Hip-hop is evolving - just ask its superstars
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Hip-hop has long been about superheroes, and there are few things more jarring than watching a superhero’s powers begin to fade. SHARE ADVERTISING Hip-hop has long been about superheroes, and there are few things more jarring than watching a superhero’s powers begin to fade. The superstars of earlier hip-hop generations typically lived their post-peak careers just out of the limelight. If they were grappling with diminished influence it rarely showed or shaped their public narrative. They disappeared into the executive suite (Dr. Dre), or they became actors (LL Cool J, Ice-T), or they settled in to a comfortable late-career plateau that mostly sated old fans while not really...