Rap is probably only like 10% of my listening now.
I can't stomach most of the content anymore. I can barely listen to rappers even like Lamar and Cole due to the profanity and NWORD's in their music.
I've started listening to jazz heavy in the past 5 years.
I've even started listening to more and more gospel..
Southern soul music also:
Rap just doesn't do anything for my spirit. Had to move on.
Yea I really don't even like j Cole and Kendrick.... felt a bit like watered down underground artists I used to like. I can't relate to the N word being used so liberally anymore either especially when there's so substance around it. However, I was listening to an older song that was all hype and no substance, and I still got juiced from it because it has so much more talent.
Electronic music

foh , I wish I would bump that trash
Even tho it’s fallen off there’s still plenty of good hip hop hus kingpin,griselda,Mach hommy,Rome streetz, rigz,tha god fahim,nas still dropping dope shyt or Tyler the creator or a boogie wit da hoodie if you like melodious music
Used to listen to a lot of his the kingpin, but just about every song he says, "yo bytch...." and i even predicted it a few times. He fell off to me and I much prefer when he was in Tha Connection. Royale and Thunderball just hit differently.
Electronic music is the foundation for the first inception of what would become hip hop,before the term was invented. It was called space and the influence of bands like Kraftwerk,Yello orchestra, UK New wave/post punk bands made for a vast musical landscape you could pull from. That was effectively killed off by sampling legislation and a departure from the unspoken rules that encouraged artists to find new ways to be creative. House music in it's essence never abandoned those principles until the era of the superstar DJ became the vehicle to whitewash an entire genre that was basically a sibling to hip hop. I fell in love with house music in the 90s and watched it get whored out to the white boy network of DJ'S, promoters and record executives. The term underground nowadays just means white executives haven't found a way to vampire off your sound.
I actually saw a couple of black houses DJ'S and was wondering why tf they're not bigger and there is a channel that strictly promotes black house dj's . Lemme see if I can find it.
I've moved on from hiophop, but i'm trying find more artists like Silk Sonic, something fresh but kinda retro. Mature but fun.
Any recommendations?
I gotchu. Gimme a second.