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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.
"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 .
Nas then signed to Def Jam Recordings Def Jam label in 2006 and debuted on Def Jam with Hip Hop Is Dead, his third album to reach number 1 on the American Billboard 200 album chart. [5] In 2008, Nas released an untitled album that he controversially almost titled Nigger.
Hip-hop and the people who support the industry have long used the harm and violence enacted on Black women as a way to promote their newest song for attention-grabbing headlines. But in the ...
Northwest rap label NastyMix was a hip-hop hit machine. Sir Mix-A-Lot’s early singles, “Posse on Broadway,” “Iron Man,” and “My Hooptie” were on MTV, BET, radio, and the charts.
Hip hop artists have a higher rate of homicide than artists of any other genre of music, ranging from five to 32 times higher. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some reasons cited for the high homicide rate include poor background of many artists, criminal gang activity, drug use, and inadequate pastoral care among artists and record labels.
OPINION: As Drake continues to receive backlash for his new album, 'Honestly, Nevermind,' theGrio examines the history of rap music and house music coming together and whether hip hop is in danger ...
7.11 Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead. 8 2007. Toggle 2007 subsection. 8.1 Freedom Writers Original Soundtrack. 8.2 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Strength & Loyalty. 8.3 Macy Gray - Big.