IS HIP HOP DEAD?

Christ, I swear that is the title of every mainstream article on hip-hop...that or "Does Hip-Hop Make You Want To Shoot People and Sell Crack?". A genre can't fucking die it just evolves.

Anyway have a read of The Guardian's reasoning here in reaction to an article posted in The New Yorker here which was inevitably ripped apart by the rap-back-packers