How do you think the years of 1996 and 1997 affect the hip hop culture and music!

How do you think the years of 1996 and 1997 affect the hip hop culture and music?

These were the years that Tupac and Biggie past away, respectively.

For those that grew up listening to hip-hop in the 80s and the 90s, we can recall that the early to mid-90s were a time of drastic change in the hip hop culture & industry. The music was changing from thought provoking to club-banging, jiggy music (I have nothing against dancing, but...). The music was changing from many MCs being original to many MCs being carbon-copies. The music was changing from thought-provoking to tracks that could be produced with no-thought. Even the gangsta music back then at least told a story that the society could learn from and groove to (i.e. N.W.A, Dre, Snoop, D.O.C., etc.). I'm not going to even begin to name the number of groups and solo artists that emerged during the mid 80s to the mid 90s that had a lasting impact on hip-hop (i.e. Rakim, ATCQ, Wu-Tang, Busta, etc.). It seems that the events of 1996-1997 marked a big split in the hip-hop time-line. What do u think?

well personally i think thats when rap started to get really bad not bcuz 2pac and biggy died but bcuz people started recording terrible music i think it split in 1995 when eazy-e died though