Ladies, please help Conflict come to terms with his homosexuality

Hip hop is an art form like no other. Territorial, judgemental, beautiful, thought provoking, and fun are a few words to describe the genre. Is hip hop dead? Just the same way we ask that question in 2015, that same question was asked in 1988. It actually should be a new golden age in hip hop as we speak. Never before in the history of the genre have we had access to damn near every single artist out there. We as consumers choose what we want to hear. The radio no longer dictates who and what is hot. Videos are a dead art form thanks to digital streaming. It is because of this new era that an artist can make any kind of music he wants to and still have fans, as long as he's dope. Look at the artists on your playlist and tell me which ones are household names. The radio generation is dead. Look at cities like Houston and Oakland. Cities who's underground rappers thrived without radio or video play nationally. Lil Flip sold a million records underground. So did E-40. Rappers that earned their respect in the game without the machine, but most importantly, became rich without it too. Underground rock bands don't do that. Hip hop is far from dead. It's thriving. Dead genres don't get recreated in different regions. Dead genres don't influence popular culture. Dead genres aren't making kids legal money without having to sell drugs or worse. Stop judging hip hop by what's on the radio. Especially in today's age when your favorite artist, mainstream or underground, is just a click away.