>why did you write this song?
>this "Hip-Hop is dead" concept is getting real played out real
>fast.
>its obvious hip-hop is dead but us hiphop heads need to move
>on and quit beating a dead horse.
>right now people want to hear mainstream mindless club music.
>shit you see timbaland produced "promicious" a club song it
>single handedly made Nelly Furtado comeback hugeeeeeeeeee.
>
>Nas can do "hip-hop is dead" album it won't change peoples
>mind UNLESS i repeat UNLESS Nas as a song he plans on using as
>a "SINGLE" that explains this "Hip-Hop is dead" concept which
>i hope he does i believe Rakim said the same thing in his most
>recent interview.


uh...i think that's why the song has the word "DIED" in it, and not "DEAD".