I feel like people who complain about today's music aren't doing so in good faith

Scustin Bieburr

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Musics as good as its ever been.

Modern r&b is as good as its ever been.
Solange's 2018 album was universally liked by critics, was popular, and had personal and empathetic lyrics.

Hip hop has never given you more variety.
  1. Injury reserve with the more experimental sound.
  2. Pop smoke with the drill
  3. Travis Scott with the auto tune
  4. Lil uzi vert and lil baby with that emo influence
  5. Young thug with the early screaming blues singer influence on tracks like harambe
  6. Tyler the creator keeping that Neptune's influenced sound alive while evolving it and pushing it
  7. Lil nas x trying to mix hop with country and it becoming a hit for the first time since Nelly collaborated with Tim Mcgraw.
  8. Meanwhile drake still gives people that familiar rap sound but he experiments with singing too.
  9. Kendrick dropped 3 albums that still hold up while sounding different.
R&B, jazz and soul as good as its ever been.
Masego had a hit record in 2017

Jon batiste literally won an Oscar and dropped an album in spring that has everything. Choir, bass, guitar solos, rapping, and the brass instruments going crazy.

H.E.R., Solange, and SZA representing for people who want those soulful female vocals and her is a legitimately gifted singer, writer and guitarist. Like yall just need to admit you're comfortable with your music collection and just keep it moving. Some research suggests people stop looking for music in their 30s just come out and say you're good instead of saying music is trash cause you know that shyt isn't true. You know your parents were shytting on the likes of Tupac and Wu tang and their parents clowned them for listening to Hendrix
 

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All facts, OP.

Here are some god-tier R&B albums since 2015 (just off the top of my head):

The Internet -- Ego Death
A Seat at the Table -- Solange
We Are KING -- We Are KING
Anderson .Paak -- Malibu
Phonte & Eric Roberson -- Tigallerro
Daniel Caesar -- Freudian
Moonchild -- Voyager
Gwen Bunn -- Safe Travels
Marie Dahlstrom -- Like Sand
Thundercat -- It is What it Is

I'm an 80s baby, and a super R&B connoisseur of the genre from 60s-present. Let's just say I've been eating extremely well with R&B in the modern streaming era. I hate how people my age (30s) think that everything has to sound like the 90s and early 00s. Music is supposed to evolve, and the old music is still available to enjoy. I have old school playlists on Spotify, but I also have lots of new heat.
 
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A lot of these people will admit they they don't listen to anything new but simultaneously know nothing new is good lol.
Plus that Jam & Lewis album just dropped. Two "superproducers" who enlisted plenty of "sangers" over 90's style production.
Watch that shyt still flop :pachaha:
 

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You're correct :yeshrug: as a multi genre music fan I'm overwhelmed with the amount of music that I have to keep up with. @Groovy Tony had a thread for this year and there were at least ten albums that were listed that were dope to me, and that was when this year started off slow. I'll admit that I enjoyed the 90s more but there's something for everyone out there these days.
 

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As far as rap goes Nope

Today's music has no skill just auto tone and recycled flow. If it weren't for cacs buying this trash, your favorite rapper would be broke.
How tf you saying that with a future avatar knowing that DS2 is a landmark album and mask off legitimately had people dancing and turning up and is now hitting again in 2021 4 years after its release because humanity fought back against a deadly virus and is winning.

Quavos flow is different from 21 savage whose flow is different from Freddie Gibbs who in turn sounds nothing like polo G or lil baby. Both future and Travis Scott use auto tune but Travis sounds very different from future. You know you're hearing a Travis Scott track less than 10 seconds into it.

And rappers actually care about if they can sing now and you got guys like childish Gambino being praised for his singing, rapping, and his overall lyrical content.

Hip hop sounds different now because they're mixing and matching different sounds more than ever. Its not easy to call someone like Rico nasty a rapper because she also has tracks where she sounds like an alternate version of Avril Lavigne.
 
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