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Is Hip-Hop Finally Dead?

Is Hip-Hop Finally Dead? ^ It is to this guy. In the latest issue of The New Yorker Sasha Frere-Jones has declared 2009 as the year Hip-Hop died. His main reasons? The Blueprint 3 , Raekwon & Freddie Gibbs of course. If I had to pick a year for hip-hop's demise, though, I would choose 2009, not 2006. Jay-Z's new album, "The Blueprint 3," and some self-released mixtapes by Freddie Gibbs are demonstrating, in almost opposite ways, that hip-hop is no longer the avant-garde, or even the timekeeper, for [...]
Artist:The New Yorker
Title:Is Hip-Hop Dead?
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