hip-hop is dead....

Recently there has been a video floating around called 'Mic Check - The Idiocy of Mumble Rappers' by Team Back Pack. The video goes on to explain some important facts about hip-hop such as; hip hop started in 1973 (which is a year not a day, but who am I to be a stickler for facts.) or that the Father of Hip-Hop is DJ Cool Herc. But one very big fallacy that the video states is that artist like Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi Vert are not MCs, in the sense that they do not spit hot 16 bars or complicated multi-syllable rhymes that took hours to think of. But why does this type of music get such a bad rap from the hip-hop community?

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