Bros mic was smokin, great lyricism yall, the rewind hit the home run then the FF won the world series!!! This poem is true, yes hip hop is personal to me cuz it was with me through thick an thin through my life an now its gone.....

I still enjoy this play. Sick. Keep Hip Hop Alive. One, Maka

That was deep and truthful. Hip Hop is Dead. I so miss old school. It needs to be revived.

back when all hip-hop artists had a message to say and not just the means to say it. modern rap has new technology - autotone, better synthesizers, sound-insulated studios, etc. But when you take the frills out, and all that remains is a voice, a microphone, and a stage, it's amazing how much more memorable this performance is in comparison to mainstream. Amen

brian's actually one of the best lyricists i've heard..damn.

I LIKE THAT "Hip-Hop ain't dead... It's infected with a disease.." THATS A GOOD WAY TO EXPLAIN IT

THEY DID THEY THING !!! && He Is FINNNNNEEE !!!

That was off tha chain// i neva heard poetry b n spit like dat// FIYA!!!

dis is dope i cried da day hip hop died and i hope one day hip hop will come back

I was in the audience when this was performed I remember feelin mad inspired and goin home to write my first slam poem

I believe rappers like PAC& Biggie started the hip hop game& other rappers like Kendrick Lamar,Drake,& J Cole are elevating it. True,back in the day,they started the whole hip hop era but we still have decent artist. Hip Hop ain't completely dead,it's just lost and needs to be found.

Very Impressive Yo Somebody Give Em A Record Label they could be the next set Of Legends.

man these kids are tight!!!! MOVING!

GET THIS KID A RECORD DEAL!

Beautiful...this is great i love watching poetry about this

Hip hop is personal, to some ppl, it is dead, to me it is very much still alive and i will dig it till i drop. Hip hop for life. Nice poem though.

this shit is absolutely incredible, major major props

Yo they performed this on def poetry and KILLED it.

Still amazing

This is beyond incredible. Quickly added to my favorites. Business thoughts already flowing through my mind... I will contact you directly. One, Makadoutious

This is what Hip Hop should be from the core, Maintream(Soulja Boy, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, etc.)infected Hip-Hop. This piece is DOPE AND CLEVER, and actually had hard work put into it. This is Hip-Hop, not rap. That's the difference.

These 2 cats have talent and I wish they had more stuff...

THIS IS SICK OMG! TOO GOOD TO EVEN SAY

i love this...yo it's soo real like!!!

that was one of the hardest poems ever

hip hop aint dead its just being suppressed and exploited by some phonies ppl make real hip hop everyday...hip hop is immortal how can it die

This is some DOPE shit right here.

for real. the truth be told. let the ears behold.

murdered dat shit Str8 mad koo str8 mad honesty yo

after all those positive comments i feel kinda bad saying i wasn't feelin that. we all got our tastes, i was feeling the piece shared by Steve Connell & Sekou the Misfit on def poetry way more.

Amazing. Does anyone know what Brian was saying just before and after his rewind? I can't hear that part clearly, but the few words I did catch were amazing.

yall better get it thats hot!!!!

Yooo! That's wassup! Very original.

dat was hot ass hell son that dat shit right there

THe sad thing is while there are certain artists whose music I don't really like and who I don't listen to, most people don't care. There are artists that I'm sure fit into the same categories that I listen to some of their songs because I like the beat or I like dancing to them. I don't really like the songs where the lyrics get to the point of being offensive or sexist. I think its sad where Hip hop is right now and I wish the artists right now who have alot of influence would take a stand.

AWESOME!

we need to be hearing more shit like this shit!

Sciryl is sick!! Peep his music though!!

That was good as hell

I hate it when ppl say hip hop is dead. It is not dead it is overshadowed by rap. All the bullshit artists like soulja boy and waka flocka are not hip hop, they are main stream rap. All the hip hop artists are still making music they just aren't played on the radio and the record labels shun them bc they aren't doing what they tell them. Hip Hop isn't dead, people just don't know how to find it.

anybody know the youtube link for this when they did it on def poetry jam

wow...mad skills

He Said "guys lyin see hip hop is dyin inside"

Yeah this was sick in def jam poetry

Real Talk!!!!

What is the name of the def poetry one on KZfaq?

seriously all the people speaking negatively about Wayne are crazy, mainly because nearly all of their opposition is some nostalgic comparison. hip hop has moved on from the "old school" and the "new school" is trying to get off the ground, but it never will if people keep trying to say how it isn't better or as good as old shit. i understand you have to respect the pioneers but damn.. embrace new styles. there will never be a new old school only a new new school. get used to it.

GOT DAMN!

i loved it..das some real shit

Awe inspiring

oh snap.

OOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

This was at Irving wasn't it?

@moeflowzdeep EXACTLY!

FRESH!!!

gooooooooood damm IF THAT WASNT THAT ABSOLUTE HOTTEST SHIT I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIT I WISH I WAS THERE 2 C DEM!!!!

i have to warn you i'm new to hip hop and rap and such(not new to slam however) one this poem is awsome just in the way they wrote it making it sounds like a cd or somethin. but i do think that old school hip hop should be revived. I also the maistreamers(lil wayne, chris Brown, and most of the others.) have a talent maybe it shouldn't be called hip hop but they have something... personal opinion.

jeeez dats sikk...i write poetry but i wud luv to improve and be juss as effective

dope

Are these the same people from the def poetry one ?

sciryl and riva def jam poetry

@PandyMilton em warned us about the impact

R.I.P. Hip-Hop for now. I think that in about 10 years people will relize how stupid YoungMoney is and we will have real, good Hip-Hop again. Either that or it would just get worse (I don't see how that could happen but I'm sure it could) I sure hope we can get some more good, true rappers so they can bring back my favorite type of misic. For now I'll just listen to the old stuff

yeah his ghost writer is really dope. he still a suspect in the murder crime of hip hop.

@flash5567 james brown n mj hv nothing to do with hip hop when u think hip hop think biggy smallz..tupac... naz...dr dre ( when he was makin real music) ....napolean..jay z is the only 1 tryna keep it real n he's slackin too

All ya bitches out there sayin hip hop havent died we ain't talkin bout wen those REAL good hip hoppers was bac in the day like 2poc n biggie now a days it's like okay but u come from back in the day,u missed everything So don't say hip hop didnt die cuz it did

please dont dis lil wayne he is sikkkkkkkkk

What does she say about eminem?

same people he referres to her as erica/riva in the other def jam vid.

Hot!

hot, hip hop has truly died, nobody talks about the truth and things in the world nowadays because people rap about trash nowadays

Hip Hop didnt die people......your just looking in the wrong places, if your looking at mainstream, then yea it did, minus a few rappers tryin to hold it down, problem is nobody buys there albums....check the underground scene....this poem in itself is a testiment that it didnt die....do you think these are the only two people out here writing about this??? The industry killed mainstream hiphop....

Whoa!!!!!!! :0 *blackfist*

dey sound juz lyke scryil nd riva

@naturallydommi010 I know for a fact that hip hop ain't dead untill I am

I don't feel like it has completely died, but i agree a majority of the artists nowadays are pretty garbage (Along with this whole autotune trend) but in my opinion I still think Eminem, Lupe Fiasco (Sometimes), and a few other artists are true hip hop.

i agree i usualy only listin to hip hop now that they got all these meanigless rap like bottomes up trully hip hop died

'This is soo True Big ups to whoever put this piece together...Hip Hop is Dead..."The New Hip-Hop" or as I call it "Rap Crap" being fueled by Young Money is pointless. Its just a couple of punch lines and disses. I never knew when this became a type of art? SMH anyway Hip Hop is dead

@naturallydommi010 i dont want to get in an rap arguement but if you go back maybe there wasnt as much sex but they definately bragged alot and it wasnt all dat deep

HipHop is dead because, sure we still have great artists like Eminem and SlaughterHouse, but no one sees the good rappers any more, they just listen to radio rap.The fans killed hip hop.The fans and the money, all anybody wants these days is money so they write garbage songs bout whatever the people gonna like so they can get on the radio.The fans,the money and the radio,if nobody wanted their fans to like them so they could get on the radio so they could get money they would rap from their soul

someone tell me is hip hop the same as rap because rap is still alive hip hop yeah i think it might of died

They need to come out with a new music genre so they can stop putting all this crap in hip hop. real talk.

For the most part, I agree with y'all. But come on, hatin on Lil' Wayne is straight silly. That nigga's wordplay is off the hook.

naw he dont

lol..why is he gonna die soon?

listen the music is fine and i mean from a club perspective but the artist are garbage. no talent. no lyrics or anything and if thats what the kids want hey thats all fine and dandy but just because he's dressing the part doesn't make it hip hop.

tu-pac biggie,big l arent hip-hop.. dats rap.. dAASTS LIKE KALLING LIL WAYNE HIP-HOP WHEN HE IS POP MUSIC..

dope