50 cent VS Kanye west

The loius Viton Don and the Teflon Don AKA kanye west and 50 cent have both released their albums on the 11 of September, with this being called the biggest battle in hip hop. I feel as though this industry has obviously gone beyond the Music and into a different spectrum altogether. Kanye and 50 are thought to be the "bread winners" of hip hop at the moment with the rap industry going into a decline due to dwindling sales. The Media's role in hyping up this event is spectacular. Often compared to the Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazer heavyweight fight, the marketing strategy for this even is to trash talk as much as possible (most of which has been done by the overly confident 50 cent). Its an inevitable occurrence, yet a sad one to see music and more specifically hip hop become all about the sales. With many articulate and socially aware artists such as Lupe fiasco being denied the same exposure, its very clear to see the slow and painful death of hip hop. lyrics such as "Im stanky rich, ima die tryin to spend this kid" - courtesy of 50 not only that hip hop is dead, but the possibility of reviving it has (in my mind) been destroyed. Although its good to hear that Kanye West is out selling 50.