If push comes to shove i would have to sya that my favourite genre of music is hip hop. I love it all from the horrible (Ron Browsz, Mc Hammer and Young MC) to the amazing (Big Pun, MF Doom, Jay-z, Nas and Biggie).
That's why it is so sad to see it crumble around us. Not only due to no one buying records anymore but through it's excess. Future generations will see it captured in music videos but that will never tell the full story.
Here are two examples of the once glorious genre ended up on it's death bed.