Golden Era Boom Bap nostalgia is great
But it has never solely defined rap music in any era
While boom bap was going on
U had the bay area with too short and e40 doing funk influenced sounds
And miami doing fast paced bass booty music
Hell not all of the east coast was strictly boom bap
EPMD was straight G. Clinton styled funk
And you had mcees like Greg Nice and Breeze the ever flowing mcee whom were very simplistic in the lyrics and delivery
I think great bodies of work are based on BALANCE
NOT BOOM BAP exclusively