In my senior year of college - when I was still heavy into hip hop production, a buddy of mine, B-Sides (or, more familiarly, Brendan), passed along an MP3 to me excited over the crisp drum break that occurred midway through the...

Nasir Jones, aka Nas, or, to those of us unwilling to let go of the past, Nasty Nas, may have actually been right. Hip Hop, the music that most of the dot-com generation has grown up with, might very well be dying -- if it's not already dead. Why? Well...