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

[Devilinurear]

You know you are old when you dont like today's music. It is what it is let the youth shape the music as it always was. Let the older people listen to the music of there youth

 

[Kenny West]

Content wise, I think people really understate how diverse rap was back in the 90s and I'd even go as far to say the content isn't as diverse these days

Every region had Thier own sound plus I personally think there was a wider range of emotions. Pharcyde, phife dawg, skeelo, etc... Would rhyme about not getting women while also getting pretty emo about it.

Cella dwellas would rhyme about time travel, mastodons, casting spells, and some other weird shyt

Eminem was on his white trash druggie shyt so that ain't really nothing new

Bone thugs gave you that fast rap with melodies but other rappers let them be by not jacking their style

DMX was having conversations with demons and even did a Collab with Marilyn Manson

Reggie Noble had the supaman luva series

Leaders of the new skool were rapping about cutting class, getting dissed for not having a car, and the PTA

Organized confusion would make songs narrating what it was like to be a fetus or a white supremacist.

Then you could creep into the underground and here apani b emcee escaping from slavery, or last emperor battling marvel superheroes.


I could go on and on

nikkas rap about the exact same shyt but with different beats.

There's 3 major lanes

-Sadboy wavy weirdo music
- 808s and a catchy hook type basic industry shyt
-drill-trap fusion

 

[AquaCityBoy]

R&B is in a better place now that it was a few years ago during the height of the Bryson Tiller/PartyNextDoor/PnB Rock era tbh.

 

[I Really Mean It]

Modern rap is a dull hodgepodge of mindless garbage, plagued with repetitive lyricism - extendos, opps, packs, etc. - and zero reflection, music for people who have no critical thinking skills.

What passes as rap today is embarrassing.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

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.

All them songs you listed is depressing. Where's the up beat R&B?

If then artist so good why a lot of folks ain't heard of em?

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Ah yes I see the complaining bytches of thecoli already in this bytch
I noticed one thing
People try to put you fat, flabby, no taste having fakkits on to good music
And it’s still the same whiny bullshyt
Act like all 90s/early 2000 music was that good
Nothing but simp anthems and cheating songs
Don’t even get started on rap music
Not everything was funky fresh, fly, dope
To be a forum based on music
You bytches sure don’t know it or even try it
All you goofies jumped on Jimi Hendricks(in that thread last week) knowing damn well you were considered a whole ass white boy if you listened to him in the 80s/90s/00s
It just now became acceptable to listen to him
But this thecoli home of revisionist history and real nikkas
Y’all don’t listen to music
But merely skim through it

 

[Mastamimd]

All them songs you listed is depressing. Where's the up beat R&B?

If then artist so good why a lot of folks ain't heard of em?

Tigalerro, Malibu, and fukking Thundercat are depressing


fukk it man, just stay in the 90s. Y'all are worse than these kids that don't know anything about shyt from the past. And all of those are CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED albums. Goddamn it bruh.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Tigalerro, Malibu, and fukking Thundercat are depressing


fukk it man, just stay in the 90s. Y'all are worse than these kids that don't know anything about shyt from the past. And all of those are CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED albums. Goddamn it bruh.

Thundercat was originally is a group called suicidal tendencies.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

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.

Imma give all these a shot though. You really gotta look to find good artists

 

[Mindfield333]

These new rappers y’all like have zero lyrical skill, creativity and don’t even know how to freestyle or battle.

Shut your fukkin whore mouth.

I don’t know what this has to do with making good music tbh. But there’s good music by skilled rappers.

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

All them songs you listed is depressing. Where's the up beat R&B?

If then artist so good why a lot of folks ain't heard of em?

First of all, those are ALBUMS I listed; not songs.

Second of all, do you know how the music industry works? Do you think the most talented people are the most famous? A lot of folks haven’t heard of these people because the masses only listen to what they are spoonfed.

Edit: There’s upbeat shyt out there. Try Anderson Paak. I’ve always been a slow song nikka

 

[Mindfield333]

I listen to new shyt all the time and the majority of it is trash.


This "you aint looking hard enough" is a myth lil nikkas tell themselves at night to cope with the garbage thats getting hyped by their peers.

I haven't heard Solanges album since my ex 4years ago, that shyt was only celebrated by the mimosa sipping fedora wearing feminist twitter types. People wasn't fukking with that album in the streets, sorry to say. Its something critics would love

How is this a myth? I don’t hear folks talking about Oddisee but I’ve attended 3 of his shows from like 2015 - 2018. And he makes great music to me.
this is true for a lot of artists across genres

I don’t think folks realize how “the machine” and promotion can work for an artist. And when you don’t have that backing it’s really a grassroots battle for ears.

 

[Dolo]

nikkas just miss being young lmao we get good new music every week

 

[BangBike]

 

[Mindfield333]