There's still some real hip hop out there. It's not all that mainstream bullshit people see, you know. Check out Immortal Technique, Cunninlynguists, Jedi Mind Tricks, Tone Deff, Killah Priest, Pharoahe Monch, Gangstarr, De la Soul, Hieroglyphics, Masta Ace, Non Phixion, Sage Francis, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, The Fugees, Zion I, and a bunch of shit. There's some real shit out there, you just gotta dig. There's so much more I'm not even gonna take the time to list, but some of these peopel are lyrical masterminds pervarying all the messages of today in real ways and not his soulja boy crunk bullshit. That's what hip hop is about, sending out a message to people and getting them thinking in a way that they can relate to.