I dont know about dying... I'm feelin what Dp gots to say... there are still hundreds of young kids coming up wit mad talent, they just have no direction in which to channel that talent.
Rush you right hip hop aint all about revolution anymore.. BECAUSE IT CANT BE, a revolution cant exist indefinitely that is destructive, revolution is a gateway to a change, it is just the means not the objective.
There will always be hip hop you dont like. EVERYDAY I hear music I dont like, BUT at least once a week i hear something I love, and thats good enuff, once a week good outweighs everyday bad, the good will last longer.
stagnation helps no one, that whole, "preserve what we see a s cla**ic at the expense of any forward motion" viewpoint held by too many heads only brings about the extinction of the art in total.
Blueprint, Illmatic, Resurrection, Criminal Minded, Shook Ones, Straight Outta Compton, Doggystyle, Full Clip...all these cla**ics hit us so hard cos they had SICK content, BUT ALSO cos they came at the time we needed them, if they dropped now, they wouldnt be as good, they would still be good but they wouldnt be AS good, we need new material, we need our kids', "Full Clip", "Illmatic" et al... it cant all happen at once.
Can I get a Soul CLap could be what yo kids see as the seminal work, or Ancient Men's "Food for Life" or Drudge Dialect Mixtape or OOtz ZCC Breaks.
Stop looking back at other people's lives for the key to YOUR best work, enjoy the nostalgia and the memories but if its your work it should coem from your life.
Do that and Hip HOP WIll live 4eva