I feel the same way OP. I'm over Hip Hop too. I've been listening to Hip Hop oldies and other stuff lately. Since I started listening to Jazz (I love Miles Davis), and found that I like it much more than I thought I would, rap sounds immature and lame to me now. Rediscovering older black genres has been exciting and as crazy as it sounds it has been good for my mood too.
You should've been doing that from the jump.
Funny thing is people feel the same way about Jazz music.
That it's a dying genre that's filled with people who're academics and
that it only appeals to musicians.
Of course I don't feel that way, despite being a musician but

that's how some people feel.
Hip-Hop is trash right now,
The apologist and excuse makers on this site want me to dig through 1000 WACK rappers to find ONE ABOVE AVERAGE rapper
NAH
You can love hip-hop and still call it out on it's bullshyt, as a matter of fact by not supporting the vast majority of this bullshyt I feel like I'm doing whats best for the culture.
ALSO the majority of rappers yall big up as alternatives to listen to when convos like this come up are usually AVERAGE and NOTHING SPECIAL.
VERY FEW GREAT RAPPERS OR PROJECTS HAVE DEBUT WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
Hip-hop is stale.
A lot of great rappers have dropped projects but this is same the website
that has threads where people ask "Who is so and so ?" whenever they drop a project
either that or y'all laugh at it not going platinum.
This isn't a NEW trend, I remember when cats were saying "Who is Kendrick
Lamar ? He'll never pop ! No one likes music like THAT", then the dudes second
album and first one on a major goes platinum.
Let's be real, the vast majority of the booth has no real connection to Hip Hop.
They don't feel the music like they claim they do :
Otherwise downloading a mixtape, which only takes a few minutes if you've got a decent connection,wouldn't
be seen as some amazingly arduous task.
Otherwise watching a music video, which only takes a few seconds to load if you've got a decent connection,
wouldn't be seen as something difficult or too hard.
Otherwise just READING a thread on The Coli wouldn't be seen as some daunting task that's tantamount
to visiting the moon.
Hip Hop isn't trash, it's these fake fans who claim to "love" Hip Hop but can't tell you a
label that isn't a major.
It's these fake fans who can only complain about and name five rappers but claim to love this shyt

It's these fake fans who say "What came out this year ?", despite over a dozen albums getting
stickied in the booth.
It's the dudes who can run into a Nicki Minaj thread to complain about Nicki Minaj and Hip Hop but are
nowhere to be found when Blu or Dom Kennedy or Oddisee or some other rapper drops a project.
It's like people forget that Media Take Out threads do more numbers than albums on a website
dedicated to music and sports
