Originally Posted by Skaligojurah

Hip hop tends to be too specific on aesthetic aspects I think to grow too much. Albeit, I think it's integration into, and effect on other genres is amazing. I suppose the best thing for hip hop is if that it could return to being more experimental. One of the great things of hip hop is you can't really define what makes it instrumentally since it's mostly samples.

Therefore, Hip Hop could theoretically anything that utilizes mostly upbeat spoken word poetry. I wish hip-hop artists try something else other than the generic thumpy-thump bass grooves, and songs about asses, crack, and guns. I mean, a lot are, and it's wonderful, but it's not really getting as much exposure as it should.