 What's hip hop today could easily become passe. Arguing with hip hop about the nature of hip hop is like arguing with water about the nature of wetness. Like Bunny Wailer said, some things come to you, some things come at you, but hip hop, it flows right through you. Hip hop is so far gone up its own, you can't even speak on it unless you follow the trail of hip hop's intestines out the lower end. Hip hop is the rattlesnake that bit off its own tail, then listened to the death rattle warning the head that it was swallowing up the body.