These lil nikkas have no respect for the history of the genre

[spliz]

This is exactly what I feel/think but couldn't put into words. People itt are only seeing it from our perspective and not being objective about the new generation

Nah fukk them. U don't have to agree with the older generation about everything but to be smug about fukkin actually rapping and u supposed to be a hungry RAPPER?? man when I was younger I would spit over ANYTHING to prove how nice I was. shyt. We wouldnt have that classic Redman and Method man Stung episode wit Luda rapping over that trash beat if he wasn't a hungry emcee.

 

[Wild self]

I like trap music and alot of new artist, but there's definitely been an over-saturation of the post-Future, "Money, drugs, hoes, clothes, party" trap rappers in the last 5yrs. Not only Future clones, but alot of Lil B "Stream of consciousness" flow rappers and alot of ASAP Clones.

Vice and Noisey loves promoting every and any rapper who does trap, points guns at a cam, and has eccentric hairstyles. Like another poster said, they're clones of clones. Lil Uzi Vert would've had me like "This guy is kinda out there, and that's kinda cool" if he came out 5yrs ago(that's how I reacted when I 1st heard ASAP). But in 2016, he sounds and looks like everyone else.

I feel like Trap music has jumped the shark, the same way 20yrs ago by 1996 G-Funk, Mafioso Rap, and other 90's genres were starting to jump the shark and ran their course. There's gotta be something else out there in 2016...

Trap music jumped the shark in 2013. What we seeing now is the hyper active scene on the verge of imploding on itself.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

We reached such heights within the genre that we were bound to come down. I think we really took MCs like Nas, Pac, Big, Scarface, Meth, P and all them for granted.

Anyway even in the 90s you would regularly have top notch MC pay homage to the elders. They didn't HAVE to, and they were all out to be the best. Whether it was sampling or Snoop doing Lodi Dodi or the Vapors for example. Difference is that they were confident enough in their own talent to pick up the torch and move the genre further. I think deep down a lot of these new rappers (not all) know damn well they don't have the skills so they gotta to go in a whole different direction and try to discard whatever came before. I doubt Jay, Rae or any other top 90s MC ever said anything disrespectful about older rappers : they didn't have to in order to assert themselves.

This isn't a good comparison. Jay, Rae and the rest of who you mentioned are not far removed from EPMD, Run DMC, PE, Rakim, etc. Enter the 36 Chambers dropped barely 5 years after It Takes A Nation of Millions and Jay-Z's first look on a song was in the 80s with Jaz-O. The gap between Uzi Vert and Raekwon is literally two decades. The actual analogous comparison is Lil Wayne/TI/Gucci/Lil B/ etc... Their influence on this new generation of rappers is obvious and the new generation readily acknowledges it.

 

[yardman]

97% of people get into music and decide to become artiste only for monetary gain. So you fukk up thinking that these respect their craft at all. They just tryna get fly, stunt, fukk ho's and buy expensive shyt. If they had respect for their craft or the music they wouldn't disrespect the dudes who passed the baton to em.

 

[Biscayne]

he's a rockstar

That's the bytch I want
So real and vulnerable

Doesn't sound bad....

But he sounds like everyone else. Like if this song came across me on Soundcloud, I'd forget about it. Not because it sounds bad, but because it doesn't stand out.

But I LOVE the cover art....

 

[Taadow]

This is exactly what I feel/think but couldn't put into words. People itt are only seeing it from our perspective and not being objective about the new generation

No, I don't agree...because we have been "the new generation" before!

Matter fact - we may have had it worse, because we were "the new generation" AND we had the nerve to
not be from The Mecca. You think third-tier West Coast acts got to be on the radio in New York in peak time??
They wasn't trying to hear about no 2nd II None! lmao

Hell, MC Breed had the #1 record in the country and he only got interviewed in NY because Erick Sermon
brought him on when he went...now imagine if they woulda put on a beat and he said "I don't wanna rock to that"...

I'm sayin' - we understand it. But the way to deal with that is to prove your worth.
Make them respect your craft.

 

[The Dust King]

content is way less intellectual and the bars are no where near the 90s and 00s

Now, rappers just rapping with little to no lyricism or bars.

much different than the new generation.

I agree

 

[Biscayne]

This isn't a good comparison. Jay, Rae and the rest of who you mentioned are not far removed from EPMD, Run DMC, PE, Rakim, etc. Enter the 36 Chambers dropped barely 5 years after It Takes A Nation of Millions and Jay-Z's first look on a song was in the 80s with Jaz-O. The gap between Uzi Vert and Raekwon is literally two decades. The actual analogous comparison is Lil Wayne/TI/Gucci/Lil B/ etc... Their influence on this new generation of rappers is obvious and the new generation readily acknowledges it.

Good point, the rappers today are paying homage to what was popping in the 00's. The 00's are to our generation, what the 80's was to Golden Age rappers in the 90's. But then again, even the 90's Golden Age rappers would pay homage to the 70's rappers. Sugarhill, The Furious Five, Afrika Bambatta weren't disrespected by 90's rappers. But then again, I don't see any rappers of today disrespecting 90's artist either...

 

[Taadow]

Nah fukk them. U don't have to agree with the older generation about everything but to be smug about fukkin actually rapping and u supposed to be a hungry RAPPER?? man when I was younger I would spit over ANYTHING to prove how nice it was. shyt. We wouldnt have that classic Redman and Method man Stung episode wit Luda rapping over that trash beat if he wasn't a hungry emcee.

Bruh I was legit thinkin' about Stung when I posted in here LMAO

I would WRECKED that chit, doe.

 

[Insensitive]

There's literally no rapper under 30 that has anything useful to say in their lyrics.

Be in a rush to condemn an entire generation of rappers because of one garbage one brehs.

 

[Aufheben]

ebro was corny here he went way harder on that kid Stro and that nikka can actually rap and has skills

and that freestyle was trash how the hell did they say that was dope?

 

[CHICAGOrilla]

OP tweekin Lil Uzi Vert bout to take ova, y'all gon B on his dikk like Future bet

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

ebro was corny here he went way harder on that kid Stro and that nikka can actually rap and has skills

and that freestyle was trash how the hell did they say that was dope?

I've never heard anything from Stro that was better than average, what is his best song IYO?

 

[Don Jesus]

fukk this guy

fukk all you corny pathetic lean drinking druggie fakkit rappers

enough is enough

white man keeps trying to turn hip hop into a culture of anti-intellectualism and you nikkas keep falling for it by gassing these dumb nikkas who all sound the same then try to dub it as "different" or "artistic"

fukk off

its all trash

get it through your thick skulls

rap needs to be destroyed and rebuilt because this shyt is a disgrace

"OGs dont respect the new era"

what the fukk is there to respect in the new era? the lack of blacks having their own labels? the lack of substance in their rhymes? the mumbling? the repetitive trap beats? cry me a fukking river

 

[Biscayne]

This is a great introspective post that most posters will look over.

The older gen shyts on the new gen constantly, so why the hell would they have respect for the older?

You could tell off rip Ebro wasn't fukking with him and was being a smart ass. In fact, most these type of rappers he always lowkey disrespectful to so of course Uzi gonna come at him like that

And Uzi was right. I don't want to hear him over some fukkin Premo beat. I listen to other rappers for that, not him.

Lil Uzi sounds like a clone. He's not bad at what he does, I just don't see what makes him standout over the others......

There's so much trap, and lean rap to consume, that I don't even know what makes one more marketable or worthy of shine over the other. So many Future clones out there. It's not even about the "My generation was better" I'm 26yrs old, so I was little bitty child during the Golden Age. So I'm not coming from the perspective of an old man. I'm coming from the perspective of someone who occasionally listens to Trap, and alot of new artist, and some of them just don't standout to me. And I get it, the samething happened in every other era of hip-hop. There were plenty of NWA Clones in the 80s and 90s.