Has today's trash music softened your opinions on the commercial shyt from the past?

[SirBiatch]

90's critics tried to say Nas went "commercial" and "soft" with singles likes "if i ruled the world" and "street dreams". lmao

they were right, though. If you compare Illmatic vs IWW, one is clearly softer and more pandering than the other.

You know what I love about the 90s? The criticism. It was mostly on point. We had actual journalists with brains who kept it mostly 100. And that made the quality better.

Now in today's woat era, nobody analyzes hip hop anymore and we glorify mediocrity because we're too scared to be different.

 

[C-Styles]

That's why they call it CLASSIC. A classic is something that you let breathe for a decade or some and then judge the impact from there. People wanna be calling everything instant classic, that's not how it works. The feeling you're getting now watching these videos is because the songs stood the test of time. Also what made these songs good was the fact that the beats we're a variety of everything. Mostly everything wasn't sounding the same like today's "club songs" with the trap sh*t going on and no melody or soulfulness. Sh*t even Reggaeton stepped it up and made their beats with more melody and different sounds.

Music from even 10 years ago, 15, sounds good because it was what it was, good music! Actual singing on the hooks unlike these mumbling autotune rappers that do a poor excuse for a hook. It's like now if you're a GREAT SINGER they don't want you, smh, that's how artist like Post Malone prosper today.

low-key 03 had the most soulful sounding commercial singles out and yall didn't realize it till years later

<--- DEF CLASSIC

and lowkey if AZ would have released this as a single, it would have been one for him

 

[Rayzah]

Power of nostalgia is power man....


People hatin' on Young Thug and club bangers now will be saying the same shyt years from now...

















@ that thought....

naw man these dudes just suck that bad, you have to go back to the 2000's or 90's to find some good shyt.. these dudes aint trying to make classics they trying to have enough radio play to do some shows and make some money. They don't care to have long legendary careers, its dumb cause our legends Dre (billionare) jay (close to a billi or just really rich) em (hundreds of millions) 50, nas all those guys have made hundreds of millions 20 years later

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

breh get you up on that new Ja Rule

This song/video was dope then & now
R Kelly throwing shoes at bytches

 

[A.V.]

breh get you up on that new Ja Rule

BREH! That is legit my favorite Ja song right there..i was the only nikka bumpin that R.U.L.E. back in the day...i can bump this song all day.


These new nikkas got Mase sounding hard like The Infamous

LOW KEY R.U.L.E. was a damn good album. As much as I wanted to stan 50, I couldn't front, R.U.L.E. had bangers, singles, and a few heavy tracks. Lloyd OWNED that album and put it over the top. His hook on "Where I'm From" mixed with Ja whining on the beat used to have a nikka on rainy days breh




We really need to be nicer to Ja, guise...

 

[Newportbox]

You're just being nostalgic for yesteryear's trash.
Trash is trash......... Regardless.

 

[3rdWorld]

The advent of mp3s began the decline..
When it was only so much room in a CD store for music, garbage didnt get in so much..
I saw a post here on Hammer recently and realized how much of a great performer and artist he really was.

 

[RTF]

Back in the day you were dusty and you are dusty now.

I used to bump that jiggy Ja Rule ish with the Mos ish, with the Styles ish.

Today that Thugger is getting burn next to Chance

 

[I love Latina women]

Real talk. Some of this new music just sounds so bad to me that the music I thought was trash back in the day all of a sudden sounds good to me now.

shyt like Ja Rule(post 3:36), Nelly(post CG), etc sounds mad organic in comparison to the Young Thugs, Ilovemakonnens, etc of today.

Post some examples of songs that you might have never listened to when they were in season but this new shyt makes sound great.

this joint sounds like real music compared to today..fukkin baby bash and akon ..

5 stars, dap and i tried to +rep but i can't because i already did recently

but i was just gon make this thread today

i was listenin' to method man's wack ass prequel album and i was thinkin' to myself, "this shyt still sounds 100 times better than the majority of commercial hip hop of today" and the prequel was a wack album by meth's standards too

 

[SirBiatch]

You're just being nostalgic for yesteryear's trash.
Trash is trash......... Regardless.

nah. Standards go up and down.

It's possible for what was considering 'trash' in the past to be better now because standards are lower.

 

[RocPG]

even a joint like this that is panned by mostly everyone...while i've always liked this song it sounds even better to me now because this new commercial shyt is so ass to me. this shyt could get labeled as "real hiphop" by fans today lol

trash video with the shiny suits and everything but Jay was spitting flames and the flow was on point!!!

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Yup but some joints were wack and still wack today like Candy shop. I did hate on G-unit in the 2000s because it was the cool thing to do but now for me a lot of their shyt bumps hard in the whip.

Back then my cousins got me on that hate everything commercial bandwagon when I was younger because they were hipsters, in hindsight a lot of it was nice musically.

I also hated on Wayne and Ross in 2009. Came to my senses and realised Rozay was nice as hell.

Stopped becoming a victim of group think or at least being influenced by my cousins even when I was trying to be different just to be different. Now I'm forming my own conclusions on what's nice and what's wack.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

No, because I was damn near grown then and listening to dope shyt. This new shyt has better production.
back then the beats AND the lyrics were wack. No redemption.

 

[Harry B]

Cats been repeating this thread since 1993

 

[MoneyBags]

Yall nikkas bugging with ja rule, son was always wack. Did he make a song or two that I liked? Of course but dude was a garbage rapper with no real skills