Hip Hop music during 2000s.

1. Hip Hop music during 2000s.

2. Hip hop dominated popular music in the early 2000s Artists such as Eminem,50 Cent,The Black Eyed Peas,T.I.,KanyeWest,Nelly,Nas, Jay-Z,SnoopDog,LilWayne,The Game and Ludacris were among the dominant mainstream hip hop artists to have represented the Hip hop genre for the decade. Distinct regional differences also developed outside of the hip hop/rap strongholds of the 1990s, New York City and Los Angeles. Though the Los Angeles style of the 1990s wanes,Gangsta Rap continues to be popular through the 2000s, and more commercially oriented party rap dominates the charts. The emergence of hip-hop from the south and the midwest was starting to take place, and by the end of the decade, hip-hop was starting to spread internationally.

3. During the 2000s Eminem, who is perhaps best known for being one of the few successful white rappers in the music industry, enjoyed a massive commercial success and maintained commercial relevance by attempting to be controversial and subversive. According to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s. After the release of his album,Relapse, Eminem became the best selling rapper of all time and the top selling artist of the decade across all genres."Ringtone rap", which is rap music that was made popular for ringtones, which includes more "laid back" and "silly" elements along with repetitive hooks, became very popular in the later part of the 2000s.

4. Alternative Hip-Hop, almost unknown in the mainstream, except for a few crossover acts, evolved throughout the decade with the help of artists such as MosDef, The Roots, Atmosphere, Aesop Rock and Common, who achieved unheard-of success for their field. Throughout the 2000s, Alternative Hip hop continued its philosophical, positive, and complex lyrical subject matter, while denouncing materialism, fashion, and money. This sub-genre also includes spoken word and a branch of slam poetry. The sub-genre could be said to be related to both the old school hip-hop culture of the 1980s and 1990s, and the indie rock and hipster subcultures.

5. By 1999, more 2000s styled glam started coming in, along with dirty south and crank, with artists such as Lil John, Ludacris, Three 6 Mafia, Neptunes, Timbaland and Jay-Z

6. Auto-tune became popular by mid 2007, with hip-hop artist T-pain starting the craze. Auto-Tune was popular in the earlier part of the decade as well (primarily in 2000 and 2001), but then only called "synthesizer" and it was used casually as just an effect than a major replacement of the standard human voice. Artists such as Daft Punk, Eiffel 65, 98 Degrees, Willa Ford, and even Faith Hill have used Auto-Tune in their songs. It was first known as the "Cher effect" since it was used in the song "Believe" by Cher in 1998. The Black Eyed Peas began utilizing Auto-Tune and electropop-dancing in their most successful album to date, The E.N.D., which spawned five top ten hit singles: "Boom Boom Pow", "I Gotta Feeling", "Meet me Halfawy", "Imma Be", and "Rock that body". Due to hip hop's increased moulding with pop music, some, such as rapper Nas have declared the death of the genre.

7. Defining Hip Hop Culture • Too many people are unclear as to what Hip Hop Culture really is and tend to use the term frivolously. Hip Hop Culture is commonly recognised by its main elements: Graffiti, Djing, Breakdancing, Rapping, and Beatboxing.  However, these elements are simply forms of art designed to express a deeper meaning.  At its core, Hip Hop is so much more than mere art and entertainment.  Hip Hop is the constantly evolving spirit and consciousness of urban youth that keeps recreating itself in a never-ending cycle.  It is joy, sorrow, pleasure, pain, victory, defeat, anger, happiness, confusion, clarity, humour, intensity, dream, nightmare, life, death, and everything else in between.  It is the spirit that connects the past to the present and lays a path towards the future.  The spirit of Hip Hop is the same as Jazz, Reggae, Blues, Doo-wop, Be-bop, and a multitude of other types of expressions, be it musical or otherwise, that African people throughout the Diaspora have given birth to and introduced to the world.  That very spirit is what breathes life into a simple idea and transforms it into a living cultural movement.  Hip Hop Culture cannot be assimilated, integrated, diluted, watered-down, sold for profit, or pimped.  It will always exist, in this incarnation or another. What the mainstream promotes as Hip Hop is only a commercial product misleading you into believing that it represents Hip Hop in its totality.