i can tell you right now this topic could be problem matic.
depends how you look at it though if you mean what they started in the bronx the idea of hip hop 4 elements and all yeah. hip hop is mostly dead. i mean they have said for years that graffitti is dead. graff being the 1st element and all if your liver quits working you die but then again maybe its a lung or a kidney. as far as music goes it has gotten worse over the years their are still good artist out there but these people doing it for hip hop and the uplift of the hip hop people and culture not so much anymore.
hip hop is not dead in me though quoted from the RZA "if you are hip hop than you doing everything hip hop eat, walk, talk, sh!t, fu@k"