2003-2008 might as well of been the dark ages of mainstream hiphop...and probably hiphop in general.
I blame the South.
2000-2002 was just weird. It felt like every song had cheap casino keyboards and bootleg/wannabe neptunes/swizz beats production.
The only real standouts at that time were just blaze, heatmakerz, and kanye...but then as the years past they had two billion copycats...especially kanye with the sped up vocals on dawn near every track
I can't blame the south cuz the South was at least offering something different. I would rather party to Lil Jon's singles than Cassidy's.
And for the record a lot of my favorite artists are from this era. But I pretty much only listened to G-Unit, Dipset and Clipse from 2002- 2005. Like everyday, all day with only a few exceptions
Hurts me to say it but the 90s babies/newer generation have better artists and more variety than we did...but the bar for talent is much lower now too
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