Hip Hop is not wack these days, its just going over your heads cuz yall old and we young.

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Back in my day beats were more than just 808s

What's up with skinny jeans

Hip hop is dead

 

[hu3ypdadon]

T/S doesn't have enough melanin is opinion is not valid

 

[southpawstyle]

Thats not the only hip hop being put out now



There's a lot of shyt with depth if you still search for music. Some people just love to hate

 

[5star]

T/S doesn't have enough melanin is opinion is not valid

Ol boy said he got black in him but he mostly mexican .




How you gonna make a thread saying shyt is going over people heads


And you don't even understand race.


Guess your own race went over your head

 

[be back in a bit]

Nothing going over our heads because of age, that logic is terrible. The longer you enjoy/study an art, the more you know about it and the more you appreciate it. This is the type of shyt rappers were making in their 20s in the 90s.





These new mainstream rappers are immature as fukk and just embarrassing in comparison.

 

[desp]

listen to lil yachty, lil uzi vert and playboi carti. u cannot tell me they arent dope as fukk

u cant

 

[Insensitive]

im 24 and can easily say that this generation hip hop is wack as fukk. all those dudes u mentioned are fukking wack and retarted

good beats, yes
good melodies, yes
whip music, yes

classic material and mind blowing lyrics with groundbreaking and original production? nah

will you ever read a review of any of their albums quoting it as a 5 star classic with genius creativity? nah

will any of this music be mentioned amongst the greatest of all time hip hop music, not even fukking close.

low level, dumb lyrics about dumb shyt

I disagree with this.
There's several rappers making music RIGHT NOW that I'd put up against
any era of Hip-Hop whether that's lyricism or production only one or two can be found
on the radio, the rest of em are at work on smaller independent labels.

 

[u mad son?]

I disagree with this.
There's several rappers making music RIGHT NOW that I'd put up against
any era of Hip-Hop whether that's lyricism or production only one or two can be found
on the radio, the rest of em are at work on smaller independent labels.

name em fam

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

name em fam

U should first ask him what defines Mainstream. He's probably not old enough 2 understand that there was a total difference back in the day, that was pretty much exclusive to The South & The Mid-West.

 

[Insensitive]

name em fam

Kendrick Lamar
Oddisee
Skyzoo
Elzhi
Black Milk
The Black Opera
Blu
Dalek
Killer Mike
Mr. Muthafukkin Exquire
Big K.R.I.T.
Lupe Fiasco (some duds in his discog but his best work is genuinely good.)
Royce Da 5'9" (albums aren't the greatest but lyrically, I think he can hang with just about anyone...)
Joe Budden
Crooked I
Horseshoe Gang
Talib Kweli
KA
Supastition (Just dropped an album again last year after a LONG hiatus.)
Vakill (been three years since his last album but lyrically and production wise it was banging !)
Killah Priest
Scarface

Some older rappers, some younger rappers, some in between but generally they're all artists doing
hot shyt NOW. IMO. And I could name more but I'm not near my music collection.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

good beats and melodies >>>>>>>>>> that other imaginary shyt.

But like you basically said, you don't even expect people to be riding with it 2 years from now. Textbook disposable music. it'll be here today and gone tomorrow.

 

[Cynic]

I just turned 30 last month. What you're saying is partially correct but the music is still relatively trash. The quality and skill level of today's artist is lacking and that's undeniable. Our ears are just used to better music. We not only grew up with good Hip Hip but the entire music scene was just top tier. There was no debate on "who's trash" because nobody you heard that was a major player was trash. Everybody had some type of skill. Now the bar is set so low you have above average rappers being labeled as Hip Hop messiahs when they're really not that special when you but em under the magnifying glass.

This is revisionist garbage... We let Shaq drop an album

 

[arel]

tha tour p1 is genuinely brilliant but nothing else done by any1 in op has any meaningful significance or top level quality.

but there is a reasonable # of artists worth checking for rn, its just that # is at an all time low and i wouldn't bank on any of those # dropping a fully realized masterpiece.

and that's a sorry state of affairs and why i think rap is at a low ebb

 

[u mad son?]

Kendrick Lamar
Oddisee
Skyzoo
Elzhi
Black Milk
The Black Opera
Blu
Dalek
Killer Mike
Mr. Muthafukkin Exquire
Big K.R.I.T.
Lupe Fiasco (some duds in his discog but his best work is genuinely good.)
Royce Da 5'9" (albums aren't the greatest but lyrically, I think he can hang with just about anyone...)
Joe Budden
Crooked I
Horseshoe Gang
Talib Kweli
KA
Supastition (Just dropped an album again last year after a LONG hiatus.)
Vakill (been three years since his last album but lyrically and production wise it was banging !)
Killah Priest
Scarface

Some older rappers, some younger rappers, some in between but generally they're all artists doing
hot shyt NOW. IMO. And I could name more but I'm not near my music collection.

Now how many of them have made classic albums?

Scarface, MAYBE killah priest .... Blu, ill give him below the heavens. The rest of em, yeah they may spit lyrical, but classic albums? hell nah man

classics im talking:
INFAMOUS
OB4CL
LIQUID SWORDZ
CHRONIC/2001
ILLMATIC
ETC

come on, lyrical yeah, but you need more than that to create classic

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

This is revisionist garbage... We let Shaq drop an album

We? nikka I never listened to anything Shaq put out musically. And of all examples you choose Shaq to refute my point?