has hip hop/rap gotten worse or better over the years?
worse well at least main stream hip hop is bad, there's still some good stuff going if your willing to look for it. modern main stream hiphop has just become a creative grave yard with everyone doing the same shit over and over again. admittly it's gotten a little bit better with some rappers actually rapping about feelings and not just oh look at my money.if you want to hear some great older stuff wu tang clan, nwa, tupac, biggie, a tribe called quest are all great.
i have listened to macklemore's entire discography, and he may be the best rapper since his debut in 2005. 

i guess it's just that people want poppy stuff. only thrift shop is a poppy song by him. it's sad, macklemore is an amazing artist but people won't listen past thrift shop... it's better ghostface killah.

rakim got ghost beat in rhyme schemes, overall lyrical skill, flow and delivery, but ghost exceeds rakim in everything else. and even in categories that rakim is better than tony starks in, ghost is not that far off. as a matter of fact, i think you could make a case for ghost being a better lyricist. 

but for me, ghost is the better rapper. anything rock n roll!!the heavier the better!! 01 Nas - Illmatic   

02 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back   

03 Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full   

04 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)   

05 The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die   

06 Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx   

07 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory   

08 N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton   

09 Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded   

10 Dr. Dre - The Chronic   

(that's the top 10) But I wish I Could of added of added   

  

 Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell   

 2Pac - Me Against the World   

 Ice Cube - Death Certificate   

 Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt   

 OutKast Aquemini   

 Snoop Dogg Doggystyle   

 I Couldn't Forget Main Source Breaking Atoms *Does someone mind telling me why the hell this album is out of print?? Breaking Atoms is a long forgotten classic. Because of this, I never knew that Large Professor was this nice on the mic. ****, I never even knew he rapped before this album. The rhymes are ahead of their time and the beats are even further ahead of their time. Scratch's and Kut's DJing is the perfect icing for Large Professor's beats. "Just a Friendly Game of Baseball" is one of the best songs ever. Using baseball metaphors to describe police brutality was perfect and sounds like something Nas would do. Speaking of Nas, "Live at the Barbeque" was one of hip-hop's most epic posse cuts ever. This long forgotten album deserves its place in the vaults of great hip-hop* someday is good. guitar town was the hit single I don`t know why they feel that way.   

  

The 90`s had some of the best compition in any era.More than now,or 60-8`s.They had some of the craziest teams to play with,John stockton and karl malone`s jazz.Isiah thomas`s pistons.Reggie millers pacers.Magic`s lakers.Birds heat.The orlando magic.   

  

They just find it hard to believe that some guy is the GOAT and there favorite player is not good as that player.Witch he is,Everyone need a good team,Kobe lebron is chasing one,so why only bash micheal jordan for that and none of the other teams?There being indenial the he isnt good.'   

  

I mean just look at some of this defence he had to play against,hand checking and what now [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJJNUkrd...](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJJNUkrdyQ) it was very phiscal defence back than,20 times harder to score on the defence.   

  

Not only being defended they had to gaurd some of the best players,and hardest to gaurd   

tockton, Larry Jhonson, Allan Houston, Reggie Miller, Bernard King, Magic johnson, Adrian Dantley, Kevin Johnson,larry bird:all very hard to gaurd and great scorers   

  

So the COMPITION is severly underated beck in the 90`s for it is harder than now,or before,perhaps the hardest eras of them all,im a youngster,but i understand the facts unlike the rest of the people who dont. * however, the quality of the roads is a far cry from the silky smooth expressways that you’ll glide across in singapore. a poor road system combined with a growing middle class who own an increasing amount of vehicles per household can quickly lead to crushing congestion problems. as traffic slows to a crawl, it’s not just the commuters that suffer. i miss the ngage. current phone games suck. i would definitely listen to a remix of exile, and maybe i can read mick's mind because very few stones fans, other than me, don't have exile high on their list of their greatest albums

and i definitely agree that exile is more of an experience...when you think about it, what major hits were spawned from that album? there are none really, not to say that there aren't any good songs, but none of the singles were major successes of their own right...also, i think the content and style of the songs contributes to this as well, a song like let it loose, which is imo the best song on the album, does not play too well as a radio hit