All music is going to age and sound old one day... no matter how fresh and new it sounds when it comes out. But in every era, there has always been music that you could even feel at the time was gonna run its course sooner than later. There's a lot of music, even songs that were hits, that fizzled out fast for this same reason- some shyt was very in-the-moment, and soon as that moment or sound was done, nobody wanted to hear it anymore. But there's also music that capture those eras, and for that reason have lived a longer shelf life- not just because they were hits, but because they actually resonated and lasted even during those eras. Even back in the late-90s, there were records from the earlier part of the decade and the late-80s that hadn't fallen out of rotation yet. Anytime you went to a party or heard DJs on the radio, you could expect to hear those songs because they didn't play out fast. On the other hand, there was also songs that ran for all of a couple months and probably were never coming back. Even today, you don't hear them in no old school set, you don't hear them at throwback parties- them shyts are GONE 
Someone in the thread said there's stuff from like 20 years ago that has aged even worse than music that came out decades prior, and I agree. There was a time period in early-2000s when everybody was keyboarding it up but just making super-mediocre beats attempting to ride the Ruff Ryder wave. A few years back, I found a Youtube account that uploaded a lot of circa-2000-2002 Clue tapes and a fair amount of that shyt sounded disgusting Same applies for the late-00s ringtone era and all the mediocrity that came out of that... and also there were a lotta hit songs in the middle of the 10s that are less than 10 years old and are DEAD already. shyt like "Milly Rock" and "Flicka Da Wrist"- maybe one day they'll come back around but right now, they make 2016 sound like it was looooong ago.
But back to the main point, everything gets old, sometimes that's the dope part about it. It reminds you of how it was at the time and what that music represented in that era. Aging isn't a bad thing in hip-hop, especially if you can hear it in hindsight and totally get why it was so great at the time. I can listen to something like "I Ain't No Joke" or "Raw" and understand exactly why Rakim and Kane were some bad MFs in '87. And obviously, it's from that time but that doesn't take away from it. But there's also stuff from that time that came and went much faster because it wasn't for the long haul. This applies to just about any era we can go to.
Someone in the thread said there's stuff from like 20 years ago that has aged even worse than music that came out decades prior, and I agree. There was a time period in early-2000s when everybody was keyboarding it up but just making super-mediocre beats attempting to ride the Ruff Ryder wave. A few years back, I found a Youtube account that uploaded a lot of circa-2000-2002 Clue tapes and a fair amount of that shyt sounded disgusting
Same applies for the late-00s ringtone era and all the mediocrity that came out of that... and also there were a lotta hit songs in the middle of the 10s that are less than 10 years old and are DEAD already. shyt like "Milly Rock" and "Flicka Da Wrist"- maybe one day they'll come back around but right now, they make 2016 sound like it was looooong ago.But back to the main point, everything gets old, sometimes that's the dope part about it. It reminds you of how it was at the time and what that music represented in that era. Aging isn't a bad thing in hip-hop, especially if you can hear it in hindsight and totally get why it was so great at the time. I can listen to something like "I Ain't No Joke" or "Raw" and understand exactly why Rakim and Kane were some bad MFs in '87. And obviously, it's from that time but that doesn't take away from it. But there's also stuff from that time that came and went much faster because it wasn't for the long haul. This applies to just about any era we can go to.
now,and sometimes it's not even a matter of growing up and maturing cuz even folks who were your age at the time don't even fukk with it. Those 50s/60s "Joke book" style comedians used to fill up arenas nationwide and now they're considered some of the corniest comedy possible.
