A kung fu fighter in a disco

But hip-hop for so long was seen (at least by me) as the engine, the forward motion, of a whole hunk of modern music, and when r&b was really coming across as contemporary it was hitching itself to hip-hop. I don't know. That last statement is an exaggeration, and maybe Destiny's Child was considered as contemporary as anything. But now it feels as if to hit, hip-hop has to hitch itself to r&b. This doesn't mean that there are no interesting directions in hip-hop, just that hip-hop doesn't seem nearly as dominant. Another interesting trend is some material that's clearly r&b (JoJo, Rihanna) doing better on the Top 40 stations than on the hip-hop/r&b stations.