Is hip-hop dead? Even if you don’t feel that Nas has the album of the year, he has the most controversial LP title of the year in Hip Hip Is Dead … The N. No debating that. Some people are agreeing with Nas’ provocative statement while others say he is dead wrong. Especially MCs from the South.

Luda says saying hip-hop is dead is basically "dissin’ the South."

"Because the South is dominating it right now," Cris further explained. "Saying that hip-hop is dead is like saying the South is dead too. They may not like some of the music going on in the South. But everybody in the South is saying, ‘We are keeping it alive.’ … At the end of the day, hip-hop is what you make it. What we do in the South isn’t hip-hop — that’s what some people think. We think it is. Some people say it’s country-rap tunes. Hip-hop is what you make it."

"Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but if it’s dead, why is the South boomin’?" Big Boi wondered, sounding as if he were siding with ‘Cris before getting a little sidetracked. "We got the ball right now. … But nobody better never come out their mouth wrong about me or my homeboy [Andre 3000] ever. Ever! Tell them. We don’t even play. I’ll slap the sh– out of you. That’s why you never hear about Outkast getting into nothing.

"But everybody is entitled to their own opinion," he repeated. "Some people take offense to certain things. If you know you that n—a on the mic and know what you do … sh–, Dre 3000 said hip-hop was dead how many years ago? It’s whatever it meant to him. It wasn’t exciting him. Everybody got their own opinion. But we f— with Nas. If he meant it in a disrespectful way, that’ll get dealt with too."

For the record, Nas has never said that hip-hop was dead because the South was blowing up. Nas actually has a house in Georgia and says he has love for his cousins in the dirty.

"A lot of them should know I’m deeper than singling out one place," Nas said last week while on Hot 97 talking to Miss Jones and DJ Envy.

He explained that he called hip-hop deceased because it’s lacking creativity and beef is too prevalent. "We’re monkeying around, scrambling for attention," Nas said.

But elsewhere on the Hip Hop Is Dead LP, Nas actually takes the polar opposite stance. "Hope" includes the lyric "Hip-hop will never die."

"It ain’t got nothing to do with old school, new school, Dirty South, West Coast, East Coast — it’s about us," he said. "I say what I say and I mean it. Y’all take it how you wanna take it. If you asking why hip-hop dead, it’s a pretty good chance your lame ass, corny ass is the reason it died."

Source: MTV News

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