"The Bridge is Over." "No Vaseline." "Hit 'Em Up." "Ether."
And now this. And this. And this. And so on.
Instead of channeling their rage into rhymes, emcees these days have found it much easier to just record a short video, put it on YouTube and let the Interweb spread their names like wildfire. Imagination not required.
Slate's Hua Hsu thinks hip-hop is worse off for it, and we couldn't agree more. Click below for his slide show on the topic.
[How YouTube is ruining the hip-hop beef.]