The Electric Lady
Post and toke
I've been listening to hip hop since around 1994 when I got heavy into radio and I don't think hip hop has been better - mainstream wise - since 1996-1997.
2000-2005 were absolutely terrible for me, rap-wise. I gave up on the genre entirely back in 2002, it took the fresh sound of College Dropout in 2004 - which I didn't listen to until 2005 - that really brought me back to the genre. Remember when 50 Cent and his candy ass promised to put a end to rappers singers on the hook?
Good luck with that. 
:sabu: Remember the days of crunk? 
I thought that shyt was whack at the time, but the rap that took over the radio waves was so fukking abhorrent I had no idea how it was ever popular, and thankfully we were saved with the occasional great like Outkast. 
But 2002-2004 were nothing compared to 2005 -2009 which are objectively the worst years of hip hop I've ever seen. Ringtone rap, fukking Laffy Taffy, T-Pain, Lil Wayne's climax in popularity and stupid niccas saying he was top 5 dead or alive; I thought hip hop was dead. 
But in come a new generation and I'm liking almost every song on the radio now for the first time since maybe 1999 or early 2000. This stuff is fresh. I'll take Mackloemore over T-pain any day of the fukking week. When people think of modern rap, I think it starts with Drake, J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, some others, and they have some bangers, stuff I can actually listen to and not be embarrassed.
Hip hop is in an upswing, and we all have every reason in the world to remain positive for its future given the current output of current famous emcees. We have paid our sins and we are reaping the benefits, brehs.
2000-2005 were absolutely terrible for me, rap-wise. I gave up on the genre entirely back in 2002, it took the fresh sound of College Dropout in 2004 - which I didn't listen to until 2005 - that really brought me back to the genre. Remember when 50 Cent and his candy ass promised to put a end to rappers singers on the hook?
Good luck with that. :sabu: Remember the days of crunk? I thought that shyt was whack at the time, but the rap that took over the radio waves was so fukking abhorrent I had no idea how it was ever popular, and thankfully we were saved with the occasional great like Outkast. But 2002-2004 were nothing compared to 2005 -2009 which are objectively the worst years of hip hop I've ever seen. Ringtone rap, fukking Laffy Taffy, T-Pain, Lil Wayne's climax in popularity and stupid niccas saying he was top 5 dead or alive; I thought hip hop was dead. But in come a new generation and I'm liking almost every song on the radio now for the first time since maybe 1999 or early 2000. This stuff is fresh. I'll take Mackloemore over T-pain any day of the fukking week. When people think of modern rap, I think it starts with Drake, J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, some others, and they have some bangers, stuff I can actually listen to and not be embarrassed.
Hip hop is in an upswing, and we all have every reason in the world to remain positive for its future given the current output of current famous emcees. We have paid our sins and we are reaping the benefits, brehs.
