Is Longevity What It Used To Be?

Contributed by AdamBernard:

As I look at which artists are the most talked about in Hip-Hop right now I can’t help but notice that the list hasn’t really changed much over the past few years. T.I. has once again sold a ton of units in his first week despite, in my opinion, falling off considerably since ‘Trap Muzik’, which was a near classic, and ‘Urban Legend’, Fabolous is tearing up the charts with another big single and Kanye West has plenty of folks talking, though his own self-proclamations are usually the loudest. With the unarguably awful state of mainstream Hip-Hop I have to wonder; what’s their longevity actually worth? Read the full story at adambernard.blogspot.com.