Are current rappers less smart than rappers of the past generations? Is that why the music is trash?

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[Dynamite James]

We had dumb shyt poppin off back in the day too. It's free money

Mind you the post is about the individuals being dumb. Not just the music.

 

[...o3]

...i've lived through wacka, early gucci, that dude lil b and them young money backyardigans.

oh yeah, no limit did happen on our watch. i petitioned k104 to stop playing they s**t....they laughed.

 

[Neuromancer]

They're less creative that's most of it and since intelligence plays a factor in creativity I'd assume the statement is true.

 

[Lord Beasley]

Mind you the post is about the individuals being dumb. Not just the music.

Okay. Let's pretend like we didn't have dumbass rappers in the 90s.

A lot of these acts play dumb for the masses because that's what sells in and out of music. Prime example: Latto isnt dumb, she's extremely articulate. but she plays a dumb ass-shaking broad well.

I don't think Ice spice is dumb either

 

[O.G.B]

Facts! This generation of hip hop artists are the most dumbed down rappers in the history of the genre.

 

[Neuromancer]

Okay. Let's pretend like we didn't have dumbass rappers in the 90s.

Who?

 

[shopthatwrecks]

We had dumb shyt poppin off back in the day too. It's free money

Ppl forget that

 

[I Really Mean It]

yes. listening to them speak tells you plenty. articulacy is one marker with which one’s intelligence can be measured.

 

[GilSho]

There have always been remedial nikkas in the rap game but there was always a sort of balance with a plethora of wordsmiths and orators at the top.

Kodak Black and NBA YoungBoy are two of the top rappers of their generation and both basically illiterate and on the spectrum.

One of the unfortunate consequences of the South dominating Hip Hop for the past 2 decades.

 

[Child_Of_God]

Nah. It's more of a work ethic and creativity issue.

There's no actual difference in intelligence. In fact, there's a number of cases in which "ignorant" sounding rappers have done well in school and conscious rappers have dropped out of school.

Key example being 2 Chainz (he did very in college and is very articulate in interviews) with the former and Nas with the latter.

 

[Nagarjuna]

Yeah. I thought that was obvious though

I saw an interview with q-tip from like 1994 and was blown away by his insight. I don't know how old he was but im sure in his early 20s.

Go back and look at interviews with Nas, pac, members of the wu, even the "gangster rappers" like ice cube. All of them younger and more articulate, and just clearly more aware of things then this new batch of rappers

 

[Mike Nasty]

Honestly I think these gen z rappers are just lazy as fukk and lack creativity,

lol that's what I would call dumb.

 

[Dynamite James]

 

[Dynamite James]

Yeah. I thought that was obvious though

I saw an interview with q-tip from like 1994 and was blown away by his insight. I don't know how old he was but im sure in his early 20s.

Go back and look at interviews with Nas, pac, members of the wu, even the "gangster rappers" like ice cube. All of them younger and more articulate, and just clearly more aware of things then this new batch of rappers

Exactly