the South now? In any case, the genre and culture once personified by Common (Sense) in "I Used to Love HER" is now being described by Nas as being dead.