Finally coming to grips that I'm no longer a Hip Hop fan

[macadomusic]

It's waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy too much music out there to not be a fan of hip hop. U might be lazy cuzz

 

[Archimedes]

My favorite rappers these days are like cormega, killer mike and no malice.

I need them grown man bars but a side of fukkery every here and then is my guilty pleasure.

 

[RTF]

Sometimes it goes like that my g.

To me there's lots of good work out there. But I guess I like Southern hip hop.

INteresting you like 90's dancehall but don't like Migos, Future, Thug etc. I think what Young Thug does is similar to what dancehall artists have always done. Beenie, Buju and them. Their general pocket isn't exactly rapping or singing - somewhere in the middle but clearly neither if that makes sense. And for me, it takes me a few spins to understand them both.

I'm lucky - I never get bored of new music. There's always something out there I find exciting. I like Cole but I don't find his work nearly as interesting as Young Thug. I like a lot of the new producers. I wish more of them did RnB. I like Jeremih and Ty$. I like Janelle Monae & FKA Twigs. Consistently new music I can rock with.

 

[The Dust King]

Nah, see that's the thing....I can listen to those artists no problem. I copped the new cnn album, copped deeply Rooted...felt that hip hop spirit back but music comes and goes now. There's no new artists keeping me interested. It's too easy to throw on war report or poverty paradise. I have no problem staying in that lane, but outside of Cole and kendricknew wave...can't remember the last time I listen to a whole record and enjoyed it.

I understand your plight much better now. To be honest i myself am going through the same thing but just not on such a grand scale as you.

The truth has already been written in here, your not NOT a fan of hiphop anymore you jus have grown and matured and this generations music doesnt resonate unless it contains mature elements.

Your fine breh dont worry. This is a common phase.

The thread title though is wild flagrant, you cant cop CNN newest album and kendrick album then say you not a fan of hiphop anymore.

Thas blasphemous as hell and a contradiction.

The opposite actually rings true, your SO hiphop that the rest of the world aint caught up to ya yet.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I still enjoy discovering and listening to tons of great new music. I guess if you expect the traditional media channels to serve you that goodness you are fukked. These days you can stream and curste playlists and discover so much music online and tailor your listening experience to your tastes. I personally don't listen to a lot of mainstream music because I can't related to the lyrics.

 

[Kingshango]

Stop listening to mainstream hip hop only. You literally have the Internet in the palm of your hands, use it to find something you like.

And FWIW, I'm the same age as you OP.

 

[CrimsonTider]

No one gives a damn

 

[BarackStar]

I'm 27 and I've come to terms that the genre is trash in the sense that very few releases are classics and even fewer new rappers are much more than caricatures trying to pretend to be the guys they watched 10 yrs ago. There's plenty of decent shyt out unless you a nerd pretentious type nikka

 

[hex]

I been into rap since '84 and can't ever imagine not listening to it. Regardless of how many wack rappers are out. This is my generation's music, I can't ever turn my back on it.

Fred.

 

[Carter G. Hoodson]

I'm 27 and I've come to terms that the genre is trash in the sense that very few releases are classics and even fewer new rappers are much more than caricatures trying to pretend to be the guys they watched 10 yrs ago. There's plenty of decent shyt out unless you a nerd pretentious type nikka

Damn, you got me there......

Stream? I'm not paying money for that shyt

 

[Ineedmoney504]

27 ain't old tho, I'm going on 26 this year and I know I haven't listened to half the classics from the 80s and 90s. Not to mention there are a bunch of artist putting out really good music.

 

[Zero]

Fake Deep nikka Thread

Facts.

If you 27 with the same opinions as a nikka in his 40s-50s...you're trying too hard

 

[Cynic]

I'm 27, live through early 90's music when the sound and lyrics were there. Of course you had your random fad songs but we live in a era today where the majority of the records out today are just awful. The lyrics make no sense, can't gain anything informative from it, every artist sound the same and there's no real artistry in the sound. It just gives me a headache.

I grew up mostly on soul, funk, jazz and R&B....hip hop used to be an extension of that for me. My ear for music just cannot take what's out here today. I can do a cover on my keyboard with Ghosts all that I got is you but a drake and future cover is laughable.

For the Elder statesmen in hip hop, how do you manage to still support it?

You are just judging modern music by 90s standards.... this ain't the 90s

so why judge it as such ?

 

[Carter G. Hoodson]

Yes, but you can debate an era. You can debate the 70's soul,funk, R&B to 90's R&B....and cannot be mad either way. The musicianship was still there even though the decade changed. Today's hip hop is just straight trash in terms what the mainstream promotes.

You are just judging modern music by 90s standards.... this ain't the 90s

so why judge it as such ?

The era was flawless in my eyes

This song sums up my feelings towards music

 

[666 ReVeNGe 666]

I feel the same.

We old breh