Do y’all actually like Hip Hop?

[Tetris v2.0]

I'm at the point where I'm drowning in new enough music (or stuff on backlog) and unable to keep up, honestly. Even older stuff I slept on is easier to access with YouTube and music streaming. This is honestly the greatest era ever to be listening to music, let alone hip-hop which has been at the forefront of pop culture since it started.

That said, a lot of new shyt is trash. A lot of the music being pushed is corny and reeks of agenda. Something being popular isn't automatically worthy of my time or interest.

I'm happily when it comes to some new shyt out

 

[En Sabah Nur]

If you don’t like lil baby then you’re not going to like a lot of mainstream rap right now because he is mainstream rap at this moment

That's what she's been telling you the whole thread

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Plus people act like we liked EVERYTHING that was out when we were growing up. I actually stopped checking for new Hip Hop like that around 99-00, when I was 15-16.
People like Ye, Little Brother, DOOM & Madlib brought me back. But I bet a lot of youngsters aren't any different, some are just defensive and feel like they have to defend everything current

Completely agree with these, and it radiates with the younger folks on this board. They get extremely defensive that some of the artists they champion as dope or the next “legends” simply don’t truly have the juice like that. There’s a lot of current hot artists and bubbling dudes that wouldn’t make it to their second single, much less second album in the 90s, and possibly even the early 00s. There’s a load of artists today with multiple projects that in a different era, they’re nothing but Jibbs, V.I.C, and Stagga Lee, and would’ve faded away quickly. Yesteryears mediocre and wack artists got laughed at and shunned out of the game. Current mediocre and wack dudes have major staying power due to massive social media use, and low standards by the consumer.

 

[L. Deezy]

*currently riding to a 70s and 80s soul playlist*

Naw..

My wife listens to current hip hop...

 

[ILLMMORTAL]

I agree that a lot of the conversations here are more bias toward the 90's and early 00's, but you can't seriously think that Hip Hop is bigger now than it has ever been. Even versatility would be an argument.

Would be the closing argument..... The kill shot...... The nail in the coffin,etc

 

[ILLMMORTAL]

If you're a fan of the current hip hop scene. Help those of us who don't rock with it learn about who we need to be checking for

1. Who are the best lyricists in this generation
2. Who has the best flow/delivery
3. Who are the best pure spitters
4. Who are the best producers
5. Who is the best live performer
6. Who has the best catalog
7. Who is the most creative/has the best concepts
8. Who has the best videos/visuals
9. Who has the best content/message
10. Who is the best group

Put the old heads on some new music

I Pass

 

[Sad Bunny]

that’s fine but if this thread is pointed to mainstream rap then blueface is a 1 hit wonder and unless you’re comparing him to someone like Young Joc then he should be brought up



I listen to everything old and new. I just don’t waste time complaining about music that I don’t like.

you won’t find me in a Griselda thread talking about New York hiphop is trash now

and I don’t think Griselda represents all of New York hiphop

Good point.

Some of these Nas stans are lames.

They come in every thread and complain about artists they don't like.

Some literally have been saying negative shyt for 9 years in every Wayne thread I've ever made. It's weird as fukk.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Yes. To me it's like movies or something. You've got your favorite movies from your childhood that have that nostalgia feel, and serve as a foundation. For me that's 90s/early 00s rap. Then you have the movies you saw when you first got a car and could drive to the theater yourself, or watched in your college dorm, which also serve as a foundation for your taste. To me that's the 2007-2011 type shyt....Spitta, Kdot, Danny Brown, KRIT, Roc Marci, etc. And then you have shyt that came out after you were established. Which you still appreciate and can even love...but it doesn't often resonate as much as the foundational stuff.

Like kids today...there are people today who got their first kiss while listening to Drake, or NBA Youngboy. Kids who fukked for the first time while listening to Jhene Aiko. Kids who drove their first car today while bumping Sheisty. 20 years from now those songs and artists will still resonate with them deeply because they're tied directly to memories. New shyt won't hit the same.

 

[NZA]

might be a good idea to ask today's artists if they love hip hop

 

[How Sway?]

The booth always skewed older.

Even when i first joined that was the case, although there were definitely enough of us young guns who kept this place somewhat current

But most of the younger dudes then are approaching 30 or already turned 30 and with registration closed, you get more threads reminiscing about the old days and shytting on new music.

Plus lets be real, is most of this new shyt even worth talking about for real?
Outside of these rappers' backstory and street cred, the actual music is

I dont think they give a f*** about hiphop

Shyt dry as hell outhere

 

[TripleAgent]

*currently riding to a 70s and 80s soul playlist*

Naw..

My wife listens to current hip hop...

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope she's really young and REALLY fine.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Get this corny ass white boy thread the fukk outta here

Corny ass shyt

 

[L. Deezy]

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope she's really young and REALLY fine.

Lol

 

[Formerly known as...]

I'm at the point where Little brother last album sounded incredibly fresh and amazing but listening to people like A boogie or whoever else just sounds generic and wack to me.

No substance in it. To me they're making music and rapping, it isn't the real essence in there.

Like cooking with 0 seasoning

 

[bordeaux]

i dont love everything but i do think theres alot of dope music being made by modern artists. i dont understand why waste the time and energy just to diss and complain in every thread.