Hip-Hop: Better or Worse?

Ýt's getting worse.When Eminem is gone:

''When Ý die so does Hip-Hop''

When Eminem left.. it got worse and worse. We got Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Drake, etc etc.

After 2010, hiphop is getting better again. 50 is back, and fuck his recent shit is awesome, we got Kendrick Lamar, who is a real motherfucker, Em is getting better too. We got Yela, etc.

Mainstream artists are less lyrical, less complex today, but more catchy and marketable.
Underground artists are much better, a lot of them are insanely great lyricists.

I wish more of the amazingly good underground artists like The Jokerr, Hopsin, Gho5t, Oh See Dee, K-Holla, SevidemiC, and myself (if that's not too cocky to put myself on this list), among others, could get recognized as a valid contender in the rap game, independent or otherwise.

it has gotten better , the 80's and 90's artists weren't lyrically and technically complex except G Rap , Wu Tang , Rakim , Mobb Depp Nas and Kane but the artists now would shit on them . Kendrick Lamar , Yelawolf , Slaughterhouse , Danny Brown , Big Krit , Action Bronson , Joey Badass , Ab Soul , Pro era , Mayday , Rittz , Eminem , Jay Z plus the rap beasts underground are all more complex than the golden age hip hop artists that it's almost ridiculous how people can say hip hop is dead now . Kendrick Lamar , Joey , Ab Soul , Talib Kweli do the same conscious rap that Pac did but are 100x more lyrical than pac was . Then you've got the weed rappers like SchoolBoy Q who will stomp any older artist in the same category . The southern rappers don't make the same bouncy pimp shit anymore Yelawolf , Krit and Rittz are putting the south back on the map . As for the Hype artists well even old school hip hop had hype artists but the hype artists now get more radioplay which is not their fault . Overall New school >> Old school.

However, I think hip hop has gotten better in the last few years. It seemed to be dying from 2006-2010 ish. But now you have people coming out like Kendrick, Big Krit, Yelawolf, Ab Soul and a bunch of other guys getting mainstream attention. Plus you still have a few heavyweights hanging around and mentoring the younger guys. I think we're kind of breaking out of a dark ages for hip hop. In 5-10 years saying hip hop is dead will be a thing of the past.

U cant really say it got worse, its just different. Its like u cant compare 90s to 00s,
and 00s to nowdays, for me i like 97-07 era, everyone was different (eminem, dmx, xzibit, 50, game, d12, busta, proof). Thats why i dont like all this new rapers coming they ( besides slaughterhouse, b.o.b, kendrick) all the same, even sound alike.

I'm not saying todays artist are bad but when the likes of Eminem, Dr. Dre, Obie Trice are gone, what are we left with?