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Nas is hip-hop's "grumpiest man", according to Jody Rosen for Entertainment Weekly, and the album "is a lot like Nas himself: impossible not to admire, but hard to love". [28] Among those music writers and critics that reviewed Hip Hop Is Dead favorably was Jason Rubin of The A.V. Club, which gave the album an A−
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 "Hip Hop Is Dead" appeared at number 93 on BET's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2007 countdown, even though the video was released in December 2006.
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.
This was similar to attempts to name his 2006 album, eventually titled Hip Hop Is Dead, to both Nigga and Hip Hop Is Dead... The N . On May 19, 2008, it was confirmed that Nas changed the name of the album to an untitled one (although on the iTunes Store , the album is self-titled ), stating that "the people will always know what the real title ...
In “Blame It on Hip-Hop: Anti-Rap Attitudes as a Proxy for Prejudice,” Christine Reyna and Mark Brandt showed how negative viewpoints about rap were closely associated with negative ...
The signs of hip-hop’s influence are everywhere — from Pharrell Williams becoming Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director to billion-dollar brands like Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones and ...
Other hip-hop albums dug deep into the challenges of living around the drug game and dealing with the police, but on “Dead” De La went into a whole different set of challenges. In one song ...
Hip-hop fans and outlets alike speculated Drake's verse on the remix was a diss targeted towards Lamar. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The same day, Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith and Punch (both key figures at Lamar's record label Top Dawg Entertainment ) posted responses on Twitter to Drake's verse disregarding the supposed disses. [ 19 ]