Old heads, how many of you have accepted hip hop passed you by?

[MegaTronBomb!]

Old heads= 35 and up

How many have y'all just realized, that todays hip hop just isn't for you...and are ok with that? Not that it's so much worse, the rappers suck... but that it just wasn't for you

The majority of y'all seem like you're ok with staying in your lane...and don't worry about what's hot now, cause you're fine with being stuck in the mid 90's or late 80's.

I already know how many Big Mels are out there.... but what about the rest of y'all?

Some of you old decrepit posters drop a lotta gems on her.

@DANJ! used to have a blawg about the 90's.... but he don't be posting shyt no more
DanjLovesThe90s! | LET'S TAKE A SEC TO THINK BACK…

Just looking to see when y'all came to terms with this, and do y'all still purchase new music from the older rappers, or are y'all just bumping that old shyt?


And miss me with that "back in my day, hip hop wasn't gay.....cause your era is notorious for how many closeted homos it had....and y'all had Biggie.

 

[How Sway?]

 

[Rominati]

This shall be a glorious thread

 

[ALLiKNOWizPAIN]

....and y'all had Biggie.

 

[HamAndEgger]

What I've found more in this generation more so than generations prior is fans sorta just leaving Hip Hop as a pastime. In the 90s, you still had people from the 80s rocking to the current Hip Hop and even into the 2000s. But more so during this era where Mainstream Hip Hop has become a machine of redundant sounding music, it's natural for people to lean towards something else when the music has a lack of originality. You could listen to Snoop and Dre, and Tribe and Wu all at the same time and it was all different. Today, you can't tell the difference between a French Montana or Meek Mill record and or who's record it actually is. For the sake of the younger generation, this is their music and it ain't wrong to like it not to like it, it's your choice. But for me it always comes down to overall quality of the music just as I saw it back then. The 90s had sh*tty Hip Hop too.

 

[FRIED MASON]

Music today, not just Hip-Hop, sounds uninspired to me...

I'm not in the age bracket OP mentioned (29).

 

[OG Talk]

I'm 33 but I'll play along....


I don't feel like anything has passed me by because the majority of artists that I enjoy (and even the ones I don't enjoy but are still most successful) are all older than me...


Name the top 25 rappers under the age of 25...


Young heads.. How many of you have accepted that you will never be able to grab hip hop from the grasps of n1ggas like this..

There can only be a classification of "old heads" when they have been replaced by "young blood"...



Hip hop is no longer a young persons genre... It's just old wack n1ggas and old dope n1ggas...Prove me wrong and name the top 25 rappers under 25...

 

[O_Cyrus]

Hip Hop officially passed me by about 5 or 6 years ago. I am in the DC area and was changing the radio stations and all the stations that I turned to, 5 in total, had a Weezy song on. 2 of the stations had the same damn song. After fighting the desire to drive my car into a crowd of people as I would rather have the screams of the innocent dying around me in my ears than to listen to Weezy F Baby and his particular brand of mental retardation for another second I knew then that this era of hip hop was not for me. It is not 100% bad as there are some good artists out there but what percolates to the top and who is regarded as leaders of this era are not as strong, in any category, to those who came before them say pre 2000.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

i'm 33 as well and when i hear the stuff that comes out now i b makes me put on some scarface,400 degrees,early dmx,nas,jay-z i put on twista and some mid90's early 2000 no limit/cash money and some ja its funny how people would go at ja rule throat but co-sign drake

all you need now is a catchy beat and a hook

lyrics wtf is lyrics

so yea i admit its passed me by

these dudes waaaaay too nowadays anyway

 

[untaintedbeats]

I don't feel that way..I use to get mad about the current state of hip hoo (sometimes I still do) but mostly I just bump what I like..yes I bump a lot of late 80s and 90s hip hop but I bump new ppl too that fit my lane..like a joey bad$$ a skyzoo or elzhi and yes I will still coo nas..az..cormega and sean price when they drop..

 

[Nigerianwonder]

half of the mainstream rappers out are over 35.

 

[untaintedbeats]

Its a lack of respect for the culture...listen to the older cats and how they talk about those who came before...whether its moe dee bigging up melle mel or a nas and wu tang showing love to rakim.g rap or the juice crew...remember when the source did the issue back in the day with bambatta flash and kool herc on the cover...there was a feeling of I need to understand the history of this music I love..now cats will diss a Pioneer like it ain't nothing...it has hurt the artform

 

[cyence]

I won't be 35 for a few more years, but i can say hip-hop of today doesn't interest me at all. My desire for it slowly died away as the quality of music dropped further and further since the mid 2000's. I'll check for albums from the ones I grew up on and some new age stuff here and there, but for the most part these kids can have this trash that's evolved. Rap is like Nickelodeon to me now. I'm not trying to waste my time schooling a young nikka on hip-hop either, just have your fun in the sandbox kid

 

[How Sway?]

I'm only 22 and even I think Alot of music right now is garbage.

But I've been listening to rap music since I was like 8 but mostly b/c of my older cousins and sisters.

 

[kingdizzy01]

i stay in my lane and dont fall for all the trendy, dressed in feathers and skirts shyt. theres a few new school cats that still drop heat. but for the most part, i feel like todays hip hop is just pop culture and alot of younger people dont understand what that means because they grew up on the shyt that was crossing over to pop.