Charlamagne: Hip Hop's Having Another Golden Era

[Elle Driver]

Been stagnant since '08. Golden era is upon us because these 30 or 35 year old rappers are starting to phase out with their tired raps.

These 20 year olds from Cali and Chicago are take over because they are bringing more energy and creativity compared to these 40 year old garbage rappers from the south.

Era always start with 20 years olds taking over. Ask Nas. Ask B.I.G.

I agree, but unfortunately these "20 year olds" just aren't cutting it quality wise.

 

[Madvillain]

No. Not at all.
shyt I thought we just had a discussion on how weak this new class was.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

I can't even hate on that. There's a lot of music I don't agree with, but you can't deny that dudes are being honest with themselves. This is like the era of the regular dude. 80s had the super battle mc, 94 had the conscious hood nikka, 98 had the grimey hood lyrical nikkas, plus the conscious nikkas, now it's the era of the regular dude. The honor roll student who grew up in the hood, the nikka from the suburbs, the weed head who was an army brat. They speaking on their life, which in a way is a reflection of ours. None of us sold crack in the projects or are owed a hundred favors by noreaga. I can appreciate that honesty, same way I could appreciate the honesty of a tribe called quest or de la soul, who were just regular dudes who rapped.

 

[Lala718]

you have right to your opinion.

rap is good to me right now, but i dont take this shiit as serious as yall do
i'm not up here trying to remember years when stuff came out and shiit

I don't take this too seriously, but I love o. I just remember those days. I'm good with dates!!!

shyt I thought we just had a discussion on how weak this new class was

lol we did, now they embracing this new sh*t. When its wack. These n*gga are always flip floppin!!

 

[stealthbomber]

Idk breh
I thought last year was dope as fukk
So many dope tapes and albums... It was beautiful time for me

what dropped last year? i just dont remember anything special

 

[Elle Driver]

I can't even hate on that. There's a lot of music I don't agree with, but you can't deny that dudes are being honest with themselves. This is like the era of the regular dude. 80s had the super battle mc, 94 had the conscious hood nikka, 98 had the grimey hood lyrical nikkas, plus the conscious nikkas, now it's the era of the regular dude. The honor roll student who grew up in the hood, the nikka from the suburbs, the weed head who was an army brat. They speaking on their life, which in a way is a reflection of ours. None of us sold crack in the projects or are owed a hundred favors by noreaga. I can appreciate that honesty, same way I could appreciate the honesty of a tribe called quest or de la soul, who were just regular dudes who rapped.

The problem is, the new school cats are lyrically wack, and the entire industry is saturated with wack nikkas so it's like a win for hip hop when you find someone who's actually pretty fukking dope.

At that time you had nikkas that had talent, didnt have to rely on gimmicks and commercial sales and shyt. De La Soul's "Me, Myself and I" is a fukking classic.

 

[Pop123]

he said this same thing when Lupe was on the breakfast club and Lupe laughed in his face, lmao. I'm doing the same watching this dumb ass clip. Charlamagne my nikka but shut the fukk up forever

 

[FreshFromATL]

Hip-Hop had 3. '88, '94, '01.

New eras always begin when the 20 year olds START take over.

Ask Nas.

Ask B.I.G.

Ask the Entire Philly/ATL/Harlem collective in '03.

This is why its hard to ignore the push Cali and Chicago is making. These 40 year old rappers from the south are not cutting it, their raps are so tired.

You make a goof argument but why you keep talking bout Chicago? And I hope you ain't referencing no damn Chief Keef

 

[spliz]

I can't even hate on that. There's a lot of music I don't agree with, but you can't deny that dudes are being honest with themselves. This is like the era of the regular dude. 80s had the super battle mc, 94 had the conscious hood nikka, 98 had the grimey hood lyrical nikkas, plus the conscious nikkas, now it's the era of the regular dude. The honor roll student who grew up in the hood, the nikka from the suburbs, the weed head who was an army brat. They speaking on their life, which in a way is a reflection of ours. None of us sold crack in the projects or are owed a hundred favors by noreaga. I can appreciate that honesty, same way I could appreciate the honesty of a tribe called quest or de la soul, who were just regular dudes who rapped.

There was FAR more versitility in those golden eras and ur completely oversimplifying it fam..there was literally something for everybody and people was dropping high quality to classic ORIGINAL music across the board...no matter what kind of hip hop was ur favorite...not sayin there wasn't any gimmicks or biters or bad music...but the quality output was FAR greater and it's not even close...at all..damn near all of the greatest rappers to ever touch a Mic came from those eras...there's absolutely NOTHING like that going on right now...

 

[Danie84]

There's only one Golden Era, these new cats needs to define their own era

 

[Master Teacher]

i think the next generation will be a lot better than this one
this like the De La Soul Tribe Era, where cats had rap skills but there was no real edge on the music
hip hop is missing that edge, I can't feel none of these new joints even though the skills are there
production is missing a lot of feeling and is kinda robotic, and to be real none of this rappers talk about
anything relevant to these days and times. It's like they have nothing to rap about so they just rap

 

[OG Talk]

Charlamagne stays trolling on this topic..

I remember when Lupe was on Breakfast Club and he said we are in a new golden era of lyricists and he cited 2 Chainz as an example...



Lowkey what he's really trying to do is get the real emcees to diss this new generation and create a culture war for radio ratings...